SCOoPE- Toolkit for Intelligent and Collaborative Energy Savings in Agrofood

Companies in the agrifood sector have faced high energy costs, which can influence their competitiveness in the market. This project allowed a cooperative energy saving, without any decrease in production capacity for companies and maintaining good socioeconomic and environmental conditions.The project pursued larger savings in the medium term with new affordable intelligent energy solutions, specifically by proving in operational environment the “Collaborative Energy Management Systems”. It has taken advantage of complementarities and synergies among analysed industrial sites with similar characteristics or proximity and used them for the improvement of their joint energy efficiency. For this purpose, 6 pilot industrial clusters in 5 different countries have set up and used for assessing the improvements in overall energy consumptions and its associated costs that could be achieved by using common procedures based on the ISO 50001 standard and supported by specific software developed by the project.The project has delivered a reservoir of specially qualified human resources, fact-based knowledge and techniques, and customized software tools, that are useful for and applicable to other thousands of European companies in the same agro-food subsectors Fruits and Vegetables or dealing with the same industrial processes Conservation and storage of fruit, calibration and packaging.