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McKinsey and the Technical University of Munich open
Model Factory for Energy Productivity

German companies can reduce energy costs by 30 percent – Savings in the billions – First training and continuing education facility worldwide

Garching/Munich. Starting now, at Germany's first Model Factory for Energy Productivty (Lernfabrik für Energieproduktivität or LEP), industrial companies can learn how to reduce their energy costs by up to 30 percent and thus significantly lower their CO2 emissions. "Added together up to 2020 and thereafter, German companies can save ten billion euros annually – and without reducing jobs or having to make major investments," McKinsey partner Detlef Kayser said on Tuesday at the official opening of the Model Factory in Garching near Munich. Many companies are aware that they still have considerable room for improving their energy costs. However, they often lack concrete knowledge of the methods to substantially decrease their energy consumption. This is the gap that the Model Factory is designed to close. The factory was set up in a cooperative effort by the management consulting firm McKinsey and the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebswissenschaften or iwb) of the Technical University of Munich. More ...

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During the September 2010 World Energy Congress in Montreal, Deutsche Welle TV broadcast a report about the Model Factory that offers a glimpse of what workshops there are like.