# Presentation: 714445

**Encouraging Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing**

- Elizabeth Dutrow
- ENERGY STAR
- US EPA

## What is ENERGY STAR?

- 	A ***voluntary*** program that enables organizations of all types to achieve their best in energy efficiency

## Goals

**Goals**

- Energy management is institutionalized within manufacturing businesses
- Manufacturers show sustained energy performance

## Model for management

- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- manufacturers know and use ISO quality and environmental standards
- continuous improvement is central
- companies maintain active systems for measuring, planning, improving, and evaluating performance

## Basic commitment to improve

- Fundamental statement by **upper management** to continuously improve energy efficiency
- made by CEO/president or CFO
- Requires **conscious focus** on energy management

## Strategic energy management

-    Practical approach based on the success of over 1,368 U.S. organizations

## Basic measures

- Continuous improvement
- Measure, baseline and benchmark energy performance
- Performance goals
- Action plan
- Evaluate progress
- Reward achievements

## Tailored approach to sectors

- Energy issues sometimes are unique to individual manufacturing industries
- ENERGY STAR Focuses provide a customized approach to energy management

## ENERGY STAR Focuses

- Improve efficiency in an industry
- Create momentum for continued improvement
- Provide tools to enhance energy performance
- Uncover new energy saving opportunities
- Encourage sharing of ideas within the sector

## A Focus provides . . .

- Support of the industry
*energy managers are convened*
- Complete technical opportunities assessment
*a guide on energy efficiency options targeted to the industry’s energy and plant managers*
- Plant Energy Performance Indicators
*external benchmarks for comparing plant **	**performance in the industry*

## Energy Performance Indicator

**Energy Performance Indicator**

- A tool that allows comparison of how efficiently a plant uses energy relative to those in the industry
- ranking/percentile score of a plant’s energy performance and normalized to the plant’s configuration
- based on actual energy use patterns in the industry and activities that influence energy use
- relates plant energy inputs to product outputs, the primary business of a plant, or to other factors beyond control of plant manager, e.g. weather, utilization, etc.

## Efficiency guidance

***“******Energy Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for XXXX:  An ENERGY STAR******®****** Guide for Energy and Plant Managers”***
- Study and report prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Process-specific and cross-cutting technologies/practices from around the world
- Estimation of energy savings potential
- Opportunities to be used now

## Rewarding achievements

**ENERGY STAR Partner Raytheon Company receives 2003 Partner of the Year Award from EPA Administrator Whitman**

## Benefits to companies

- Reduced energy costs &
- 	emissions
- Demonstrated environmental leadership
- Improved competitiveness

## Focuses underway

- Automobile assembly (coordinating with Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers)
- plant energy performance indicator (EPI)
- energy guide completed
- annual energy efficiency forum
- Cement manufacturing (working with Portland Cement Association)
- EPI in development
- energy guide for cement plants
- energy efficiency forum
- Corn refining (working with Corn Refiners Association)
- EPI in development
- energy guide for corn milling completed
- energy efficiency forum
- Brewing (coordinating with Beer Institute)
- EPI provided
- energy guide for breweries
- energy efficiency forum
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing
- focus requested by industry and scheduled for Winter 2004

- Elizabeth Dutrow
- US EPA
- 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
- MS:  6202J
- Washington, DC  20460
- email:  dutrow.elizabeth@epa.gov
- (202) 343-9061