This study focuses on manufacturing firms’ greening efforts in four areas of electrical energy consumption: demand management of electricity, production energy management, utility energy management, and use of renewable energy.
The study aims to identify the underlying patterns in the choice of energy conservation strategies and seek possible explanations for such patterns in terms of manufacturing firms’ characteristics.
To achieve these objectives, the study uses firm-specific data pertaining to electric energy consumption and improvement efforts undertaken by the firms. Data pertaining to assessments on electricity consumption, recommendations and their implementation during time period 2000-2015 for several industries are considered for the study to identify the underlying patterns in the adoption of greening strategies in electrical energy management, latent class analysis (LCA) technique.
