During my time at Energetics, I've been given opportunities to work on energy bandwidth studies for clients at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Energy bandwidth studies can serve as foundational references in framing the range (or bandwidth) of potential energy savings opportunities in U.S. manufacturing. These bandwidth studies examine energy consumption and potential energy savings opportunities in U.S. manufacturing. Each study relies on multiple sources to estimate the energy used for processes in specific manufacturing sub-sectors, representing a certain percentage of sector-wide energy consumption in a baseline year of 2010. Energy savings opportunities for the processes studied in the selected sub-sectors are based on technologies currently in use or under development; these potential savings are then extrapolated to estimate sector-wide energy savings opportunity.
As an integral project member of the 2016 Bandwidth studies, I've been involved in the analysis and report drafting efforts for the following manufacturing industries:
Cement manufacturing (published September 2017)
Food and beverage manufacturing (published September 2017)