Energy Efficiency for Everyone: Reduce Factory Energy Waste
Energy is no longer just an operating expense. It’s a strategic issue that affects your bottom line, your competitiveness, and your company’s future. This hands-on training brings every member of your team up to speed on why energy management matters and exactly what they can do about it.
What We’ll Cover
From the moment energy enters your facility to the moment it drives output, we’ll trace how it flows through the systems you rely on every day: motors, HVAC, compressed air, lighting, and process heat. You’ll learn how each system drives both consumption and cost, and how to see them as an interconnected whole rather than isolated pieces.
We’ll introduce Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) as a practical framework for identifying and acting on savings opportunities, and walk through system-level thinking (TSO) to show how coordinated action across departments consistently outperforms one-off fixes. We’ll also break down how rising electricity rates are quietly compressing margins and what that means for long-term growth.
Built for Every Role
Whether you’re on the plant floor, in maintenance, or in the front office, you’ll see concrete examples of how your specific role creates an opportunity to spot waste, support innovation, and shift daily habits. Those behavioral changes alone can unlock 15 to 24 percent in energy savings with no capital investment required.
Walk Away Ready to Act
The session closes with practical, ready-to-use tools: how to report waste, which KPIs to track, how to calculate ROI on capital projects, and how to use standards like ENERGY STAR, ISO 50001, and LEED to benchmark performance and communicate results clearly to customers and investors.
You’ll leave with both the foundational knowledge and the specific next steps to start making an impact in your facility right away.
This training is virtual and all costs for manufacturing employees is paid for from a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Industrial System Energy Efficiency Development (ISEED) Collaborative Program
Introduction to Energy Efficiency for Manufacturing
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