Energy Use and Loss Footprints
How does your plant compare to the average energy use and loss in your industry?Learn More About Energy Footprints | ||
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Energy Footprints map the flow of energy supply, demand, and losses in U.S. manufacturing industries. Each footprint illustrates:
- What energy is purchased from utilities (electricity, fossil fuels), generated onsite, and transported to the local grid.
- Where and how energy is used within a typical plant, from central boilers to motors.
- Where energy is lost due to inefficiencies, both inside and outside the plant boundary.
Energy losses represent immediate opportunities to improve efficiency and lower energy consumption through the implementation of best energy management practices, improved energy systems, and new technology. The footprints represent an average picture of energy use for each industry. Actual energy use in a plant will vary from the industry average.
Energy footprints for each industry present the same data in three levels of detail. They are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs (three pages each) for the documents listed below. Download Adobe Reader.
- Manufacturing Energy Footprint (total for manufacturing) (PDF 60 KB)
- Aluminum Energy Footprint (PDF 60 KB)
- Cement Energy Footprint (PDF 60 KB)
- Chemicals Energy Footprint (PDF 57 KB)
- Computers, Electronics, Appliances, Electrical Equipment Energy Footprint (PDF 62 KB)
- Fabricated Metals Energy Footprint (PDF 61 KB)
- Food and Beverage Energy Footprint (PDF 58 KB)
- Forest Products Energy Footprint (PDF 63 KB)
- Foundries Energy Footprint (PDF 61 KB)
- Glass and Fiber Glass Energy Footprint (PDF 58 KB)
- Heavy Machinery Energy Footprint (PDF 64 KB)
- Mining Energy Footprint (PDF 122 KB)
- Petroleum Refining Energy Footprint (PDF 62 KB)
- Plastics and Rubber Products Energy Footprint (PDF 63 KB)
- Steel Energy Footprint (PDF 60 KB)
- Textiles Energy Footprint (PDF 61 KB)
- Transportation Equipment Energy Footprint (PDF 63 KB)



















