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2009 ENERGY STAR Award Recipients

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Award for Sustained Excellence — Energy Management

3M

St. Paul, Minnesota

3M, a diversified technology company, operates manufacturing facilities around the globe producing more than 55,000 products across seven distinct businesses ranging from consumer products to health care to industrial products. This is 3M’s fifth ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition honoring the company’s continuing growth in energy management. Key accomplishments include:

  • Reducing energy intensity by 5.6 percent in 2008, saving $12.6 million last year and more than $110 million since 1990.
  • Increasing assistance to the top 20 energy-using plants by assisting these in meeting their energy goals; these plants improved energy intensity by 1.8 percent.
  • Demonstrating the importance of energy management globally by increasing the number of energy projects initiated in 2008 by 11 percent.
  • Integrating 17 new facilities into the energy management program.
  • Establishing the new 3M Renewable Energy Division to support advancements in renewable energy markets and continuing the company’s Alternative Energy Working Group to champion greater use of alternative energy at 3M operations.

Managing energy across such a large and diverse organization, 3M Corporate Energy Management developed a new template based on the elements of the ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management to assist divisions and subsidiaries in planning their energy management priorities.

3M’s commitment to the environment and the global community it serves goes beyond the ENERGY STAR partnership. The company is working with the Clinton Climate Initiative’s purchasing alliance as a vendor partner to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by making its energy saving technologies affordable and accessible to cities around the world at greater volume and reduced costs.

3M
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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

ArcelorMittal USA

Chicago, Illinois

ArcelorMittal USA is the largest steelmaker in the world with over 326,000 employees across more than 60 countries. The company is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for the accomplishments of its energy management program, and its progress toward meeting energy efficiency goals. The success of ArcelorMittal's energy management program can be attributed to strong goals and leadership, starting with the company's owners and extending through all layers of management. This is the second time the company has received ENERGY STAR recognition. Key accomplishments include:

  • Achieving a 4.1 percent improvement in energy intensity equivalent to $131 million of annualized savings over the past three years and a one percent reduction in energy use in 2008.
  • Building upon the company's commitment to corporate wide continuous energy improvement by holding its first in-person meeting of the Energy Knowledge Management Program from operations around the world to increase energy collaboration, benchmarking and discussion of challenges.
  • Leading its industry by supporting EPA's development of the ENERGY STAR Focus on Energy Efficiency in Steelmaking.
  • Creating a Clean Technology Fund focused on investing in companies developing clean technology alternatives to fossil fuels for steelmaking and accelerating the pace of bringing these alternatives to market.
  • Investing in improvements at its facilities across the U.S. including steam heater replacement, lighting upgrades, blast furnace gas capture to generate electricity, installation of coke oven gas fired boilers to feed steam to the plant, and using excess heat from a continuous annealing furnace to fuel part of the manufacturing process.
  • Communicating the value of energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR to its nearly 20,000 U.S. employees through company publications and to 750,000 readers through a targeted ad campaign in 2008 which ran in publications such as Purchasing, Appliance, and Roll Call.

Additional activities in 2008 further strengthened the company's global energy program and included the formation of an international research and development group tasked with developing a plant-wide energy assessment model intended to assist the company to make decisions on future capital investments related to energy improvements at plants. ArcelorMittal USA actively shares its understanding of the value of energy efficiency for U.S. manufacturers, explaining its program to individual ENERGY STAR partners and other industries.

ArcelorMittal USA
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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

CalPortland Company

Glendora, California

CalPortland Company is a major supplier of cement, concrete, concrete products, aggregates and asphalt in the western U.S. The company continues to lead its industry in managing energy as part of its advancing, long-term business and environmental strategies. As a third time recipient of ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition, CalPortland continues to surpass the high standards it has for corporate energy management through new initiatives and a continually evolving energy management strategy. Key accomplishments include:

  • Reducing energy intensity by 6.5 percent in 2008 and saving the company approximately $3 million. The energy savings are equivalent to providing electricity for 9,965 American homes.
  • Reducing its Mojave cement plant's electricity needs through energy efficiency and then installing eight 3 MW wind turbines to provide more than 25 million kWh of clean power.
  • Working through its energy value chain to improve the energy footprint of its products by ensuring suppliers provide the most energy-efficient equipment.
  • Creating a new, full-time corporate engineering position, titled Reliability Engineer, who visits plants to optimize maintenance practices and improve reliability.
  • Enhancing the quality of the plant energy assessments conducted by including experts from specialized areas, such as cement processes and chemistry.
  • Communicating the value of energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR along with CalPortland's energy program within its industry, to local communities, and schools.

CalPortland has doubled the size of its operations in the past 3 years. The company's energy management system has grown as well to accommodate the new facilities. The company actively participates in ENERGY STAR's cement industry focus and ranks its cement plants' energy efficiency nationally using the ENERGY STAR energy performance indicator.

CalPortland's concern for the environment is apparent in its willingness to share best practices beyond U.S. borders. CalPortland has hosted instructional plant tours for the Chinese cement industry, helping to ensure a large and growing industry becomes energy-efficient. CalPortland participates in EPA's Climate Leaders program

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CalPortland Company
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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

CEMEX USA

Houston, Texas

CEMEX is a leading global producer of construction products. Its U.S operations provide cement and concrete products through its network of 14 cement plants and more than 50 distribution terminals, more than 115 aggregate quarries, and more than 370 ready-mix concrete plants. CEMEX is committed to reducing its global carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent per metric ton of cement by 2015. The company's Chief Executive Officer supports that commitment and directed that a comprehensive corporate energy management program be instituted across all divisions of the company. Key accomplishments include:

  • Reducing absolute energy use by nearly 3 percent in 2008.
  • Earning the ENERGY STAR label for five of its cement manufacturing plants.
  • Building a corporate-wide energy management system based on ENERGY STAR's Guidelines for Energy Management that incorporates cement, ready mix, aggregate and terminal operations.
  • Tracking energy use at all facilities and benchmarking operations using either the ENERGY STAR energy performance indicator for cement plants or an internal system for aggregate and ready mix plants.
  • Participating actively in the ENERGY STAR cement industry focus and facilitating an initiative of the industry to develop energy tracking metrics that may be used to stimulate cement plant equipment suppliers to provide equivalent information on the energy attributes of new and replacement equipment.
  • Communicating the value of energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR to CEMEX employees in the U.S through informational material in the company's publications and providing instruction in energy management.

CEMEX is pursuing a new limestone mining method which results in lower energy use and eliminates the extensive amount of soil that must be removed in surface mining operations. CEMEX's energy reductions in 2008 are equivalent to providing the electricity for more than 1,540 American homes.

CEMEX USA
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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

Ford Motor Company

Dearborn, Michigan

With approximately 224,000 employees and 90 plants worldwide, Ford Motor Company manufactures and distributes automobiles across six continents. The company continues to expand energy management by replicating successful best practices, including many areas not extensively addressed by manufacturers. This is the second time Ford has been accorded the ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. Key accomplishments in the U.S. include:

  • Improving energy efficiency by 4.4 percent and saving $15.5 million in 2008, despite weakened consumer demand for automobiles; this improvement essentially offset the effect of increased energy prices and brought the company's total energy efficiency gains to 34 percent since 2000.
  • Expanding the coverage and reach of its energy management system to include manufacturing, corporate, research and development, data centers, warehousing, and now key suppliers.
  • Fully utilizing the company's Utility Metering and Monitoring System to track electricity and natural gas consumption for all plants and minimize energy use during extended production down periods, reaching record lows in many facilities.
  • Focusing on core business by creating efficiencies in production, including a new method of preparing bare sheet metal for prime coatings, replication of the 3-wet painting process and the Fumes-to-Fuel abatement system, all which are reducing the cost of manufacturing motor vehicles.
  • Rolling out the Ford ENERGY STAR Challenge with a goal to improve energy efficiency in its Research & Engineering Center by 10 percent; teams achieved 3.9 percent of the goal in 2008.

In 2008, Ford intensified energy management, increasing the frequency of plant energy assessments, utilizing the ENERGY STAR auto assembly plant energy performance rating on a monthly basis to make decisions about plant improvements, and extending the energy program to operations in Canada, Mexico, Asia Pacific, and South America.

The combined effect of Ford's efforts in 2008 is equivalent to the energy required to assemble 95,000 Ford Escape Hybrids.

Ford Motor Company
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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Dallas, Texas

Kimberly-Clark is a leading global health and hygiene company that operates in 37 countries and employs more than 55,000 people around the world. Kimberly-Clark is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for integrating energy efficiency as a key component of the company's sustainability vision. As a company with energy-intensive manufacturing operations, energy efficiency provides the framework for driving continuous improvement of energy performance. Key accomplishments include:

  • Improving energy efficiency by 3.2 percent worldwide and by 1 percent in the U.S. in 2008, for a total improvement of 7.5 percent worldwide and 4.7 percent in the U.S. since 2005.
  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all manufacturing by 2.2 percent.
  • Increasing the amount of renewable and biomass-based energy sources to 22 percent of total energy consumed.

The company's robust global energy management program is supported by senior management and extends down to operations to establish responsibility for energy use. A global energy team of electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineers, and energy supply specialists support energy teams and coordinators at operational facilities. The company has established systematic approach to benchmarking, assessment, and implementation of actions plans across its operations to drive progress towards energy goals.

To further enhance and improve the existing energy program, Kimberly-Clark became an ENERGY STAR partner in 2007. Since joining, the company has leveraged ENERGY STAR resources and networked with ENERGY STAR partners to strengthen the energy program. As a result of their partnership with ENERGY STAR, Kimberly Clark developed and launched an employee motivation, communication and awareness program to gain support of key people throughout the company and build the capability of staff in implementing energy projects.

Beyond the company's active participation in the ENERGY STAR Industrial Focus for the Pulp and Paper Industry, Kimberly-Clark also actively participates in EPA's Climate Leaders, Green Power, Landfill Methane Outreach Program and "SmartWay" Transportation partnerships.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation
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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

Merck & Co., Inc.

Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

Merck & Co., Inc. is a global, research-driven pharmaceutical company known for vaccines and medicines. The company is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for its dedication to finding new ways to improve energy performance. Merck & Co. has been recognized twice as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year and is receiving Sustained Excellence recognition for the second time. Key accomplishments include:

  • Achieving a 4.4 percent reduction in energy intensity in 2008 at U.S. sites, primarily resulting from extensive multi-facility retro-commissioning.
  • Exceeding its energy reduction goal by reducing energy intensity worldwide by 29 percent compared to a 2004 baseline.
  • Elevating and reorganizing energy management into an Energy Center of Expertise focused on improving the company's energy, water and climate change footprints.
  • Enhancing the company's energy management tools by significantly improving the ability to track, manage and compare energy data across the entire corporation.

Merck continues to expand its energy efforts in new directions. Laboratory energy use is a significant energy reduction opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers. In 2008, the company undertook the challenging task of reducing the energy requirements for laboratory ventilation. This effort involved extensive coordination across all major research sites, detailed technical analyses, and extensive training and engagement of the company's scientists.

Merck & Co.'s commitment to the environment extends beyond its ENERGY STAR partnership in its efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of its employees' corporate business travel and to encourage employees to commute by means of mass transit and carpooling. Merck & Co. participates in EPA's Climate Leaders program.

The energy savings achieved by Merck in 2008 are equivalent to powering the electrical needs of 3,600 American homes for a year.

Photo: Merck & Co., Inc.
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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

PepsiCo, Inc.

Purchase, New York

A world leader in the convenience food and beverage markets, PepsiCo is committed to minimizing the impact of its business on the environment through energy management. PepsiCo is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for successfully managing energy as part of the corporation's long-term business and environmental strategies. This is the second time PepsiCo has received ENERGY STAR sustained excellence recognition. Key accomplishments include:

  • Achieving a 30 percent improvement in energy intensity over the past ten years and an almost one percent reduction in absolute energy over the previous year. PepsiCo's energy management efforts saved the company over $90 million in 2008.
  • Promoting energy management and ENERGY STAR through its Resource Conservation Outreach Program. The company provides tools and expertise to contract manufacturers, franchise bottlers, and other suppliers and encourages them to implement energy management practices provided by ENERGY STAR. As a result, well over 40 PepsiCo suppliers have become ENERGY STAR partners.
  • Stretching its limits by progressing on the planning and design for retrofitting the Casa Grande, Arizona plant to be the company's first facility which, when complete, will run almost entirely on renewable fuels and recycled water.
  • Maintaining a forward-looking energy management system where plants are required to develop action plans each year that deliver 150 percent of the annual savings needed to meet goals.
  • Investing in improvements at its facilities across the U.S. including installing the largest rooftop solar array in Arizona, upgrading oven energy performance, and constructing a combined heat and power facility.
  • Communicating energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR at annual events including the company's Sustainability Summit and EcoFair which reach both suppliers and employees.

PepsiCo is an active participant in the ENERGY STAR Food Processing Industry Focus, EPA's Climate Leaders Program, and EPA's Green Power Partnership, where it is recognized as one of the largest green power purchasers in the country.

PepsiCo, Inc.
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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

Raytheon Company

Waltham, Massachusetts

Raytheon Company is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security, and other government markets throughout the world. As a mission driven organization, Raytheon's Enterprise Energy Team (EET) is focused on the continuous improvement of the company's energy performance. Raytheon is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for its robust corporate-wide energy program, which continues to improve its energy performance while motivating employees to get involved. This is the second time Raytheon has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. Key accomplishments include:

  • Achieving a 5.3 percent reduction in energy intensity across its businesses in 2008, equivalent to 84 billion BTU and $20 million in annual revenue. Since 2002, energy performance has improved by more than 33 percent.
  • Communicating energy efficiency effectively to its 73,000 employees through its successful Energy Citizen campaign where employees are encouraged to practice energy efficiency at work and home. More than 21,000 people, 29 percent of the Raytheon workforce, were involved in the 2008 campaign.
  • Refining the infrastructure of its energy program by issuing a new energy policy and purchasing energy sources which result in lower greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Expanding the network of cross-functional, regional energy team members known as Energy Champions to 2,000 members.
  • Engaging its suppliers and vendors to develop robust energy programs and join partnerships such as ENERGY STAR and Climate Leaders.
  • Supporting the ENERGY STAR partnership by sharing best practices and strategies.

Raytheon has achieved a 38 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (per dollar revenue) through 2008. Raytheon exceeded its 33% target one year earlier than committed to through the Climate Leaders program and plans on announcing a new greenhouse gas reduction goal in 2009.

Raytheon Company
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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

Saint-Gobain

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Saint-Gobain is world's largest manufacturer and distributor of flat glass, building products, glass containers and high-performance materials, employing 207,000 people worldwide. Saint-Gobain is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for committing to achieve a 20 percent energy use reduction during the period of 2006 to 2011. This is the first time Saint-Gobain has received ENERGY STAR recognition. Key accomplishments include:

  • Achieving a 2.3 percent reduction in energy intensity in 2008 despite the economic downturn that has impacted the building materials industry.
  • Establishing an extensive network of Energy Champions supported by senior management that spans all major business units. More than 95 percent of the company's energy use is supervised by its Energy Champions.
  • Helping EPA develop two manufacturing plant energy performance indicators for container and fiber glass, and providing extensive review of the models.
  • Utilizing energy metering across operations and disseminating the results to teach employees how to manage energy more efficiently.
  • Communicating the importance of ENERGY STAR and energy efficiency through targeted employee publications and outreach and as a participant in EPA's Change-a-Light, Change the World campaign.
  • Teaching local communities about the benefits of glass recycling, its energy savings, and how to achieve more with ENERGY STAR through an animated children's feature.

Saint-Gobain supports ENERGY STAR's industrial partners by sharing components of its energy management program and best practices. Saint-Gobain actively encourages its partners to manage energy, even suggesting they join ENERGY STAR. The company has multiple projects underway to invest in alternative energy sources. Overall, for 2008, Saint-Gobain's savings equate to the energy required to produce 686,000,000 glass containers or to manufacture the insulation required for 161,000 average homes. These savings are equivalent to 69,156 metric tons of CO2 emissions prevented.

Saint-Gobain
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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

Schering-Plough Corporation

Kenilworth, New Jersey

Schering-Plough Corporation is a science-centered global health care company that applies its research and development platform to human prescription, animal health, and consumer health care products. Schering-Plough is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for its vision of strategic energy management. The company has established twin goals of reducing energy consumption by 10 percent at each site by 2011 and attaining a 5 percent absolute reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 2012 from 2002 levels. Key accomplishments include:

  • Improving energy intensity by 3.7 percent in 2008 under a newly-launched strategic energy management initiative.
  • Installing a 1.7 MW solar photovoltaic system, one of the largest in the United States, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 1,000 tons per year.
  • Building a Web-based global energy data management system to monitor and control energy across its world-wide sites, accounting for over 16 million square feet of facility space.
  • Engaging its workforce in energy management by executing a strategic communication plan to raise awareness of energy issues and educated employees throughout the company.
  • Leading the pharmaceutical industry's support for the completion of a EPA's new energy performance indicator (EPI) for pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in the U.S.

Schering-Plough utilizes a number of ENERGY STAR tools and resources as part of its energy management strategy. It employs the ENERGY STAR pharmaceutical plant energy performance indicator to rank the efficiency of its manufacturing plants nationally and a similar system (ENERGY STAR's Portfolio Manager) to rate the efficiency of its other buildings and warehouses and set improvement goals. The company leverages ENERGY STAR communication resources, benchmarks its program with other partners, and actively participates in the ENERGY STAR Pharmaceutical Focus and laboratory benchmarking initiative.

Schering-Plough's concern for the environment is further demonstrated by its partnership with EPA's Climate Leaders program.

Schering-Plough Corporation
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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

Sunoco, Inc.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sunoco, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products. The company has embraced the philosophy that corporations have a responsibility for the environment and must conduct all aspects of their business as responsible stewards. Sunoco is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for demonstrating a commitment to protecting the environment in its comprehensive focus on energy management across its operations. This is the first time Sunoco has received ENERGY STAR recognition. Key accomplishments include:

  • Improving energy use intensity by 4 percent across petroleum refining operations in 2008. Petroleum refining represents three quarters of the company's energy use. The energy reduction is equivalent 1.2 trillion BTUs or saving 8.4 million gallons of imported oil from use.
  • Building a corporate-wide energy management system based on ENERGY STAR's Guidelines for Energy Management that includes all operations: petroleum refining, petrochemical production, coking operations, marketing/retail, and professional services.
  • Incorporating energy efficiency as a consideration in future facility expansions and upgrades.
  • Creating an extensive, internal plant energy assessment process, in part, based on information learned through ENERGY STAR's petroleum refining focus and industrial partner network. Sunoco's Treasure Hunts have identified nearly 300 capital and 140 non-capital projects in the company's refining business alone.
  • Participating actively in the ENERGY STAR Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Manufacturing Focuses as well as supporting focuses for the pulp & paper and glass industries by sharing its program with these groups.
  • Communicating the value of energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR to its employees and communities through targeted company publications.

Under Sunoco's corporate energy management system, each business unit has a set of next steps to follow for improving energy intensity. The energy performance of the company's administrative buildings is evaluated using EPA's Portfolio Manager, and energy is a major consideration when Sunoco leases new office space. Fleet energy is tracked carefully for delivery trucks, and these have been equipped with automatic systems that significantly reduce idling and maximize fuel efficiency. Since 1998, Sunoco's greenhouse gas emissions have decreased by 8.5 percent.

Sunoco, Inc.
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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Erlanger, Kentucky

A world-renowned automaker, Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. is the North American manufacturing headquarters for Toyota vehicles. Founded on the principles of continuous improvement and respect for people, Toyota is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for continuing to enhance its energy management systems and sharing its expertise with other manufacturers. This is the fourth time Toyota has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. Toyota continues to build on its management systems to reduce energy waste and share this expertise with other manufacturers. Key accomplishments include:

  • Reducing energy use by 7.2 percent on an absolute basis compared to the previous year, despite the 2008 market conditions that caused automobile producers to idle manufacturing capacity.
  • Developing a transformative supplier program to teach businesses to manage energy including how to conduct plant energy savings assessments, known as Treasure Hunts, and how to secure management support for project implementation. The first training session held in suppliers' facilities identified 95 energy reduction opportunities for these companies.
  • Continuing to identify new methods for reducing the energy requirements of its manufacturing processes such as optimizing paint booth conditions.
  • Adapting the EPA's energy performance indicator (EPI) for auto assembly plants so that North American and Japanese plants can be evaluated together in a common system.
  • Earning the ENERGY STAR for four of its assembly plants using ENERGY STAR's newly revised EPI for these facility types.

Toyota serves as a model for energy management by openly sharing its systems, best practices, strategies and management techniques with other ENERGY STAR partners including medium-size companies in need of basic technical assistance, as well as local schools and organizations.

Toyota's commitment to harmonize with the environment is emphasized in the Toyota Earth Charter which supports the potential use of renewable energy in its North American facilities.

Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc.
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Special Recognition for Excellence in Program Development

Fetter Printing Company

Louisville, Kentucky

Since 1888, Fetter Printing Company, has served the printing needs of automotive, industrial and consumer and coatings companies. The company is being recognized for integrating ENERGY STAR and its energy management approach into its corporate sustainability strategy. Key achievements in 2008 include:

  • Achieving a 16 percent reduction in energy intensity in 2008 across its printing, office and warehouse operations.
  • Developing its energy management program based on ENERGY STAR tools and resources.
  • Communicating the value of energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR to clients, employees and surrounding communities.