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General Motors Corporation
Detroit, Michigan
General Motors Corporation, a world leader in vehicle manufacturing, carefully manages the energy performance of its worldwide business operations. General Motors’ global Energy and Environment Strategy Board integrates energy efficiency and environmental issues into its everyday business decisions. As a result, the corporation’s world-class energy program includes aggressive energy performance improvement goals, a clear procurement policy for energy efficiency in manufacturing and building equipment, benchmarking of plant energy performance both internally and relative to key competitors, and the Energy $avings Project Implementation Process that allows energy efficiency projects to compete on equal footing with other business operations. General Motors’ superior energy performance has led to savings of more than $400 million in the past 6 years. In 2001 alone, General Motors has reduced energy use by 4.8 trillion Btu, equivalent to the profit margin for selling $800 million worth of vehicles.