Industrial Energy Efficiency as a Resource by Region

摘要

The energy intensity of specific manufacturing sectors can vary greatly from region toregion within the United States. By identifying energy intensity by region, it becomes possible todetermine whether a manufacturing sector in one region has a significantly higher energyintensity than the national average for that sector, in addition to making other cross-regioncomparisons. With this information, regional partnerships, utilities, and state energy offices canbetter identify which regional industries to target when developing and deploying energyefficiency resources.This paper is based on four Energy Efficiency as a Resource regional reports thatexamine the energy intensities for manufacturing industries throughout the four U.S. CensusBureau regions: the Midwest, Northeast, South, and West. These reports were developed by theU.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) using data fromthe U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) and the Energy InformationAdministration’s (EIA) Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS). This paper willidentify areas of opportunity for energy intensity improvement across U.S. regions and industrialsectors.The reports highlight industries with energy intensities above that sector’s nationalaverage in 2006. Using regional average energy prices, energy savings are calculated for eachregion based on the potential for the regionally significant industries to operate at the nationalaverage energy intensity level rather than their current (2006) levels. The reports found that ifthese selected industries had operated at the national average energy intensity in 2006, the sum ofthese energy savings would have been 2,635 trillion Btu, totaling approximately $29.3 billion inenergy cost savings.