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Better Plants Program Manufacturers Save More Than $2 Billion in Energy Costs

October 7, 2015 · WoREA Editorial Team · World of Renewables
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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.

October 07, 2015

The Energy Department announced on September 30 that manufacturers in its Better Buildings, Better Plants Program (Better Plants) have saved an estimated $2.4 billion in cumulative energy costs over the last five years.

U.S. manufacturers spend more than $200 billion each year to power their manufacturing facilities. As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to double energy productivity, American manufacturers and water and wastewater treatment agencies made a voluntary commitment to improve energy intensity by about 25% over 10 years through …read more

Read more here:: http://www.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=22091