ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Energy Res.
Sec. Energy Efficiency
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2025.1619417
This article is part of the Research TopicEnergy Management, Energy Efficiency Policies, and Energy System StudiesView all 8 articles
Energy Efficiency of Manufacturing Supply Chains: Swedish Survey Findings
Provisionally accepted
- 1University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
- 2Tallinn University of Technology, Estonian Maritime Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
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Due to increasing emission reduction requirements and higher energy prices, manufacturing companies have started to pay attention on the energy efficiency of supply chains, instead of own operations. As emission reduction and energy efficiency are often sharing the same objectives, these are seen in the earlier research as issues to be dealt together. Aim in this research is to examine with survey the level of energy efficiency work of manufacturers with suppliers, and drivers of such activity. Based on 2024 completed survey findings, Swedish manufacturers are taking initial steps in energy efficiency work with suppliers. Typically, suppliers are asked to provide energy use information, and analysis of it. Top management support is the most important driver for this work, followed by company's environmental profile, reduction of production costs and emphasis of scope 3 emission reduction. There is also some evidence that companies having public sector as the main customer are having higher activity in energy efficiency work with suppliers.
Keywords: energy efficiency, supply chain, manufacturing, Sweden, Survey
Received: 28 Apr 2025; Accepted: 13 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hilmola, Fobbe, Haartman and Hilletofth. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Olli-Pekka Hilmola, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
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