2020 Better Plants Progress Update

As of 2020, more than 235 companies partner with DOE in the Better Plants Program and Challenge. To date, partners have saved more than $8 billion dollars and 1.7 quadrillion Btus of energy. Almost 60 partners have met their initial energy reduction goals and many have gone on to set new goals with DOE. Twenty-two new companies joined the program in 2020 and more than a dozen partners joined a newly launched waste pilot designed to deliver further and deeper cost and energy savings.