Following such mandate and in view of the preparation by the Commission of a Communication and a Staff Working Document, DG Enterprise and Industry carried out a study with the main purpose of providing well-grounded evidence about the evolution and composition of energy prices and costs at plant level within individual industry sectors.
The specific objective was to complement information already available at macro level with a bottom-up perspective on the operating conditions that, in terms of energy prices and costs, industry stakeholders need to deal with. The approach chosen was based on case studies for a certain number of (sub-)sectors amongst energy-intensive industries. A standard questionnaire was circulated and respondents were sampled according to specified criteria. Data and information collected were finally presented in a structured format and in order to guarantee comparability of results between the different (sub-)sectors analysed.
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