AMO Energy Awareness Month Webinar Series Registration is now closed. Please send any questions to [email protected] October is Energy Awareness Month, the annual national effort to highlight the importance of energy to our national prosperity and security. To celebrate, the Advanced Manufacturing Office hosted a series of free webinars. In partnership with DOE’s Better Plants program, these webinars helped attendees understand strategies to master their energy use, learn best practices from energy efficiency goal achievers, and learn more about the latest developments in AMO’s work to help support manufacturers across the industrial sector. Thursday, Oct 7, 1pm – 2pm ET: Quick start guide to saving energy for small to medium manufacturers More than one-third of the energy consumed in the United States (more than $200B a year) is used to power our manufacturing plants and industrial factories. Saving energy can lead to cost savings and strengthen the company’s manufacturing competitiveness. The vast majority of manufacturing companies in the United States are considered to be small, and for many of these small to medium-sized manufacturers, it can be difficult to know how to tackle saving energy, especially with limited budgets and bandwidth. Join us to learn about The Department of Energy’s Quick Start Guide to Saving Energy for Small and Medium Manufacturers, a resource as you begin your sustainability journey. Download: Saving Energy: A Quick Start Guide for Small to Medium Manufacturers Tuesday, Oct 12, 11am – 12pm ET: The Updated Energy Intensity Baselining and Tracking Guide Join us to learn about the Energy Intensity Baselining and Tracking Guidance, our tool that helps companies meet the Better Plants program’s reporting requirements by describing the steps necessary to develop an energy consumption and energy intensity baseline and to calculate consumption and intensity changes over time. The Department of Energy has developed a free companion Energy Performance Indicator software tool (EnPI) that can be valuable to many types of organizations in the baseline development and tracking process, especially those looking to validate their energy savings. The methodologies and guidance within the document are applicable to any organization interested in developing an energy consumption and intensity baseline to track changes to those metrics on an annual basis. Download: Energy Intensity Baselining and Tracking Guidance Thursday, Oct 14, 1pm – 2pm ET: Understanding your electricity bills Electricity bills can sometimes be very difficult to decipher. Depending on your utility company, your bills can be very long and detailed or quite short, with just a few totals listed. Different charges can appear each month with no apparent explanation of why or how they are calculated. Learning to read your utility bills and understand why your utility charges different fees is very important in maximizing your cost savings through energy efficiency. The Understanding Your Utility Bills: Electricity webinar is intended to help companies learn about and analyze their electric bills. Data collected from utility bills can be used with the DOE Energy Performance Indicator software tool to establish an energy baseline and track progress over time. Download: Understanding Your Utility Bills: Electricity Tuesday, Oct 19, 11am – 12pm ET: Understanding your natural gas bills Analyzing natural gas (NG) bills can sometimes pose unique problems. Depending on your utility company, your bills can be very long and detailed or short, with just a few totals listed. Different charges can appear each month with no apparent explanation of why or how they are calculated. Learning to read your utility bills and understand why your utility charges different fees is critical in maximizing your cost savings through energy efficiency. The Understanding Your Utility Bills: Natural Gas webinar is intended to help companies learn about and analyze their natural gas bills. Data collected from utility bills can be used with the DOE Energy Performance Indicator software tool to establish an energy baseline and track progress over time. Download: Understanding Your Utility Bills: Natural Gas Tuesday, Oct 26, 11am – 12pm ET: Understanding your water bills Analyzing water bills can sometimes pose unique problems. Depending on your utility company, your bills can be very long and detailed or short, with just a few totals listed. Different charges can appear each month with no apparent explanation of why or how they are calculated. Learning to read your utility bills and understand why your utility charges different fees is critical in maximizing your cost savings through energy efficiency. The Understanding Your Utility Bills: Water webinar is intended to help companies learn about and analyze their water bills. Data collected from utility bills can be used with the DOE Energy Performance Indicator software tool to establish an energy baseline and track progress over time. Download: Understanding Your Utility Bills: Water Thursday, Oct 28, 1pm – 2pm ET: Lessons learned from goal achievers Since 2009, more than 250 U.S. manufacturers and industrial-scale energy-using organizations have established ambitious energy intensity reduction goals by joining DOE’s Better Plants program. Having an ambitious goal that is approved and communicated by senior management gives these companies a target to reach and helps focus their efforts towards improving energy efficiency. However, setting an ambitious energy or sustainability goal can be a daunting proposition, particularly if personnel in such companies don’t have enough resources or a coherent plan to achieve it. This webinar showcases key lessons learned from Better Plants goal achievers. Download: Trailblazers and Goal Achievers: How Better Plants Partners Achieved Ambitious Energy Goals
