Automotive Design and Production

JUL 2014

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Germany has a plan—called "Energiewende"—which calls for a 20% reduction in energy use by 2020 compared with energy use in 2008. Then it is a reduction of 50% by 2050. Realize that Germany has no intention of no longer being an industrial economy during this period. So what this means is that industries have to pay more careful attention to their energy use. According to the Institute of Prod- uction Engineering and Machine Tools at Leibniz Universität Hannover ( ifw.uni-hannover.de ), the industrial sector accounts for 42% of the total electricity con- sumption in Germany, of which, AD&P; > July 2014 > FEATURE > Major Gains in Energy Reduction through Minor Adjustments 40 0714ADP FEATURE Energy -- Digital Version.indd 40 6/17/2014 1:09:44 PM

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