ITP focuses on reducing manufacturer's energy requirements while stimulating economic productivity and growth. We invest in technologies and practices that provide clear public benefit, and address market barriers that prevent adequate private sector investment. Opportunities exist in process specific, energy-intensive industries; others target crosscutting technologies that are common to many industrial processes. Still others provide near-term benefits by improving industrial systems and practices, today.
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Our Energy Intensive Industries process provides cost-shared support to R&D partnerships that address the needs of eight of the nation's most energy intensive, and most crucial, industries. In fact, these eight industries account for a full 75% of industrial energy consumption and represent the largest opportunity to increase energy efficiency in the industrial sector.
ITP's efforts in crosscutting technologies provide cost-shared R&D in several key technology areas common to most energy-intensive industries. Because of the widespread application of these crosscutting technologies, even small improvements in their efficiency can yield large energy savings.
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Through BestPractices, ITP helps industry save energy today, by implementing proven technologies and energy management practices. ITP encourages near-term adoption of these technologies and practices and offers resources such as software tools, training and technical information.
The Industrial Assessment Centers program enables eligible small and medium-sized manufacturers to have comprehensive industrial assessments performed at no cost to the manufacturer.
Superior Energy Performance Plant Certification Program
ITP joins the U.S. Council for Energy-Efficient Manufacturing in developing Superior Energy Performance. This voluntary, industry-designed certification program will give companies a framework to focus on managing and improving energy performance.
This program will make energy management an essential part of a company's standard operating procedure by offering a method to measure and validate plant energy efficiency improvements. The first plants could be certified in 2010, and the national voluntary program launch is planned for 2011.
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