at Session 3A: Policies II, we will present:
Policy recommendations to accelerate the replacement of old electric motors
🕓 on Tue 3rd Sep at 16:00 hrs
📌 in Trakt IV, Foyer D415
EU-MORE has conducted a review of existing policies in EU member states that directly or indirectly aim at accelerating motor replacement. A total of 61 policy measures have been identified and analysed for their approach, impact and lessons learnt, leading to an initial set of general observations. These observations will be used to derive policy recommendations.
A first observation is the uneven geographical distribution of the identified measures and their impact. While countries like Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Poland manage to achieve a relatively substantial impact, other major European economies like Italy, France and Spain have implemented few policies to enhance the replacement rates of motors. A second observation is that support systems of a financial kind, including subsidies, loans and fiscal compensations, comprise the large majority of all policy measures. Whether this kind of measures is still the most effective could be questioned, as the pay-back times of motor replacement have become shorter with rising electricity prices. The lack of information is a major barrier that is much less addressed by existing policy measures. Many of the identified measures were part of wider industrial energy efficiency programmes, in which the benefits of motor replacement were insufficiently clarified. Even when energy efficiency audits do identify motor replacement as a potential action, there are still many barriers to overcome before implementation actually takes place, and these barriers seem to be insufficiently addressed by the existing policies.
