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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Toledo company is one of 32 nationwide to sign a pledge to reduce energy intensity by 25 Percent.
It's part of the Save Energy Now LEADER Program announced by federal authorities.
The program will provide technical assistance and resources to companies that pledge significant improvements in industrial energy efficiency.
Locally, Owens Corning joined 31 other companies who signed a voluntary pledge to reduce their industrial energy intensity by 25 percent over the next decade.
The U.S. industrial sector accounts for more than 18 million jobs in the United States, as well as nearly 30 percent of the energy used nationwide and 27 percent of the country's carbon emissions.
Over 2,000 plants received energy assessments through Save Energy Now from 2006 to 2009. To date, those assessments have identified opportunities for $1.3 billion in identified cost savings, 119 trillion Btu of natural gas savings, and 11.2 million metric tons of CO2 savings.
The 32 LEADER charter member companies agreed to establish energy use and energy intensity baselines, and develop an energy management plan over the next 12 months.
In return, the companies will receive access to select DOE resources, as well as national recognition for energy management achievements.
The companies signing the pledge include:
- 3M (St. Paul, MN)
- AT&T (Dallas, TX)
- BPM, Inc. (Peshtigo, WI)
- Bridgestone (McMinnville, TN)
- Briggs & Stratton (Wauwatosa, WI)
- Cummins, Inc. (Columbus, IN)
- Danfoss (Baltimore, MD)
- Didion Milling (Johnson Creek, WI)
- The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, MI)
- Flambeau River Papers (Park Falls, WI)
- Honeywell (Morristown, NJ)
- Ingersoll Rand/Trane (Piscataway, NJ)
- Intel (Santa Clara, CA)
- JR Simplot (Boise, ID)
- Manitowoc Grey Iron Foundry (Manitowoc, WI)
- Mohawk Industries (Dalton, GA)
- Neenah Foundry (Neenah, WI)
- Nissan North America (Smyrna, TN)
- Osram Sylvania (Danvers, MA)
- Owens Corning (Toledo, OH)
- PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Quad/Graphics, Inc. (Sussex, WI)
- Schneider Electric (Palatine, IL)
- Serious Materials (Sunnyvale, CA)
- Shaw Industries (Dalton, GA)
- Sherwin-Williams, Richmond (Richmond, KY)
- Spirax Sarco, Inc. (Blythewood, SC)
- Thilmany Papers (Kaukauna, WI)
- ThyssenKrupp Waupaca (Waupaca, WI)
- United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, CT)
- Verso Paper (Memphis, TN)
- Volvo Trucks, Inc. (Dublin, VA)
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