Industrial Distributed Energy is a crosscutting activity of the Industrial Technologies Program (ITP). Partnering with private industry and states, ITP helps accelerate the deployment, testing, and validation of novel distributed energy applications for industry. ITP activities help eliminate regulatory and institutional barriers to widespread commercialization, and increase market awareness of industrial distributed energy technologies. ITP also promotes education, technical assistance, and assessments through the Clean Energy Application Centers.
Distributed energy offers the potential for large industrial energy savings opportunities. Additional benefits include increased reliability and power quality requirements and related large cooling loads.
Solicitations
ITP conducts a competitive solicitation process to award cost-shared funding for R&D projects that will help to realize national goals for energy and the environment. Projects are performed by collaborative partnerships and must address both energy and cost savings, and industry needs.