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Mission and Goals

The ITP Multi-Year Program Plan includes specific and crosscutting goals for fiscal year 2008 through fiscal year 2012 that call for ITP to:

  • Complete 1,500 Energy Savings Assessments
  • Launch ANSI-accredited plant energy-efficiency certification process and certify 1,500 plants
  • Commercialize 15 new technologies
  • Achieve cumulative 5-year savings of 500 trillion Btu through program activities

The Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) mission is to have U.S. industry lead the world in energy efficiency and productivity. ITP leads the national effort to reduce industrial energy intensity and carbon emissions, and strives to transform the way U.S. industry uses energy by supporting cost-shared research and development that addresses the top energy challenges facing industry. Additionally, ITP fosters the adoption of today's advanced technologies and energy management best practices to produce meaningful progress in reducing industrial energy intensity.

ITP's three-part strategy delivers on this mission by:

  • Sponsoring research, development, and demonstration of industry-specific and crosscutting technologies to reduce energy and carbon intensity

  • Conducting technology delivery activities to help plants access today's technology and management practices

  • Promoting a corporate culture of energy efficiency and carbon management within industry.

To align with its mission, ITP has embraced a goal to drive a 25% reduction in industrial energy intensity by 2017, guided by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which is available on the Library of Congress Web site. The strategy also calls for an 18% reduction in U.S. carbon intensity by 2012, guided by the Administration's National Goal to Reduce Emissions Intensity.

Through the Save Energy Now initiative, ITP delivers resources to help all companies nationwide boost their energy efficiency and reach this "25 in 10" goal. ITP has set both broad and specific goals over the next five years to implement the strategic plan.