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Our Energy Intensive Industries process provides cost-shared support to R&D partnerships that address the needs of eight of the nation's most energy-intensive, and most crucial, industries. In fact, these eight industries account for a full 75% of industrial energy consumption and represent the largest opportunity to increase energy efficiency in the industrial sector.
Our efforts in Crosscutting Technologies provide cost-shared funding for R&D in four key technology areas common to most energy-intensive industries: Combustion, Sensors & Automation, Industrial Materials for the Future, and Supporting Industries. Because of the widespread application of these crosscutting technologies, even small improvements in their efficiency can yield large energy savings.
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Through our BestPractices strategy, industrial partners can save enormous amounts of energy, today, by implementing off-the-shelf technologies and energy management practices. We fund activities to stimulate the near-term adoption of these technologies and practices including plant assessments, tool development and training, information and technology dissemination, and showcase demonstrations.
The Industrial Assessment Centers program enables eligible small and medium-sized manufacturers to have comprehensive industrial assessments performed at no cost to the manufacturer.
Industrial Energy Systems-such as motors, steam, compressed air, pumps, fans, process heating, combustion, and combined heat and power-account for about 80% of industrial energy use. Improving the efficiency of these systems can yield large energy and cost savings throughout U.S. manufacturing. The Industrial Technologies Program is (1) developing tools to help industry identify energy savings opportunities; (2) conducting cost-sharing R&D on combustion and heat recovery; and (3) working to improve systems, components, and materials that are essential to saving energy in manufacturing-from mining and primary metals to downstream product finishing. |
