ENERGY STAR Focus on Energy Efficiency in Bakeries
The “baking focus” is a partnership between EPA’s ENERGY STAR program and baking companies to improve energy efficiency within their operations. Tools are available here to help improve manufacturing energy efficiency, save money, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Annual Food Processing Focus Meeting, September 2019
Bakers can get started on a path of saving energy by using the ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management to build an energy management program, and then work within this food processing focus to learn best practices from the industry. If you are a food processor who wants to get involved in your industry’s efforts to save energy, contact energystrategy@energystar.gov.
Plant energy performance indicator (EPI) tools
ENERGY STAR EPIs assess the energy performance of plants relative to similar plants in the U.S. EPIs and provide a 1 - 100 ENERGY STAR score for a quick understanding of how the plant is performing. Plants receiving a score of 75 or higher are eligible to earn ENERGY STAR certification. EPA has developed EPIs for the following food processing plants:
To learn more about how EPIs are developed, how to interpret an EPI score, and how to value benchmarking view the Benchmarking Industrial Energy Performance guide.
Plant energy guides
Use these energy guide guides find ways to improve the energy performance of your food processing plants:
EPI Technical Documentation
Learn more about how the ENERGY STAR Energy Performance Indicators were developed.
Participating organizations
- American Bakers Association
- Aryzta
- Bimbo Bakeries USA**
- C.H. Guenther & Son*
- Ellison Bakeries
- Flowers Foods*
- Harlan Bakeries
- Klosterman*
- Kroger*
- Mid South Baking
- Mile Hi Baking*
- Mississippi Baking
- Northeast Foods*
- Schulze and Burch Biscuit Co.*
- The Bama Companies, Inc.*
- Tennessee Bun Company*
- Turano Baking Company*
- Treehouse Foods*
- Weston Foods
* denotes ENERGY STAR Partners
** denotes ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year awardees
