LIEN member results and targets

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Explore the energy performance of different sectors in LIEN. It's useful for benchmarking your organisation's performance and the potential savings you could achieve.

About the report

The report shows the energy and emissions performance of LIEN members. In early 2025, 192 companies reported on their 2024 performance.

See how LIEN and its main sectors are performing against national emissions reduction targets, and how sectoral emissions have changed over time. 

These are split into Scope 1 (direct emissions from sources controlled or owned by the organisation) and Scope 2 (indirect emissions from purchased energy).You can select and deselect sectors to see only what's relevant to your organisation. The report will update automatically.

Results for companies who reported in 2024

The total final energy consumed by LIEN members was 23.9 TWh, about 16.6% of the national total. The total CO₂ emitted by LIEN members was 4.6 million tonnes (MtCO₂), about 8.1% of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted nationally.

Members also report on energy saved through energy management systems or decarbonisation projects. In 2024, 154 companies reported verified energy savings of 386 GWh. This represents 88 thousand tonnes of CO₂ in avoided emissions and saved costs of €35.8 million.

As a non-industrial sector, the national industrial target doesn't apply. Converting to renewable heating and electrifying transport would help to reduce scope 1 emissions for the sector.

Large emissions reductions in this sector is significant for progress towards a 35% reduction by 2030. Lower output levels may be factor in these large reductions. However, this sector has particularly strong decarbonisation plans. Early data from member companies suggests although output may have increased recently, emissions have still dropped.

As this is a small LIEN sector, data is limited and heavily influenced by individual company activity. Historically, large sectoral reduction in emissions relates to using less fuel oil. Reducing emissions from vehicles is especially important in this sector as they represent more than 56% of scope 1 emissions.

This sector mainly has indirect scope 2 emissions. However, the sector is not performing well for scope 1 with emissions increasing. Any emissions above the national target means a decrease in carbon budgets in the following years.

This is also a small LIEN sector, so data is limited and heavily influenced by individual company activity. The energy sector are large scope 1 emitters. It is achieving reductions through fuel switching and energy savings projects.

The food and drink sector has the largest number of LIEN members. Although trending in the right direction, the sector is far from targets. This means it's negatively impacting the carbon budget. Over 80% of emissions in this sector are scope 1. It has an important role to play in decarbonisation to meet national targets.

The trend is showing a large decrease for the sector but it is far from target. Opportunities exist to decarbonise by electrifying low temperature process heat and space heating.

The metals and engineering is the largest by emissions. It is dominated by the activities of a single company. This sector is difficult to decarbonise due to the process requirements for high temperature heat. It will require significant decarbonisation projects to meet national targets.

The second largest number of companies in LIEN are in this sector. This sector is the worst performing sector in tCO2e difference. This will penalise the global percentage reduction and reduce the carbon budget for the following years. This sector has large decarbonisation potential due to the frequent use of steam for heating spaces.

A small number of LIEN members in this sector. The fluctuations in trends seen in the graph are due to missing data for some years between 2018 and 2024. This has a large effect when analysing small number of companies.

A variety of industries with very small numbers of companies. They are grouped together to maintain confidentiality.