Plant-Wide Assessments
Plant-wide assessments are one way to work with BestPractices—most plants can expect to save 10% to 15% of their annual energy costs after just one assessment. Plants are selected through a competitive solicitation process. The maximum award is $100,000 and requires a minimum cost-share of 50%. An industry-defined team conducts an on-site analysis of total energy use and identifies opportunities to save energy in your overall operations and in motor, steam, compressed air, and process heating systems. The recommendations could include implementing emerging technologies that would be particularly effective in your operation. These emerging technologies, although on the forefront of industrial manufacturing, are successful and commercially proven.
Energy Productivity and Waste Assessments (Industrial Assessment Centers)
If you run a small- to medium-sized manufacturing facility with gross annual sales below $75 million and fewer than 500 employees at the plant site, you may be especially interested in an IAC energy and waste assessment. IAC assessments are a no-cost, on-site visit to your plant to identify potential savings opportunities. A team of engineering faculty and students from a participating university in your area assesses your plant and recommends ways you can improve efficiency. If you are interested in adding your facility to the 9,600 others that the IACs have assessed since 1981, visit the Industrial Assessment Centers Web site.
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