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Duke Energy Summary
Buildings
  • Duke is improving energy efficiency in owned or leased office space across its five-state service area. 
  • Duke performed lighting upgrades in 2007 that it projected would save 1.5 gigawatt hours peryear by 2008. 
  • Duke teamed with Cree Inc. to evaluate LED lighting for commercial use. 
  • Duke installed 19 outdoor LED lights at its Durham, NC office to replace standard high-pressure sodium light fixtures. The project will provide data to evaluate the technology’s energy efficiency and longevity.
Internal
  • Duke created a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Fund to invest in energy efficiency and other GHG reducing projects. 
  • In 2007, Duke’s GHG Reduction Fund awarded $3 million to fund 46 energy efficiency projects at generating stations and office facilities, as well as renewable energy projects. This resulted in the avoidance of 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, plus additional tons in 2008 and beyond. In 2008, another $3 million was allocated to fund 36 energy efficiency projects.
Products & Services
  • Duke will invest $1 billion in smart grid technology over the next five years. 
  • In 2007, Duke developed the Save-a-Watt program and filed for regulatory approval in NC, SC and IN. In 2008, the company filed with state regulators in OH and KY. Under this plan, Duke seeks to sell energy efficiency as a resource to its customers. 
  • Duke’s Ohio customers were the first to participate in a collaboration between Duke, GE and Wal-Mart to make energy efficiency more affordable. Duke provided customers with coupons for $3 off GE compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs at Wal-Mart. Approximately 30,000 customers redeemed these coupons for more than 225,000 CFLs during the promotion. Given this success, Duke expanded the partnership to include Sam’s Club, Home Depot and Lowe’s. 
  • Duke’s Home Energy House Call program provides free in-home energy analysis to help customers determine the most cost-effective steps to save energy. 
  • For more than 20 years, Duke has collaborated with People Working Cooperatively to provide free home weatherization improvements to low-income, elderly and disabled homeowners in Cincinnati, Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Services include furnace or heat pump cleaning and tune-up, CFLs, water heater wrap and weather stripping.
Success
  • In 2007, Duke’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awarded $3 million to fund 46 energy efficiency projects at generating stations and office facilities, as well as renewable energy projects. This resulted in the avoidance of 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, plus additional tons in 2008 and beyond. In 2008, another $3 million was allocated to fund 36 energy efficiency projects.
  • Duke’s Ohio customers were the first to participate in a collaboration between Duke, GE and Wal-Mart to make energy efficiency more affordable. Duke provided customers with coupons for $3 off GE compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs at Wal-Mart. Approximately 30,000 customers redeemed these coupons for more than 225,000 CFLs during the promotion. Given this success, Duke expanded the partnership to include Sam’s Club, Home Depot and Lowe’s. 

Duke Energy is one of the largest electric power companies in the United States

Duke Energy, is a member of the Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), the largest U.S.-based association of companies dedicated to business and policy solutions to climate change. Duke is one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplying and delivering energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. The company has approximately 36,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky.
DuPont Summary
Internal
  • DuPont committed to its first energy goal in 1989 – to reduce energy use (measured in BTUs per pound of finished product) by 15 percent by 2000. By 2000, DuPont held total energy use flat versus 1990 levels, despite a 35 percent increase in production, and further committed to hold total energy use flat for the next decade. DuPont estimates that its energy efficiency initiatives saved the company about $4 billion between 1990 and 2008.
  • To accelerate the company’s improvement in energy efficiency, DuPont has extended their “Bold Energy Plan” to 2012. This plan requires the company’s 100 largest sites to establish an annual energy reduction target based on the elimination of defects in energy-using systems. Collectively, the sites are working on over 500 defect-elimination projects that will continue to reduce energy use globally.
  • DuPont set a goal to transition its sales and marketing fleet to more fuel-efficient vehicles, with the goal of a 100 percent energy-efficient fleet by 2015.
  • At Sabine River Works site (Texas), the company’s largest energy consuming location, DuPont improved overall site energy efficiency by 40 percent in 2008 versus the previous year, resulting in annualized energy savings of 1,564,000 MMBtu, and the equivalent greenhouse gas reduction of 181,000 tons.
  • DuPont achieved this through a program of process improvements and capital expenditures. Some of the specific projects that contributed to improvement include improved process distillation, process to process heat exchanges, improved furnace combustion, improved turbine drive blades and nozzles, reduced fouling of heat exchanger surfaces, and preheating of process streams.
Products & Services
  • DuPont has set a corporate goal to increase its annual revenues by at least $2 billion by 2015 from products that create energy efficiency and/or significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. DuPont estimates these products will result in at least 40 million tons of additional carbon dioxide equivalent reductions by its customers and consumers.
  • DuPont is committed to bringing solar energy into the mainstream by reducing the cost of current photovoltaic systems by 50-60 percent, improving system efficiency, lifetime, and system cost with new technical centers and labs situated around the world.  DuPont is also working to improve cell metallization that dramatically increases the efficiency of a solar cell, innovating technology to reduce material consumption, introducing new cell and module designs, eliminating the need for some materials altogether, and finding ways to make modules lighter thereby reducing the cost of construction and installation.
  • In biofuels, DuPont is studying advances made from plant materials including corn and sugarcane as well as non-food, cellulosic feedstocks such as corn stover, switchgrass, and algae.  
  • Tyvek, a synthetic material developed by DuPont used commonly in construction, can improve energy efficiency of buildings, with energy savings in the first year of use 10-20 times the energy required for production. 
  • DuPont is engineering polymers in applications like intake manifolds to help reduce the weight of motor vehicles and improve fuel efficiency. 
  • DuPont has other products that promote energy efficiency, such as the Cyrel® FAST printing systems that use less energy than other flexo printing systems and Nomex® which is used as an insulating material in wind turbines.
Success
  • DuPont committed to its first energy goal in 1989 – to reduce energy use (measured in BTUs per pound of finished product) by 15 percent by 2000. By 2000, DuPont held total energy use flat versus 1990 levels, despite a 35 percent increase in production, and further committed to hold total energy use flat for the next decade. DuPont estimates that its energy efficiency initiatives saved the company about $4 billion between 1990 and 2008.  DuPont’s energy per pound of product is down 41% versus 1990.
  • At Sabine River Works site (Texas), the company’s largest energy consuming location, DuPont improved overall site energy efficiency by 40 percent in 2008 versus the previous year, resulting in annualized energy savings of 1,564,000 MMBtu, and the equivalent greenhouse gas reduction of 181,000 tons.
  • DuPont achieved this through a program of process improvements and capital expenditures. Some of the specific projects that contributed to improvement include improved process distillation, process to process heat exchanges, improved furnace combustion, improved turbine drive blades and nozzles, reduced fouling of heat exchanger surfaces, and preheating of process streams.

Dupont is one of the world’s largest chemical companies

DuPont is a member of the Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), the largest U.S.-based association of companies dedicated to business and policy solutions to climate change. DuPont is a science company.  Founded in 1802, the company puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere.  Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation and apparel. 
Entergy Summary
Internal
  • Entergy is working at the corporate level to promote energy conservation among its employees, customers and community members. For example, Entergy held its first companywide We’ve Got the Power to Care Week during which 150 Entergy volunteers in 14 communities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas distributed 5,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs and weatherized 32 homes.
Products & Services
  • In 2009 Entergy Texas met its energy efficiency program goals for reducing residential and commercial customer demand growth by 20 percent through market-based standard offer programs and limited, targeted market transformation programs.
  • In 2009 the New Orleans City Council collaborated with Entergy New Orleans on an Energy Smart program, which offers customer rebates for improvements such as adding insulation, sealing ducts and weatherizing homes or offices using a qualified contractor.
  • In 2009 Entergy Mississippi expanded its energy efficiency efforts through a rider approved by the Mississippi Public Service Commission to provide weatherization kits to the first 20,000 customers that complete an online home audit. In addition, student weatherization kits and energy efficiency curriculum guides will be provided to five public high schools in a related pilot program.
  • In total, Entergy helped support the weatherization of more than 5,200 homes across its utility service territories, which lowers utility bills for customers and reduces damaging CO2 emissions.

Entergy is a global energy company with power production, distribution operations, and related diversified services

Entergy is a member of the Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), the largest U.S.-based association of companies dedicated to business and policy solutions to climate change. Entergy is a global energy company with power production, distribution operations, and related diversified services. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The company’s business segments are utility and non-utility nuclear. It also operates a non-nuclear wholesale assets business. The company is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Exelon Summary
Buildings
Cross-cutt
  • The Exelon companies have continued to implement a wide range of initiatives to educate customers and reach out to the communities we serve. ComEd (an Exelon subsidiary) sponsored the Smart Home: Green + Wired exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Launched in 2008, the 12 Ways to Green year-long campaign raised awareness about energy efficiency and ComEd’s environmental initiatives. In 2009, ComEd will expand its efforts to focus on long-term energy and cost savings for customers as well as the related environmental impact of efficiency measures. Additionally, ComEd’s Smart Ideas For Your Home program launched in June 2008 to provide residential customers incentives, tools and tips to help them save money, become more energy efficient and help the environment. A primary focus for ComEd’s education efforts includes the promotion of its website. ComEd.com features easy access to program information and other tools such as the on-line Energy Home Energy Analysis Tool, the on-line Energy Store, the “Showcase of Homes” and “Ask the Energy Doctor.”
  • PECO (an Exelon subsidiary), in partnership with The Franklin Institute’s Center for Innovation in Science Learning and the National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project, has developed an environmental education program for middle schools. The program focuses on the sources, uses and conservation of energy and includes a classroom component, a school energy audit, a home energy audit kit, a field trip to a generation facility and a grant for a project in the school community. In 2009, PECO piloted the program at six area middle schools; in 2010, the pilot will expand to include at least 10 schools.
  • PECO has also formed a partnership with Energy Star to provide consumers with more energy saving tools through the company’s website. Other programs include EnergySaver kits and high efficiency heat pump rebate programs.
  • In 2008, Exelon Generation opened the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-silver certified Exelon Renewable Energy Education Center at its landfill gas electricity generating facility in Fairless Hills, Penn. This facility features information on conservation and renewable energy technologies and provides a variety of educational resources; similar enhancements are planned for the Conowingo Hydroelectric Visitor Center.
Internal
  • Exelon’s Environmental Strategy Energy Efficiency Team supports 74 Exelon Energy Delivery (EED) facilities and 8,200 employees. The team is charged with improving efficiency at EED facilities by 3 percent per year in 2003-2007. Exelon is expanding the program to other facilities. 
  • Exelon’s strategy includes a budget for collateral materials, facility benchmarking and energy audits, efficiency retrofits and a multiyear communications plan focused on employees. 
  • For 2004, EED reduced energy consumption by 7 million kilowatt hours (kWh) compared to the 2002 baseline. Normalizing the data based on 30-year averages and the current year heating and cooling degree-days resulted in an improvement of 4 percent in 2003 and 3.8 percent in 2004, thus exceeding the goal each year. 
  • In 2008, Exelon’s focus on its own energy usage yielded projects and process changes resulting in a reduction of close to 12 million kWh annually.
  • Efficient Generating Facilities: Exelon Generation has achieved a 5 percent reduction in energy use through a variety of projects that have included replacing more than 5,700 lights, installing more than 160 office occupancy sensors, lowering water heater settings and shutting down electronic equipment at the end of the day.
  • In 2008, Exelon replaced the lighting system in the administrative offices at its Fairless Hills, PA landfill gas electric generating plant. This change will reduce annual energy use by more than 70 percent, while more than doubling the light output in the plant. Current plans call for additional air conditioning and lighting system improvements at five facilities, among them the Cantera Nuclear headquarters and the Kennett Square offices of Generation and Power Team.
  • Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification Efforts: Exelon is conforming to LEED criteria at sites where it is economically sound to do so. Exelon currently has three LEED-certified facilities: its Chicago Chase Tower headquarters (the largest commercial office renovation to gain LEED Platinum certification), Exelon Generation’s Renewable Energy Education Center in Fairless Hills, Penn. and PECO’s West Chester service building.
  • In Illinois, Exelon Nuclear completed the construction of a new administration building at Clinton Nuclear Power Station that employs day lighting, low-flow fixtures and efficient heating and cooling systems. Nuclear expects to earn LEED certification for it in 2009. Exelon has also applied for LEED certification for a building at the Clinton Nuclear Power Station and will seek certification of five additional buildings or projects later this year.
  • Exelon is also working on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its vehicle fleet. In 2008, Exelon incorporated efficient hybrid-electric and alternative-fuel vehicles in internal operations. Exelon also introduced new vehicle guidelines to maximize fuel efficiency and reduce fleet emissions over time.
Products & Services
  • ComEd (an Exelon subsidiary) offers financial incentives for large commercial, institutional and industrial customers to use customized curtailment plans, contributing 1,000 megawatt reduction to system peak loads.
  • PECO (an Exelon subsidiary) has three ‘Smart Returns’ products: (1) active load management (ALM), in which participating customers must reduce energy consumption within one hour of PECO’s request, designed to respond to emergency events within the regional transmission organization, (2) voluntary load reduction, in which customers receive a one hour notification to curtail consumption and share in a percent of PECO’s cost savings, and (3) voluntary Economic and Emergency Load Response Programs, which provide an additional Smart Returns choice for potential load response customers. 
  • In 2006, ComEd’s demand response portfolio represented half of the potential peak load reduction in the PJM regional transmission organization. 
  • More than 600 ComEd customers participate in the utility’s “Real-Time Pricing Programs” that provide hourly pricing information and bills them for the power they consume based on hourly market prices, which can lead to system-wide energy savings. 
  • In 2004, Exelon conducted a benchmark study evaluating energy efficiency opportunities such as lighting retrofits and solar domestic water heating for the city’s firehouses; completed lighting retrofits at several Transit Authority and City Colleges of Chicago facilities, including bus garages, repair shops, classrooms, laboratories, gymnasiums and swimming pools.
Supply
  • Exelon was the first U.S.-based utility to join the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration. As part of its "Exelon 2020 strategy", the company is asking its top suppliers to voluntarily disclose information on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption.
  • As one of the founders of the Electric Utility Industry Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance (EUISSCA), Exelon is working to improve environmental performance in electric utility industry supply chains. This includes the development of voluntary, consensus-based standards for evaluating the environmental attributes of key materials (such as poles, wires and transformers) and services provided to the electric utility industry. It also includes standards for the environmental performance of both suppliers to the electric utility industry and the electric utilities’ internal supply chain operations.
  • Using EUISSCA standards as a guide, Exelon has integrated environmental criteria into its sourcing process. The company now evaluates the environmental performance of prospective suppliers and encourages them to propose innovative solutions for reducing Exelon’s carbon footprint.
  • In December 2008, Exelon joined the Green Suppliers Network program as a Corporate Champion and committed to sponsor five of its suppliers through a “lean and clean” assessment in 2009.
  • Exelon is working to reduce the environmental impacts of its supply chain by greening its warehouse operations and optimizing logistics. The company avoided 105,000 metric tons of GHG emissions and generated nearly $20 million in revenues in 2008 by recycling or re-using more than 30 million pounds of scrap metal and other solid material and 700,000 gallons of oil. Exelon introduced reusable pallet boxes and significantly reduced its use of standard packaging materials. In addition, the company is installing more efficient lights and motion sensors in its warehouses, and optimizing delivery routes and order quantities to reduce vehicle trips. 
Success
  • In 2008, Exelon’s focus on its own energy usage yielded projects and process changes resulting in reductions of almost 12 million kilo-watt hours annually.

Exelon is one of the largest electric and gas companies in the United States.

Exelon is a member of the Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), the largest U.S.-based association of companies dedicated to business and policy solutions to climate change. Exelon is one of the nation’s largest electric and gas energy companies with more than $15 billion in annual revenues. It distributes electricity to more than 5.2 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and natural gas to approximately 472,000 customers in southeastern Pennsylvania.
GE Summary
Internal
  • GE’s “1-30-30” energy efficiency commitment is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by one percent by 2012, to decrease the intensity of emissions by 30 percent by 2008, and to improve energy efficiency by 30 percent by the end of 2012, all against a 2004 baseline.
  • In 2008, GE exceeded these goals, by achieving a 41 percent reduction in GHG intensity, and by a 37 percent improvement in energy efficiency. 
  • GE used Toyota’s “treasure hunt” process to identify energy efficiency opportunities at 150 facilities, and performed lighting upgrades at 62 facilities and also leveraged its Global Research Center to eliminate 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent at a facility. 
  • GE developed "eCO2" - a site certification and awards program that recognizes the best performers in improved energy efficiency.
Products & Services
  • GE’s ecomagination line of products includes a number of products that are significantly more energy efficient than other models. In 2008, GE had revenues of $17 billion attributable to ecomagination. 
  • GE is investing in its Evolution Series locomotive platform to increase fuel efficiency. 
  • GE’s ‘GEnx’ airplane engine consumes 15 percent less fuel and reduces nitrogen oxide emissions by 30 percent.
Success
  • GE’s “1-30-30” energy efficiency commitment is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by one percent by 2012, to decrease the intensity of emissions by 30 percent by 2008, and to improve energy efficiency by 30 percent by the end of 2012, all against a 2004 baseline.
  • In 2008, GE exceeded these goals, by achieving a 41 percent reduction in GHG intensity, and by a 37 percent improvement in energy efficiency. 
  • GE’s ecomagination line of products includes a number of products that are significantly more energy efficient than other models. In 2008, GE had revenues of $17 billion attributable to ecomagination. 

GE is a diversified company operating in: energy and technology, and financial services sector

GE is a member of the Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), the largest U.S.-based association of companies dedicated to business and policy solutions to climate change. GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company focused on solving some of the world’s toughest problems. With products and services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, water processing and security technology to medical imaging, business and consumer financing, media content and advanced materials, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide.
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GM is one of the world's largest automakers.

 

 

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