Meeting Your Wastewater Goals: Customized Training & Toolkit
DOE created the Wastewater Energy Management Toolkit to help wastewater and water resource recovery facilities establish and implement energy management and planning. Reducing energy usage in these facilities can yield significant environmental, economic, and social benefits for local communities. To expand the benefits to the broader wastewater sector, DOE is offering customized training to help more facilities set and achieve their energy efficiency goals. The Toolkit is the product of the Sustainable Wastewater Infrastructure of the Future (SWIFt) Accelerator, through which DOE worked with over 70 wastewater and water resource recovery facilities across the country to accelerate a pathway toward a sustainable infrastructure.
The Toolkit Training is designed to help participants reduce facility-wide energy intensity by 5% in three years and 25% over a 10-year period, using the same tools and resources as SWIFt Accelerator partners. Benefits of signing up include: 
- Access to proven energy-saving tools
- No-cost energy assessments through DOE's Better Plants Program
- Networking and peer exchange opportunities with other facilities
- National recognition on DOE platforms
- And more!
To learn more and sign up, download this factsheet.
The original Sustainable Wastewater Infrastructure of the Future (SWIFt) Accelerator ran from 2016-2019. Partners sought to improve the energy efficiency of their participating water resource recovery facilities by at least 25% and integrate resource recovery measures.
Continuing DOE's efforts in the wastewater sector with a focus on energy recovery, SWIFt 2.0 Accelerator partners commit to implementing at least one next-generation infrastructure improvement project and demonstrating at least a 5% reduction in energy intensity.
This toolkit helps water resource recovery facilities establish and implement energy management and planning. It was developed through the work of DOE's original Sustainable Wastewater Infrastructure Accelerator.