Which companies are eligible?
The programme for improving energy efficiency is aimed at manufacturing companies which are energy-intensive, use electricity in their manufacturing processes and which are able to implement the action required by the programme.
The Swedish Energy Agency decides whether a company may participate in PFE. A company is defined as energy-intensive if it meets at least one of the following two criteria:
- if the cost of energy (purchased and internally-generated) in the company amounts to at least 3 percent of the value of the company’s production.
- if the company’s energy, carbon dioxide and sulphur taxes amount to at least 0.5 percent of the company’s added value.
All or part of the company may participate
A company may participate in PFE as a whole company (all operations within the corporate ID number) or through those parts of the company which are energy-intensive, are run independently and have their own funds. A company may also decide to participate through a number of plants, which have the same corporate ID number (i.e. belong to the same company for organizational purposes), separately and in parallel during a single programme period.
