Strategic Study of Energy Management in the Brick Industry

The German Corporation for Development (GIZ) and the National Agency for Energy Management (acronym in French “ANME”) launched the project called “Support for Promoting Energy Efficiency in Tunisia” (French acronym “APEET”) to support the government’s effort and develop expertise in energy efficiency. Under the APEET project, Econoler was mandated to design an energy management strategy for the brick production industry by integrating new technologies and new services in Tunisian market.

Econoler’s mandate was aimed at analyzing the current state of Tunisia’s brick production industry, assessing and estimating the potential for achieving energy savings and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions in this industry as part of the effort to reach the Horizon 2030 goals, and building local brick factories’ energy management capacity.   More specifically, Econoler is carrying out the following tasks:

• Assessing the local enterprises in Tunisia’s brick industry, their relations with international enterprises and their technical processes and production technologies.  
• Assessing the brick industry’s potential for achieving energy savings and GHG emission reductions based on the data collected through the analysis of the industry and the analyses of the volume of emissions, the sources for reducing this industry’s energy consumption and the potential for reducing the associated GHG emissions.
• Proposing an energy-management action plan for the period of 2019-2030 for the brick industry according to the results of the audits and the program contracts developed.
• Building the brick factories’ energy-management capacity by holding bilateral meetings between experts and the selected brick factories.

  The energy management strategy developed by Econoler served to integrate new technologies and new energy efficiency services in the Tunisian brick industry. Moreover, the project contributed to promoting energy efficiency measures in the country and building the energy management capacity of local brick factories.