What Are In-Plant Trainings (INPLTs)?

In-Plant Trainings (INPLTs) are 2–4-day workshops led by Better Plants experts who train participants how to identify, implement, and replicate energy savings projects. INPLTs offer Better Plants partners the opportunity to host or participate in an energy assessment and receive associated training on specific industrial systems. Partners learn about technology fundamentals, receive training on tools, and take away lessons to identify energy savings opportunities and best practices to implement at their own facilities. The technical expertise gained through INPLTs helps organizations address key challenges in adopting energy management practices and technologies.

What In-Plant Training Topics Are Available to Partners?

In-Plant Trainings: by the Numbers

Who Can Participate?

Better Plants partners can apply to host an INPLT at one of their facilities and invite others to attend. With host site permission, the event may be announced to and attended by other Better Plants partners and entities such as Industrial Training and Assessment Centers (ITACs), state energy offices, utility representatives, and vendors.

How do I Benefit?

INPLTs emphasize training and capacity building by providing unbiased and technology-neutral knowledge as well as tools to improve energy efficiency and productivity. Participants learn how to conduct energy assessments, use energy analysis tools to analyze energy savings opportunities, develop energy management systems, and implement energy savings projects. DOE experts emphasize a system-level approach that considers the interaction of individual components and how they are configured within the system to optimize energy efficiency. At the end of the INPLT, participants receive a DOE certificate for completing professional development hours.

To help partners prepare their staff for participating in an INPLT workshop, the Better Plants team has assembled a series of pre-INPLT webinars to act as primers for the various workshop topics, available here. 

Interested in Hosting an In-Plant Training?

Applications to host an In-Plant are available twice a year. The application can be prepared in collaboration with your Technical Account Manager (TAM); you can also contact your TAM or email BetterPlants@ee.doe.gov for more information. To ensure that the data provided is correct, please review the application form and the FAQs carefully before submitting.

Next round of In-Plant Applications will be available in Spring 2026.