DOE Launches Save Energy energy consumption and 27 percent of the Now LEADER Program country's carbon emissions.

Initial LEADER program companies DOE expects that the LEADER companies include: will become pace setters in improving U.S. industrial energy efficiency. In return, • LEADER program participants will receive 3M (St. Paul, Minn.) access to select DOE resources as well as • AT&T (Dallas, Texas) national recognition for their energy • BPM, Inc. (Peshtigo, Wis.) management achievements. • Bridgestone (McMinnville, Tenn.) • Briggs & Stratton (Wauwatosa, Wis.) • Cummins, Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) • Danfoss (Baltimore, Md.) • Didion Milling (Johnson Creek, Wis.) • The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.) • Flambeau River Papers (Park Falls, Wis.) • Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.) • Ingersoll Rand/Trane (Piscataway, N.J.) • Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.) • Based on recommendations from their Save JR Simplot (Boise, Idaho) Energy Now assessment, Shaw Industries in • Manitowoc Grey Iron Foundry Dalton, Ga., installed a waste water heat (Manitowoc, Wis.) exchanger on their Kuster dye line to capture • Mohawk Industries (Dalton, Ga.) excess heat, saving a significant amount of • Neenah Foundry (Neenah, Wis.) money and energy. • Nissan North America (Smyrna, Photo courtesy of: Shaw Industries Tenn.) • Sylvania (Danvers, Mass.) • For over two decades, U.S. industry has Owens Corning (Toledo, ) • worked with DOE's Industrial Technologies PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Program to make good strides in improving • Quad/Graphics, Inc. (Sussex, Wis.) energy efficiency. The LEADER program will • Schneider Electric (Palatine, Ill.) help companies take next steps to best • Serious Materials (Sunnyvale, practices. Calif.) • Shaw Industries (Dalton, Ga.) In targeting industry, DOE's Save Energy • Sherwin-Williams, Richmond Now program has already assisted over (Richmond, Ky.) 2,000 U.S. industrial plants to receive • Spirax Sarco, Inc. (Blythewood, energy assessments in the past three years. S.C.) Those assessments identified opportunities • Thilmany Papers (Kaukauna, Wis.) for $1.3 billion in identified cost savings, 119 • ThyssenKrupp Waupaca (Waupaca, trillion Btu of natural gas savings, and 11.2 Wis.) million metric tons of CO2 savings. • United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Conn.) It is expected that additional companies will • Verso Paper (Memphis, Tenn.) join the initial 30 LEADER companies already • Volvo Trucks, Inc. (Dublin, Va.) announced. The industrial sector still accounts for nearly 30 percent of U.S.