ENERGY STAR Focus on Energy Efficiency in Cement Manufacturing

What is the Cement Manufacturing Focus?

The Focus is a partnership between US EPA's ENERGY STAR program and cement companies to improve energy efficiency.

How does the Focus improve energy efficiency?

EPA helps cement manufacturers overcome barriers to using energy efficiently and provides energy management resources unique to this industry. In all cases, strategic corporate energy management is promoted as the basis for achieving long-term, sustained energy savings.

Who may participate?

Any cement manufacturer with plants in the U.S. may participate.

Energy management tools and resources

EPA's ENERGY STAR Cement Manufacturing Focus has tools and resources to help you improve energy efficiency, save money, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Score the energy performance of your cement plant.

Use EPA's cement plant energy performance indicator (EPI) to assess how efficiently your plant uses energy, relative to similar plants nationwide. The system's 1–100 scale enables you to quickly understand how your plant is performing — a score of 50 indicates average energy performance, while a score of 75 or better indicates top performance. Plants receiving an EPI score of 75 or higher are eligible to earn nationally recognized ENERGY STAR certification. If your plant scores 75 or above, learn how you can apply for the ENERGY STAR.

• Download the Cement Plant EPI
• Read about the Cement Plant EPI (1.0MB)
• Read about how the original EPI was updated in 2011 (470KB)

Learn about how ENERGY STAR has helped the cement industry improve energy performance.

Duke University evaluated the improvement in the U.S. cement industry’s energy efficiency. Important findings include:

• Energy intensity improved 13 percent.
• The energy performance of the industry’s least efficient plants changed most dramatically.
• Total source energy savings are 60.5 trillion Btu annually.
• Environmental savings are 1.5 million metric tons of energy-related carbon.

The improvement in the energy intensity of cement manufacturing plants over a ten year period is illustrated below.

Read more at: Measuring Improvement in the Energy Performance of the U.S. Cement Industry

Improve the energy efficiency of your cement plant.

EPA's energy guide, Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for Cement Making discusses energy efficiency practices and technologies that can be implemented right now in your cement plants.

• Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for Cement Making (769KB)

Develop a corporate energy strategy.

Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead is a groundbreaking report that guides companies through the process of evaluating future energy risks and enables them to set a robust energy strategy for the future.

Build a corporate energy management program.

EPA's ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management outline the steps for creating a corporate energy management program.

Assess your energy management program.

EPA's Energy Management Assessment Matrix is a quick and easy way to compare your corporate energy practices to those outlined in the Guidelines for Energy Management and help you identify areas for improvement.

Network and learn from cement energy managers.

Energy managers from cement manufacturing companies participating in the ENERGY STAR focus meet annually to network among themselves, learn together about the challenges confronting energy management in their businesses and identify solutions.