Energy – Saving opportunities exhausted – Economy

According to a company survey by the Ifo Institute, a large majority of German industrial companies have so far managed to save gas without cutting back on production. However, many companies have already done what is possible in this regard. The scope for further savings without a drop in production seems to be increasingly exhausted, said Karen Pittel, head of the Ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Resources. The Ifo Institute published the survey results in Munich on Tuesday. Sixty percent of the industrial companies surveyed stated that they needed gas for production – and according to the survey, three quarters of these saved gas without restricting production. However, the results vary greatly from sector to sector: in the automotive industry and mechanical engineering, more than 80 percent of the companies succeeded, in the chemical industry only 60 percent.

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