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Alcoa has established energy efficiency as one of the metrics influencing variable compensation of the company’s business leaders.
Cummins developed an Energy Champion program to train facility staff to identify opportunities to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in 5-10% energy use reduction at participating sites.
Ford Motor Company launched a national Go Green Sustainability Program that has helped identify 27% savings opportunities in participating Ford dealerships and resulted in $33,000 annual savings.
GE incorporated energy efficiency into its management training program to accelerate the development of entry-level talent into energy leadership roles. Since its launch, staff have identified 572 energy projects totaling $6.4 million in savings
GM’s creation of an Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) model helped double the amount of money directed towards energy conservation from $40 million to $80 million.
HARBEC captures economic and environmental benefits by adopting a new finance method that evaluates potential projects over the entire course of their expected lives.
Legrand overcame a lack of energy use data by installing submeters and energy dashboards to track and communicate facility-wide energy use, driving organization change the pursuit of energy efficiency opportunities.
Saint-Gobain appoints an employee energy champion at every plant to provide energy efficiency leadership, coordination, oversight, and recognition.
Schneider Electric employs a predictive modeling technique that adjusts baseline energy use to control for factors that impact energy consumption such as production and weather changes.
To help meet ambitious water-saving goals, UTC developed comprehensive internal guidance that details the company's global water scarcity assessment, best practices in managing water efficiency at individual sites, and water saving case studies.
Arlington County established a climate action program, now called the Arlington Initiative to Rethink Energy, to raise the profile of energy awareness across county activities. The county is saving approximately $1 million per year in avoided costs through electricity, natural gas, and water upgrades.
The City of Atlanta leveraged a public–private partnership to create the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge, which provides access to project financing, free building assessments, education and training, and public recognition.
With the help of Energy Trust of Oregon, the City of Beaverton participated in a three-year real time energy monitoring program that provided consistent and transparent building performance data. This allowed the city to identify low- and no-cost recommendations that have led to energy savings of up to 23%.
Cleveland, OH's municipal action plan enabled the city to accelerate its sustainability efforts in a more coordinated and impactful manner, and is expected to result in a 20% annual utility savings by 2030.
Washington, D.C. took a multi-pronged approach to achieve the city's energy reduction goals with its community-wide planning initiative, legislation, and public-private partnerships.
El Paso, TX launched a Library Energy Challenge to engage city employees and residents in energy efficiency and conservation; it was such a success that the city applied the model to other departments.
The Fort Worth Better Buildings Challenge was launched in 2012, a public-private partnership to facilitate energy and water improvements in commercial buildings as well as city facilities.
Gillette, WY’s inventory and tracking tool helps the city better manage the maintenance and repair of HVAC equipment, proactively prepare for associated capital needs, and reduce the perception of risk to invest in more efficient equipment.
The City of Hillsboro (OR), which plans to reduce municipal facility energy use by 60% by 2030, overcame inconsistent access to capital for efficiency projects by setting up a Sustainability Revolving Fund that has achieved an estimated $24,000 in annual cost savings.
Houston leveraged an ongoing community outreach program to strengthen participant commitments to reduce energy consumption.
Kitsap County, WA engaged its neighbor Pierce County in a Courthouse Energy Challenge to see which courthouse could decrease energy use the most. Pierce County won the challenge with a 31% energy reduction.
Knoxville convened a public-private task force to develop a comprehensive energy plan for implementing energy efficiency improvements, financing projects, and tracking energy data.
1300 East Rochelle is a Sprint-owned and CBRE-managed general business use office building located in Irving, TX that significantly reduced energy use by 51% through the installation of high efficiency chillers, the addition of economizers and demand control ventilation, and lighting upgrades.
The City of Los Angeles created the Better Buildings Challenge to simplify the path to energy efficiency for local businesses and public entities. The Challenge provides participating buildings owners and operators with access to a wide range of services such as energy benchmarking, building assessments, utility rebate training, and more.
Pittsburgh, PA established a Green Initiatives Trust Fund to set aside funds for energy conservation projects and utilizes the savings to fund future projects.
Will County used results from free energy audits to inform an efficiency education and outreach program that has achieved a 22% reduction in energy use while building occupant engagement.
Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
Citi used an energy services agreement to deliver efficient electricity and cooling at its London data center. The project is expected to deliver $1.1 million in annual cost savings.
Prologis, Inc., took advantage of commercial PACE financing to retrofit its headquarters at the historic Pier 1 building in San Francisco. The projects financed are projected to reduce electricity consumption by 32% and save nearly $100,000 annually.
Metrus Energy deployed multi-measure energy efficiency retrofits in BAE Systems facilities with no upfront costs using an Energy Services Agreement (ESA).
The partnership between the municipal electric and water utility with a regional investor-owned gas utility allowed both participants to efficiently deploy multiple “tri-resource” incentive programs to residential and commercial customers in their joint territory, including statewide incentive programs.
Southern California Edison developed an automated benchmarking service to enable building owners to comply with benchmarking legislation and empower them to understand the energy usage of their buildings.
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) launched a utility-driven approach to encourage 53,000 building owners to benchmark their buildings and engage in active energy management, while making owners aware of PG&E’s free M&V tools.
UC Irvine's empirically derived technical and behavioral performance improvement program supports risk-taking and questions status-quo practices to produce exceptional results across the board.
Southern California Edison created the Energy Leader Partnership program to assist cities in developing energy policies and deploying multi-measure energy efficiency upgrades resulting in more green energy jobs, lower GHG emissions, and reduced energy costs.
Southern California Edison introduced an On-Bill Financing Program to overcome the upfront capital cost barrier in conducting energy efficiency projects, providing over $10 million in loans for eligible business customers.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center leveraged its comprehensive in-house energy program and local utility provider to identify significant energy saving opportunities at the Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI), including lighting retrofit projects and energy-saving opportunities for the existing mechanical systems. MWRI is on track to achieve 22% annual energy savings.