U.S. Industries Join DOE To Improve Energy Efficiency

(EERE, December 2009) Thirty-two U.S. companies have pledged to reduce the energy intensity of their industrial activities by 25 percent. They spotlighted the effort by joining DOE’s new Save Energy Now LEADER program.  DOE expects that the LEADER companies will become pace setters in improving U.S. industrial energy efficiency. In return, LEADER program participants will receive access to select DOE resources as well as national recognition for their energy management achievements.

For over two decades, U.S. industry has worked with DOE’s Industrial Technologies Program to make good strides in improving energy efficiency. The LEADER program will help companies take next steps to best practices.

In targeting industry, DOE’s Save Energy Now program has already assisted over 2,000 U.S. industrial plants to receive energy assessments in the past three years. Those assessments identified opportunities for $1.3 billion in identified cost savings, 119 trillion Btu of natural gas savings, and 11.2 million metric tons of CO2 savings.

It is expected that additional companies will join the initial 30 LEADER companies already announced. The industrial sector still accounts for nearly 30 percent of U.S. energy consumption and 27 percent of the country’s carbon emissions.

• Initial LEADER program companies include:
• 3M (St. Paul, Minn.)
• AT&T (Dallas, Texas)
• BPM, Inc. (Peshtigo, Wis.)
• Bridgestone (McMinnville, Tenn.)
• Briggs & Stratton (Wauwatosa, Wis.)
• Cummins, Inc. (Columbus, Ind.)
• Danfoss (Baltimore, Md.)
• Didion Milling (Johnson Creek, Wis.)
• The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.)
• Flambeau River Papers (Park Falls, Wis.)
• Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.)
• Ingersoll Rand/Trane (Piscataway, N.J.)
• Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.)
• JR Simplot (Boise, Idaho)
• Manitowoc Grey Iron Foundry (Manitowoc, Wis.)
• Mohawk Industries (Dalton, Ga.)
• Neenah Foundry (Neenah, Wis.)
• Nissan North America (Smyrna, Tenn.)
• Osram Sylvania (Danvers, Mass.)
• Owens Corning (Toledo, Ohio)
• PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
• Quad/Graphics, Inc. (Sussex, Wis.)
• Schneider Electric (Palatine, Ill.)
• Serious Materials (Sunnyvale, Calif.)
• Shaw Industries (Dalton, Ga.)
• Sherwin-Williams, Richmond (Richmond, Ky.)
• Spirax Sarco, Inc. (Blythewood, S.C.)
• Thilmany Papers (Kaukauna, Wis.)
• ThyssenKrupp Waupaca (Waupaca, Wis.)
• United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Conn.)
• Verso Paper (Memphis, Tenn.)
• Volvo Trucks, Inc. (Dublin, Va.)