SET

Descrizione Generale

SET is a project proposal designed to enable within 30 months at least 150 European Textile SMEs in a minimum of 7 countries to improve their energy efficiency, achieving tangible and quantifiable economic and resource-efficiency benefits. SET addresses this dynamic industrial sector where the cost of energy is often higher than the labour cost and an average of 15%-20% of all costs of textile SMEs based in Western Europe are based on energy. All the contents developed (national energy contexts and energy efficient measures for machineries, technologies and equipment for textile manufacturing) within the first 8 months will be assembled into the project key result: the ESES (Energy Saving and Efficiency Scheme) which is a package of software and knowledge used by SMEs with support of the partners’ competences. In a first 10-months deployment phase joint-teams made up of technical partners and business leaders are assembled to deliver the ESES at 50 companies’ premises with customised assistance. In a second 12-months deployment phase, the ESES is improved based on lessons-learned from field applications and, more importantly, further 100 companies are trained and assisted to achieve energy efficiency and reduce their energy bills. The SET implementation will largely benefit from two on-going related projects: SESEC and ARTISAN whose results and lessons learned will be used extensively. The partners’ competences, the wide network, the opportunity to build up on field tested tools/methodologies, the delivered textile-customised solutions for companies’ competitiveness needs, and finally the European know-how sharing through ad-hoc joint-teams are unique features of the SET project.

Attività svolta da ENEA