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Baldor and New EISA Law Deliver Increased Energy Savings
By Compressed Air Best Practices
Compressed Air Best Practices interviewed Mr. John Malinowski, Senior Product Manager-AC Motors, Baldor Electric Company.
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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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Processing Plants Earn ENERGY STAR Award
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing the first three frozen fried potato processing plants to earn the Energy Star for superior energy performance.
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ENERGY STAR Program Changes
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy today jointly announced changes to the Energy Star product certification
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DOE Awards Funding for Energy Efficiency
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced, in November 2009, that the Department of Energy is awarding more than $155 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for 41 industrial energy efficiency projects across the country.
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DOE Announces Incentives Web Site
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The State Incentives and Resources Database on the State & Utilities Partnerships Web site has been upgraded and re-released.
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Opportunities from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
By Jesse Krivolavek, President, IVS, Inc.
Let’s say someone were to tape some one-hundred dollar bills together to make a string.  The string of one-hundred dollar bills allocated to energy funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 would go from New York to Hawaii ten times. . . and then some.
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