Assessing the potential to overcome economic barriers in the design and implementation of energy-saving technologies

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2025.337648

Keywords:

enterprise potential, enterprise potential assessment toolkit, energy-saving technologies, economic obstacles, overcoming obstacles, energy-saving project

Abstract

This study’s object is the potential to overcome economic barriers in the design and implementation of energy-saving technologies at enterprises. The task addressed is to devise an effective toolset for assessing this potential.

The theoretical foundations for analyzing economic barriers in the design and implementation of energy-saving technologies have been substantiated. A procedure for assessing the potential for overcoming these obstacles was developed. This procedure involves determining the capabilities of enterprises under certain conditions to overcome specified barriers of a subjective and objective nature. In turn, such conditions include enhancing the competence of company personnel and improving the processes of information support for the process that assesses the effectiveness of energy-saving projects, as well as positive changes of an external nature.

The designed toolkit was assessed using data from 98 industrial enterprises in the western region of Ukraine. Among other things, it was found that the companies studied have a sufficiently high potential for overcoming economic obstacles that arise when implementing energy-saving technological processes. In particular, the share of energy-saving technology projects that were considered and rejected because of the presence of subjective economic obstacles in the total number of rejected projects varies by industry from 39.29% to 47.54%.

The proposed toolkit produces accurate and comprehensive results using a formalized procedure. It could be used by enterprises in various industries to assess the potential for overcoming economic barriers to the design and implementation of energy-saving technologies

Author Biographies

Valentyn Lesinskyi, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Radioengineering and Information Security

Olexandr Yemelyanov, Lviv Polytechnic National University

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor

Department of Business Economics and Investment

Oksana Zarytska, Lviv Polytechnic National University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Business Economics and Investment

Tetyana Petrushka, Lviv Polytechnic National University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Business Economics and Investment

Nataliia Myroshchenko, Lviv Polytechnic National University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Business Economics and Investment

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2025-08-27

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Lesinskyi, V., Yemelyanov, O., Zarytska, O., Petrushka, T., & Myroshchenko, N. (2025). Assessing the potential to overcome economic barriers in the design and implementation of energy-saving technologies. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 4(13 (136), 79–91. https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2025.337648

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Vol. 4 No. 13 (136) (2025): Transfer of technologies: industry, energy, nanotechnology

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