The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) named three Champions of Energy Efficiency. Presented to outstanding leaders involved with the industrial sector, the awards recognize leadership and accomplishment in the energy efficiency field. Winners were selected based on demonstrated excellence in program implementation, leadership, research and development, energy policy, private sector initiatives, and international initiatives. The 2005 winners are:
* Peter Salmon-Cox. Since 2001, until his recent retirement from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Peter in his capacity as Technical Lead, Technology Delivery, within the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program has been instrumental in strengthening the strategy and advancing the implementation of the DOE’s BestPractices program.
Peter quickly assumed leadership of the program and helped develop it into a coherent and focused technology delivery strategy. Under his direction, BestPractices rigorously tapped in to multiple channels to promote energy efficiency not only on the plant floor, but also throughout many management levels within the nation’s most energy-intensive manufacturing corporations. Because of his efforts, BestPractices has become among the most effective DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs at achieving and measuring energy savings.
Through Peter’s hard work, BestPractices has worked with 10,644 manufacturing plants and is helping industry save 200 trillion Btu per year (the equivalent of $1 billion dollars in energy costs). These results, buttressed by others throughout his career, reflect Peter’s strategic leadership and diligent efforts to improve and augment outreach to industry, and to advance energy efficiency overall.
* Fred Schoeneborn. The energy management career of Fred Schoeneborn began and blossomed at Mobil Corporation where he developed and directed the company’s energy management program, eventually elevating it to a level that it was considered one of Mobil’s most valuable strategic assets. The fundamental impact Fred had on operations and staff at Mobil was never clearer than when he worked to unify his energy team members and to implement energy efficiency projects totaling over $103 million during a four-year period from 1996 to 1999.
Since his retirement from Mobil Corporation, Fred has served as an invaluable consultant to corporate energy managers in a variety of manufacturing industries. His role as a mentor, coach, educator, and strategist for energy efficiency has been essential to the institutionalization of energy management programs in companies that often receive national recognition due to his skill and dedication. He takes an innovative approach to the management of energy programs by supplementing projects with a high level of corporate visibility, which helps encourage recognition and learning among companies as well as solidifying their commitments to energy efficiency.
Most recently, Fred has begun work with the government’s ENERGY STAR program, continuing his tireless support of energy efficiency in industry and raising the bar of performance of the organizations he touches to world class standards.
* EnSave, Inc. EnSave supports the American agricultural sector with innovative energy conservation and pollution prevention programs by bringing together a diverse community of energy, utility, environmental, and industry groups. Since 1998, EnSave has worked across the United States designing and implementing agricultural energy conservation programs; providing agriculture producers and food processors with cost-effective ways to reduce operating costs while saving energy and reducing pollution; and ultimately using its programs to encourage economic investment in the rural economy and improve the quality of America’s land, air, and water.
In New York alone, through a program involving a number of dairy producers, EnSave helped to save 10,000,000 kWh, reduce NOx emissions by 2.92 tons, and save about $1.2 million in first-year energy costs. Many other similar programs and examples abound. It should be noted that EnSave provides a valuable service to a hard-to-reach and under-served sector agriculture and its multiple dimensions (e.g., dairy, swine, and poultry).
The energy savings for an individual farm may be small, but through the aggregation of a large number of farms, EnSave is able to help a wide cross-section of America’s farms and the rural communities in which they operate. The cultivation of agriculture and rural communities through EnSave’s energy efficiency programs has been instrumental and essential in strengthening the fabric of one of our nation’s primary industries.
These winners were nominated by their peers and selected by a committee of ACEEE’s Board of Directors. Selection criteria were based on the nominee’s impact, innovation, and leadership in the energy efficiency field. For more information on the ACEEE Champions of Energy Efficiency, visit:
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