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Retro-commissioning Incentives for Compressed Air Systems with Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy
By Nathaniel Q. Altfeather, Engineering Manager, SAIC
This article discusses the challenges and successes encountered while creating a retrocommissioning offering for industrial compressed air systems. The pilot program succeeded in enrolling seven different manufacturing facilities that, combined, represented more than 5,475 connected compressor horsepower. Five of the seven companies completed the pilot program and captured more than 2.3 Million annual kWh at an incentive cost of less than $0.03/kWh for the first year’s savings.  
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Incentive Program Profiles

Retro-commissioning Incentives for Compressed Air Systems with Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy
This article discusses the challenges and successes encountered while creating a retrocommissioning offering for industrial compressed air systems. The pilot program succeeded in enrolling seven different manufacturing facilities that, combined, represented more than 5,475 connected compressor horsepower. Five of the seven companies completed the pilot program and captured more than 2.3 Million annual kWh at an incentive cost of less than $0.03/kWh for the first year’s savings.  
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U.S. DOE News

Baldor and New EISA Law Deliver Increased Energy Savings
Compressed Air Best Practices interviewed Mr. John Malinowski, Senior Product Manager-AC Motors, Baldor Electric Company.
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U.S. EPA Energy Star News

2011 Energy Star Award Winners
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is honoring 111 Energy Star partners who have demonstrated leadership and commitment in protecting American’s health and the environment through energy efficiency achievements. 2011 Energy Star award winners include manufacturers, retailers, public schools, hospitals, real estate companies and home builders. Organizations are recognized in one of three award categories: Sustained Excellence, Partner of the Year, and Excellence.
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PG&E’s Third-Party Energy Incentive Programs
Compressed Air Best Practices® Magazine interviewed Mr. Justin Kjeldsen, Mr. Jeff Kohn, and Mr. Sam Zimmerman, Senior Program Managers for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E).
PG&E runs energy incentive programs through two channels. We have our core channel representing the majority of our energy incentive offerings, and we offer energy incentives through third-party channels. Our Third-Party programs account for approximately twenty percent (20%) of the energy incentive dollars. PG&E has contracted with thirty-four (34) third-party companies, or implementers, to run fifty (50) contracts.
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Energy Trust of Oregon's Production Efficiency Incentive Program
Compressed Air Best Practices® Magazine interviewed Mr. Ray Hawksley (Industrial Technical Manager) of the Energy Trust of Oregon Inc.
Energy Trust of Oregon is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to helping utility customers benefit from saving energy and tapping renewable resources. Our services, cash incentives and energy solutions have helped participating customers of Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural and Cascade Natural Gas save nearly $600 million on energy bills.
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EPA Invests $500,000 in Mississippi Wastewater Treatment System Project
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Regional Administrator, Stan Meiburg, today joined Congressman Bennie Thompson and a host of state and local officials at a news conference to announce the start of construction of a wastewater treatment system costing approximately $1 million in Bolivar County, Mississippi. Of the $1 million, Bolivar County received approximately $500,000 from EPA in addition to approximately $500,000 from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Block Grant program.
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Kaeser Earns ENERGY STAR Label
Kaeser Compressors, Inc. announced its US headquarters building has earned the ENERGY STAR Label! Kaeser became an ENERGY STAR Partner in 2009, and its headquarters in Fredericksburg, Virginia earned the label this year with a rating of 83 – well above the national average and exceeding ENERGY STAR requirements.
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Energy Star Helps Auto Plants Improve Energy Efficiency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program has helped improve the energy efficiency of the auto manufacturing industry, which has cut fossil fuel use by 12 percent and reduced greenhouse gases by more than 700,000 tons of carbon dioxide, according to a recent report by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. The emissions reductions, which help to fight climate change, equal the emissions from the electricity use of more than 80,000 homes for a year.
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DOE Save Energy Now Energy Assessments
DOE's Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) Save Energy Now energy assessments have been redesigned and improved. The new assessment process will focus on significantly increasing the implementation of identified savings opportunities - "MMBtus/year in the Ground" - while at the same time ensuring that there is significant cost/benefit for the Federal funds used for the assessments. The new assessments will provide greater value to industrial plants and better leverage the investment.
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DOE SAVE ENERGY NOW Plant-Wide Assessment Case Studies and Summaries
Plant-wide assessments (PWA) investigate overall energy use in industrial facilities and identify energy- and cost-saving opportunities for best practices in energy management for industry, including the adoption of new, energy-efficient technologies and process and equipment improvements. The U.S. Department of Energy cost-shares such assessments, usually through an annual competitive process.
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Energy Star Challenge for Industry Recognizes Manufacturing Sites
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized the first group of manufacturing sites that have met the Energy Star Challenge for Industry and reduced their energy intensity by 10 percent within 5 years or less. The U.S. manufacturing industry is responsible for nearly 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and spends almost $100 billion annually on energy.
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EPA ENERGY STAR Award Goes to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
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Recognizing its leadership in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has honored NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital with an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management, the energy program's highest honor. It is the fifth time the Hospital has been honored by the EPA — the most of any hospital in the country.  
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Energy Incentives from Great River Energy
Compressed Air Best Practices® Magazine interviewed Mr. Jake Selseth (Energy Incentive Program Administrator) of Great River Energy (GRE).
GRE administers a $9.5 million dollar energy rebate incentive budget in 2010 for our 28 co-ops. Fifty percent of the budget is designated for Residential and fifty percent targets Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural. This is the same budget we had in 2009 and in 2008, our budget was $6.5 million.
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