Friday, May 28, 2010

Energy management demonstrations to provide facilities with roadmap

It started in Texas (as big things sometimes do) and then moved to the Northwest, picking up both speed and support. It is now taking root in several other regions across the country. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), working through the Industrial Technologies Program's (ITP's) Save Energy Now initiative, is sponsoring a series of energy management demonstrations to provide U.S. industrial facilities with a roadmap for achieving continuous improvement in energy efficiency through strategic energy management. The Texas Industries of the Future program coordinated the pilot with help from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Georgia Tech, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More>