Barriers to Improved Energy Efficiency in The Indonesian Steel Industry: Empirical Evidence

摘要

This research is an explorative study, purposed at amplifying the knowledge of the industrial energy saving in the Indonesian steel company, by analyzing the obstacles to energy saving improvement. A questionnaire collects data from steel company practitioners in Indonesia. The results denoted that the top five of the twenty obstacles considered falls into two categories, namely the quality-type of raw material-fuel used and the group of the policy. These barriers include that the energy prices, quality of raw material, the absence of economic incentive regulation, inadequate for incentive amount, and distortion in energy efficiency policy.