Glass Industry Energy And CO2 Emissions

Because of the fact that the glass manufacturing industry is so energy-intensive so it does tend to produce lots of CO2. Despite this fact, the glass industry is a really positive contributor to global efforts being made to reduce overall CO2 emissions from human economic activity. London Glaziers are the best for glass. They do this not only by constantly applying the most efficient available methods and technologies to their manufacturing processes, quite a significant part of the glass industry’s contribution also comes from the fact that their products can make buildings and houses far more energy-efficient than they traditionally would have been, for instance by using or blocking solar heat as required, and also through the highly effective insulating properties of modern windows and glass facades. Because of this effort, the CO2 emitted during the production process will be offset after only a few months by the use of energy-efficient glazing. So, during the lifetime of a window, the CO2 emitted during production is more than compensated by the huge energy saving that is realised. London Glazing are the experts for glass. Within the main points of the revised EU directive establishing a greenhouse gas Emission Trading Scheme, ETS, the flat glass industry has been considered as being exposed to quite a significant risk of carbon leaks. This means that the flat glass manufacturing industry, along with many other industries considered the same, are benefiting from free CO2 allowances up to the levels required by least CO2 emitting installations, for example up to the benchmark level. The European Commission is currently in the process of preparing a revision of the list of industries that are deemed to be exposed to risk of carbon leakage with new parameters and methods to calculate this exposure to carbon leaks. The European glass industries have stated that they feel could be premature to revise the list of industries exposed to carbon leaks right in the middle of the 3rd trading period of the EU ETS. The European Commission have not commented.