DOE Supply Chain Energy Efficiency / Industrial Technologies

DOE Supply Chain Energy Efficiency / Industrial Technologies Program
(ITP)
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Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency & Renewable
Energy (EERE)
Industrial Technologies Program (ITP)
United States, voluntary
All who volunteer, but primarily manufacturing
Andre Defontaine, [email protected]
Summary:
The Department of Energy seeks to promote energy efficiency through corporate supply
chains. The Industrial Technologies Program helps to encourage existing corporate supply
chain energy efficiency efforts by developing tools and providing resources. Though in
early stages and voluntary, the program’s goal is to create a set of standard tools and
metrics that a broad set of companies, including small and medium sized, can use to
advance supply chain energy efficiency and track and report progress.
The Department of Energy is working with other agencies like the EPA (Green Supplier
Network, Energy Star, and Climate Leaders) and the Department of Commerce
(Manufacturing Extension Partnership and Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative) to
leverage the existing, government-backed energy efficiency programs to apply them to
corporate supply chains.
In the near term, the program seeks to publish a supply chain energy management guidance
document, to initiate pilot projects to develop and test tools, and establish one ore more
advisory working groups of external stakeholders.
If companies chose to participate in the program, the benefits include, reduced energy and
carbon emissions of manufacturing inputs and outputs, reduced energy costs, increased
supplier reliability, improved stakeholder relations and public opinion due to enhanced
sustainability from energy management. This initiative primarily affects companies within
the manufacturing sector, but may also apply to retailers.
For more information about the Industrial Technologies Program see
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/pdfs/supply_chain_2_pager.pdf.