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

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