The Alliance for Industrial Efficiency published a new factsheet that details how manufacturers benefit when they “opt in” to utility industrial energy-efficiency programs.
Although energy use presents a significant cost to manufacturers, there are often cost-effective energy- saving opportunities that companies have not yet captured. Large industrial customers typically report that their energy-efficiency investments must realize a very short (one- to two-year) payback period requirement, which means that many projects that are cost-effective in the long-term will not be approved and initiated.