Industrial Energy Savings    

Energy Manager

Congratulations on Saint-Gobain being named a 2010 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This is the second year in a row you’ve won the award. Why was this award received?

Corporate Sustainability Programs

Congratulations on Saint-Gobain being named a 2010 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This is the second year in a row you’ve won the award. Why was this award received?

Sustainable Manufacturing News

PepsiCo, Inc., a leader in the food and beverage industry, is committed to making energy management a successful and integral part of its corporate sustainability efforts.

Personal Productivity

Right now you're probably busy taking inventory, organizing your books, and evaluating what you did right (and not so right) in hopes of preparing yourself for a profitable new year. Here’s a suggestion: Instead of focusing solely on financial matters, why not take a good hard look at the character of your company?  
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.
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.
The priorities for accelerating change in the hospital sector as identified by the Hospital Energy Alliance (HEA) Steering Committee are:
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.  
It’s not that tracking performance is wrong, but there are other ways to issue status reports on projects more efficiently. Email, intranets, and old-fashioned paper can allow data to be absorbed more quickly than verbal presentations at meetings. Why not use the invaluable time in management meetings for what we wish we had more time for – solving problems?
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.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy today jointly announced changes to the Energy Star product certification
Heinz publishes goal to reduce GHG emissions by 20% by 2015 by focusing on eight key areas:
To effectively monitor our key environmental performance indicators, we established a baseline year of 2007 with a target year of 2016 in each of our priority focus areas.
Merck & Co., Inc. announced that it has received a 2010 ENERGY STAR® Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its continued efforts to protect the environment through energy efficiency.