U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Advanced Manufacturing Office

Program Plans, Implementation, and Results

This Web page includes links to documents that describe the program management process as well as the results and benefits that derive from it. More information on technology roadmaps and industry-specific analyses can be found in the Publication and Product Library. Additional descriptions of office activities can be found in the Budget.

Program Plans

Discover the plans, budgets, and analyses that set the direction of program priorities and activities.

Thumbnail image of 2008 Industrial Technologies Market Report (published May 2009)

Analysis (Risk, Benefit, Portfolio)

  1. Quadrennial Technology Assessment: Industrial Materials and Processes
    This assessment was one of 17 assessments spanning all DOE activities and incorporated into the Quadrennial Technology Review.

  2. Market Report for the Industrial Sector
    This report provides an overview of trends in industrial-sector energy use. It focuses on some of the largest and most energy-intensive industrial subsectors and several emerging technologies that could transform key segments of industry.

  3. Energy Use and Loss Footprints
    The Manufacturing Energy and Carbon Footprints provide a mapping of energy use and carbon emissions from energy supply to end use across the U.S. manufacturing sector and in 15 subsectors.

  4. Linking Transformational Materials and Processing for an Energy-Efficient and Low-Carbon Economy
    The Energy Materials Blue Ribbon Panel, representing experts from industry, academia, and government, identifies new materials and processing breakthroughs that could lead to transformational advances in energy efficiency, energy security, and carbon reduction.

Legislative and Executive Guidance

  1. P.L. 110-140, "Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007", 2007
    The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), signed into law on December 19, 2007, set forth an agenda for improving U.S. energy security across the entire economy. While industrial energy efficiency is specifically called out in Title IV, Subtitle D, other EISA provisions also apply to AMO activities.

  2. P.L. 109-58, "Energy Policy Act of 2005", 2005
    The Energy Policy Act of 2005 set forth an energy agenda covering a wide range of energy technology research and implementation activities with provisions applicable to AMO activities.

  3. P.L. 102-486, "Energy Policy Act of 1992", 1992
    The Energy Policy Act of 1992 established numerous requirements for industrial efficiency, including those listed under Title I, Subtitle D, and several sections under Title XXI.

  4. P.L. 95-91, "U.S. Department of Energy Organization Act", 1977
    This legislation consolidated the Federal Energy Administration and the Energy Research and Development Administration to create the Department of Energy and define its mission.

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Program Implementation

Learn how the program controls, implements, and adjusts its plans and manages activities.

Deployment and Diffusion

  1. State Incentives and Resource Database
    The database provides access to thousands of rebates, grants, loans, assessments and other incentives for implementation of energy savings projects in a manufacturing plant.

  2. Better Buildings, Better Plants Program
    The Better Buildings, Better Plants Program is part of a national leadership initiative calling on business leaders and others to create American jobs through energy efficiency.

  3. Nanomanufacturing R&D Portfolio Brochure
    This brochure describes the 31 R&D projects that AMO supports to accelerate the commercial manufacture and use of nanomaterials for enhanced energy efficiency. These cost-shared projects seek to exploit the unique properties of nanomaterials to improve the functionality of industrial processes and products.

  4. Grand Challenge Portfolio
    Under the Recovery Act, AMO provided cost-shared funding for early-stage, low-cost, "concept definition studies" of 47 promising innovations for next-generation manufacturing, energy-intensive processes, advanced materials, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. The brochure provides information on each of these projects.

  5. Powering Progress in Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
    The Powering Progress in Combined Heat and Power (CHP) brochure provides information about the opportunities and benefits of CHP technologies and AMO's role in their development and delivery

  6. Energy Intensive Processes R&D Portfolio Brochure
    AMO is developing advanced technologies that cut energy use and carbon emissions in some of the most energy-intensive processes within U.S. manufacturing. The brochure describes the AMO R&D projects that address these challenges.

  7. Memorandum of Understanding with the Green Grid Association
    This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) lays out the working agreement between the Green Grid Association and EERE. The intent of the MOU is to support a variety of activities assisting data center facilities to initiate and implement an energy management program, adopt clean energy and efficiency technologies and to achieve continual efficiency improvements.

  8. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Association of Manufacturers
    This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) lays out the working agreement between the National Association of Manufacturers and EERE. The intent of the MOU is to support a variety of activities assisting manufacturing facilities to initiate and implement an energy management program, adopt clean energy and efficiency technologies, and to achieve continual efficiency improvements and intensity reductions.

  9. MOU with Northwest Food Processors Association
    The Northwest Food Processors Association (NWFPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy entered into this memorandum of understanding to work collaboratively to reduce energy intensity by 25% within ten years.

  10. MOU with the State of Wisconsin
    In the interest of promoting greater energy efficiency throughout Wisconsin's industrial sector, this MOU establishes a voluntary collaborative effort among the U.S. DOE, the State of Wisconsin, Wisconsin's Focus on Energy Program, and CleanTech Partners.

  11. National Data Center Energy Efficiency Information Program, March 2008
    The National Data Center Energy Efficiency Information Program integrates and coordinates existing activities from the DOE Save Energy Now initiative, DOE FEMP, and the EPA ENERGY STAR program.

Competitive Solicitations and Grant Process

  1. Solicitations – Active and Closed
    AMO periodically issues solicitations to pursue cost-shared R&D with industry and to build partnerships with states, utilities, and other organizations to accelerate adoption of advanced technologies and energy management practices

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Program Results

Learn about the technological, commercial, and other outputs and outcomes that result from the public funds appropriated to the program and managed by it.

Commercial Outcomes

  1. Impacts: Industrial Technologies Program: Summary of Program Results for CY2009
    This annual report tracks the energy and other benefits of our commercialized technologies. From the 1980s to 2009, cumulative net energy savings are estimated at 10.0 quads, with an associated cost savings of $50.55 billion (in 2009 dollars).

  2. Energy Technology Solutions: Public-Private Partnerships Transforming Industry, 2010
    AMO's research and development partnerships with industry have resulted in more than 220 technologies and other solutions that can be purchased today. This document includes a description of each solution, its benefits, and vendor contact information. The document also identifies emerging technologies and other resources to help industry save energy.

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