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Ford Motor Company

Sustained Excellence
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, Michigan

Ford Motor Company is a global automotive industry leader, manufacturing and distributing vehicles in 200 markets across six continents. Continuing its commitment to reduce the environmental impact of producing quality cars and trucks, the company made 2007 a year to build on its commitment to strategically manage energy. This is the first time Ford has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. Key accomplishments include:

  • Reducing energy use across its U.S. operations by 4.5 percent in 2007, saving an estimated 1.5 trillion Btu of energy, or the energy required to assemble 87,000 Ford Escape Hybrids.
  • Reducing energy use by nearly 30 percent since 2000.
  • Earning the ENERGY STAR label for superior energy performance for seven automobile assembly plants and office buildings.

Ford follows EPA's ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management. The company relies heavily on benchmarking facility energy consumption and has adapted the ENERGY STAR auto assembly plant energy performance indicator into a custom application to track and evaluate the energy efficiency of its U.S. assembly plants. Ford uses the data for trending, gap analysis, and identifying improvement opportunities.

In 2007, Ford Motor Company continued its investment in plant upgrades by using energy performance contracts and reducing off-shift energy use through effective non-production shutdown best practices. A leader in technology innovation, Ford focused on energy intensive operations like paint application and its industry-leading 3-Wet painting process, and further developed its Fumes to Fuel strategy. In addition, as a result of the EPA Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, the company embraced a new energy management opportunity to reduce the impact of data centers on the environment. Through a partnership with Hewlett-Packard, Ford developed a 3 year program to consolidate all of its computer data centers globally. When complete, Ford expects to reduce energy use in this application by 90 percent.

Ford actively promotes its partnership with ENERGY STAR and communicates its achievements to employees, suppliers, dealerships, and customers. The company's energy team shares practical home energy efficiency tips and ENERGY STAR materials with employees and also partners with local schools and universities.