ENERGY-SAVING AND DESALINATION OF WATER

The IDAE is a public entity of the Ministry of Industry and Energy whi ch belongs to the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources. Its obje ctive is to improve energy efficiency in the use of energy in the diff erent consumer sectors and to promote production and consumption of re newable energies. The work of the IDAE in the different consumer secto rs is derived from action planned in the Energy Saving and Efficiency Plan (ESEP) of the National Energy Plan 91/2000 and from strategies id entified in the New Promotion of Spain's Energy Saving Policy, which i ncludes thinking ahead to promote activities so that consumer sectors will be able to avoid having to take costly corrective measures - wher e feasible - in the future. The activities to promote energy efficienc y are therefore of particular interest in the new desalination sector which is already working on a large scale in Spain.