Increasing energy resilience, saving costs, and curbing emissions with systemic efficiency approaches

This document leverages findings from the proceedings of the Group of Experts on Energy Efficiency and its Task Force on Industrial Energy Efficiency, to introduce the umbrella term of systemic efficiency as a holistic delivery mechanism that implies optimization of energy use across entire systems, considering the interconnectedness and synergism of various components and sectors rather than addressing them in isolation. It provides actionable insights on harnessing systemic efficiency to factor into energy resilience, lower energy costs, and reduced carbon footprint of the energy sector, and highlights the need for further collaborative research in this direction by the subsidiary bodies of the Committee on Sustainable Energy.