American manufacturers have embraced ENERGY STAR as a means to build successful energy programs, engage in vibrant peer networks, and improve their facilities' energy performance. EPA currently works with 31 industrial sectors to foster collaboration and develop industry-specific tools and resources. These sectors span the U.S. economy—from cookie and cracker bakeries and pharmaceutical plants to integrated steel mills and petroleum refineries.
Plants achieve ENERGY STAR certification and reductions
Popular tools include energy performance indicators, which provide companies with the information they need to make smart investment decisions. ENERGY STAR provides industry-specific energy performance indicators for 17 different types of manufacturing plants, and 93 plants earned the ENERGY STAR for superior energy performance in 2017.
In addition, 38 industrial plants achieved energy use intensity reductions in the 2017 ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry campaign, in which industrial sites commit to reducing their energy intensity by 10 percent within five years.
Together, the ENERGY STAR program for industrial plants helped businesses save $1.4 billion in energy costs in 2016, contributing to cumulative energy cost savings of $42 billion since 1992.
For additional details about ENERGY STAR achievements see energystar.gov/numbers