3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
4 Public Policy
4.1 Provide financial incentives to facilitate development and implementation of an Internet
platform and LuxLoop app [described in 1.1 above] for the purchase, exchange and
distribution of secondary sourced materials. The funding is needed in order to develop
the required information, secure storage space on data centers, engage technical know
how to build and maintain the database, and to assemble a communication team that
explains and promotes the “Luxloop” App.
4.2 Foster the use of "wasted" energy, continue improvements in energy efficiency, and
expand the use of renewable power [see 1.2 above]. Develop and maintain a ‘re-usable
energy source/flows’ inventory map. The European Energy Directive (2012/27/EU) 329
already requires large consumers to know their energy losses, and the Luxembourg
National initiative, Pact climat (http://www.pacteclimat.lu/fr for municipalities) promotes
energy consumption data collection and local actions to reduce the energy bills. Integrate
apps into the inventory map that enable calculating the cost of capturing re-usable energy
for additional purposes, as well as links to case examples of where this has been done,
experts who can be contacted, and financial incentives available from different entities,
e.g., EU, national, municipal, utility, third parties. Determining the cost-effectiveness of
harnessing re-usable energy should be compared to upgrading the existing operation with
more efficient and potentially cost-saving electrification alternatives, which could lead to
removing the existing thermal conversion process (e.g., as the steel industry has done in
replacing Blast Furnaces/Basic Oxygen Furnaces with Electric Arc Furnaces).
4.2.1 Develop reusable energy pilot projects, for example, greenhouses on top of industry
roofs.
4.3 New economic zone developments should take into account the expected valorization of
energy losses and renewable energy production during the planning phase and design of
new infrastructure. Traditional and conventional planning and design layouts have
typically overlooked or ignored synergistic opportunities that realize both capital and
operating expenditures. Examples include: layout of adjacent businesses for taking
advantage of cascading energy processes (a model case of an industrial symbiosis network
329 CEN/CENELEC (2015) European Standards for Energy Audits: helping companies to comply with requirements of
the EU Energy Efficiency Directive, European Committee for Standardization/ European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardization, July 9, 2015, http://www.cencenelec.eu/News/Press_Releases/Pages/PR-2015-
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