GONZÁLEZ FALCÓN , Rocío

Energy certification schemes for buildings emerged in the early 1990s as an essential method for improving energy efficiency, minimising energy consumption and enabling greater transparency with regards to the use of energy in buildings. However, from the beginning their definition and implementation process were diffuse and, occasionally, have...

Despite the industrial sector accounts for about a quarter of total final consumption worldwide and great efforts have been carried out to reduce its energy use in the last decades, there are still substantial oppor tunities to improve industrial energy efficiency. Among those opportunities, energy management sys tems (EMSs) are one of the most...