ENERGY STAR Focus on Energy Efficiency in Ready Mix Concrete Manufacturing

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What is the Ready Mix Concrete Manufacturing Focus?

The Focus is a partnership between US EPA's ENERGY STAR program, the National Ready Mix Concrete Association (NRMCA) and ready mix concrete manufacturing companies to improve energy efficiency.

How does the Focus improve energy efficiency?

EPA helps ready mix concrete 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 ready mix concrete manufacturer with plants in the U.S may participate.

Energy management tools and resources

EPA’s ENERGY STAR Ready Mix Concrete 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 ready mix concrete manufacturing plant.

A plant energy performance indicator (EPI) is now under development for ready mix concrete plants. EPI’s are corporate and industry-wide plant standards that enable you to assess how efficiently your plants use energy, relative to similar plants nationwide. An EPI uses basic plant information to provide a percentile ranking of the plant’s energy efficiency by comparing it to the industry’s average and “efficient” plants (defined as performance that is better than 75% of the plants in the industry). When completed, the ready mix concrete plant EPI will enable you to score the energy efficiency of your plant.

For more information on the concrete plant EPI, contact Gale Boyd, Duke University at gab7@econ.duke.edu.

Improve the energy efficiency of your ready mix concrete plant.

EPA's energy guide, Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Concrete Industry discusses energy efficiency practices and technologies that can be implemented right now in your ready mix concrete plants.

• Download the Energy Guide (1.0MB)

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 ready mix concrete energy managers.

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