Decarbonisation

Our Services

We offer you comprehensive advice on how you can implement decarbonization on your production site, among others through:

  • Evaluation of the current energy supply under the lead of a certified European Energy Manager and Energy Auditor (EUREM)
  • Development of sustainable energy concepts for companies, countries, regions and municipalities
  • Concepts for converting energy supply to alternative, innovative and sustainable energy sources
  • Comparison of variants and feasibility studies
  • Comparison with industry standard benchmarks
  • Identification of optimization potential in terms of energy efficiency
  • Calculation of greenhouse gas balances and possible savings potentials
  • Planning support through all project phases of your new energy supply system, from conception, feasibility study, submission planning and tender planning to commissioning, acceptance test and operational optimization
  • Management of contacts with authorities
  • Expert opinions, studies and reports
Green Deal
 
The European Green Deal is a comprehensive strategy of the European Union to facilitate the transition to a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy. Specifically, the EU member states agreed on these goals:

  • Reduction of net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990
  • Complete avoidance of net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
  • Decoupling of economic growth and resource consumption
  • Social justice for all people and regions

These goals are to be achieved by implementing, among others, the following measures:

  • Increased expansion of wind energy, solar energy and other renewable energy sources
  • Improvement of energy efficiency in buildings and in industry
  • Sustainable mobility, e.g. expansion of public transport, promotion of electric vehicles
  • Protection and restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity
  • Promotion of sustainable agriculture, reduction of pesticide use in agriculture
EU Emission Trading
 
The European Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) was established in 2005 in order to support the implementation of the International Kyoto Protocol on Climate Protection (1997). Within the European Union, the ETS is the central tool to achieve climate protection.

The EU Emissions Trading System regulates the trading of emission rights. These give a company the right to emit a certain amount of greenhouse gases. This right is based either on the free allocation of emission rights by the state or on the purchase of emission certificates that can be traded between companies. The underlying basic principle is that emission reduction shall be carried out where reduction costs are lowest, thereby reducing the overall costs of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2005, EU emission trading was made mandatory for several energy-intensive industrial sectors and for the energy industry. Intra-European air traffic has been participating since 2012 and maritime transport since 2024.

In 2023, the EU Emission Trading Directive (Directive 2003/87/EC) was revised as part of the “Fit-For-55” package. Several sectors that were not previously affected by emission trading are now included and the participants are structured as follows:

  • Industry and energy (“ETS-1”)
  • Buildings, road transport and other sectors (“ETS-2”)

In Austria, the national administrative framework was adapted correspondingly through an amendment to the Emissions Certificates Act 2011 (EZG 2011), which was published in Federal Law Gazette I No. 196/2023.