The cost of energy as part of the total production costs in the cement industry is significant, warranting attention for energy efficiency to improve the bottom line. Historically, energy intensity...
The U.S. glass industry is comprised of four primary industry segments--flat glass, container glass, specialty glass, and fiberglass--which together consume $1.6 billion in energy annually. On...
Energy Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for the Cement Industry (2008)
This report provides information on the energy savings, costs, and carbon dioxide emissions reductions associated with implementation of a number of technologies and measures applicable to the cement...
World Best Practice Energy Intensity Values for Selected Industrial Sectors (2007)
Worrell, Ernst, Price, Lynn, Neelis, Maarten, Galitsky, Christina, Zhou, Nan
"World best practice" energy intensity values, representing the most energy-efficient processes that are in commercial use in at least one location worldwide, are provided for the production of iron...
Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Eric Masanet, Ernst Worrell, Wina Graus, Christina Galitsky, Eric Masanet, ...
This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government. While this document is believed to contain correct information, neither the United States Government nor...
Sectoral trends in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (2006)
Price, Lynn, Sinton, Jonathan, Worrell, Ernst, Zhou, Nan, Sathaye, Jayant, ...
Reducing California's Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Product Life-Cycle Optimization (2005)
Masanet, Eric, Price, Lynn, Worrell, Ernst
Product life-cycle optimization addresses the reduction of environmental burdens associated with the production, use, and end-of-life stages of a product s life cycle. In this paper, we offer an...
Development of Energy Balances for the State of California (2005)
Murtishaw, Scott, Price, Lynn, Masanet, Eric, Worrell, Ernst, Sahtaye, Jayant
Analysts assessing energy policies and energy modelers forecasting future trends need to have access to reliable and concise energy statistics. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory evaluated several...
Benchmarking and Self-Assessment in the Wine Industry (2005)
Galitsky, Christina, Radspieler, Anthony, Worrell, Ernst, Healy, Patrick, Zechiel, Susanne
Not all industrial facilities have the staff or the opportunity to perform a detailed audit of their operations. The lack of knowledge of energy efficiency opportunities provides an important barrier...
BEST Winery Guidebook: Benchmarking and Energy and Water Savings Tool for the Wine Industry (2005)
Galitsky, Christina, Worrell, Ernst, Radspieler, Anthony, Healy, Patrick, Zechiel, Susanne
Not all industrial facilities have the staff or the opportunity to perform a detailed audit of their operations. The lack of knowledge of energy efficiency opportunities provides an important barrier...
Price, Lynn, Galitsky, Christina, Sinton, Jonathan, Worrell, Ernst, Graus, Wina
The Energy Foundation's China Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) has undertaken a major project investigating fiscal and tax policy options for stimulating energy efficiency and renewable energy...
Galitsky, Christina, Chang, Sheng-chieh, Worrell, Ernst, Masanet, Eric
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry consumes almost $1 billion in energy annually. Energy efficiency improvement is an important way to reduce these costs and to increase predictable earnings,...
California Industrial Energy Efficiency Potential (2005)
Coito, Fred, Worrell, Ernst, Price, Lynn, Masanet, Eric, Rafael Friedmann, Rufo, Mike
This paper presents an overview of the modeling approach and highlights key findings of a California industrial energy efficiency potential study. In addition to providing estimates of technical and...
Emerging Energy-Efficient Technologies for Industry (2005)
Worrell, Ernst, Martin, Nathan, Price, Lynn, Ruth, Michael, Elliot, Neal, Shipley, Anna, ...
U.S. industry consumes approximately 37 percent of the nation's energy to produce 24 percent of the nation's GDP. Increasingly, society is confronted with the challenge of moving toward a cleaner,...
Case Study of the California Cement Industry (2005)
Coito, Fred, Powell, Frank, Worrell, Ernst, Price, Lynn, Friedmann, Rafael
California is the largest cement producing state in the U.S., accounting for between 10 percent and 15 percent of U.S. cement production and cement industry employment. The cement industry in...
Energy Efficiency Improvement in the Petroleum Refining Industry (2005)
Worrell, Ernst, Galitsky, Christina
Information has proven to be an important barrier in industrial energy efficiency improvement. Voluntary government programs aim to assist industry to improve energy efficiency by supplying...
Energy efficiency improvement and cost saving opportunities for petroleum refineries (2005)
Worrell, Ernst, Galitsky, Christina
The petroleum refining industry in the United States is the largest in the world, providing inputs to virtually any economic sector, including the transport sector and the chemical industry. The...
Christina Galitsky, Sheng-chieh Chang, Ernst Worrell, Eric Masanet, Christina Galitsky, Sheng-chieh Chang, ...
This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government. While this document is believed to contain correct information, neither the United States Government nor...
Price, Lynn, Yun, Jiang, Worrell, Ernst, Wenwei, Du, Sinton, Jonathan E.
China faces a significant challenge in the years ahead to continue to provide essential materials and products for a rapidly-growing economy while addressing pressing environmental concerns. Energy...
Worrell, Ernst, Galitsky, Christina
The cost of energy as part of the total production costs in the cement industry is significant, warranting attention for energy efficiency to improve the bottom line. Historically, energy intensity...
Emerging energy-efficient technologies for industry (2004)
Worrell, Ernst, Martin, Nathan, Price, Lynn, Ruth, Michael, Elliott, Neal, Shipley, Anna, ...
U.S. industry consumes approximately 37 percent of the nation s energy to produce 24 percent of the nation s GDP. Increasingly, society is confronted with the challenge of moving toward a cleaner,...
Farahani, Sara, Worrell, Ernst, Bryntse, Göran
Black liquor gasification–combined cycle (BLGCC) is a new technology that has the potential to increase electricity production of a chemical pulping mill. Increased electricity generation in...
Energy Efficiency Programs and Policies in the Industrial Sector in Industrialized Countries (2004)
Christina Galitsky, Lynn Price, Ernst Worrell, Christina Galitsky, Lynn Price, Ernst Worrell, ...
This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government. While this document is believed to contain correct information, neither the United States Government nor...
Plant Managers, Ernst Worrell, Christina Galitsky, Ernst Worrell, Christina Galitsky, Ernst Worrell, ...
This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government. While this document is believed to contain correct information, neither the United States Government nor...
Galitsky, Christina, Martin, Nathan, Worrell, Ernst, Lehman, Bryan
Annually, breweries in the United States spend over $200 million on energy. Energy consumption is equal to 38 percent of the production costs of beer, making en ergy efficiency improvement an...
Characterizing emerging industrial technologies in energy models (2003)
Laitner, John A. (Skip), Worrell, Ernst, Galitsky, Christina, Hanson, Donald A.
Conservation supply curves are a common tool in economic analysis. As such, they provide an important opportunity to include a non-linear representation of technology and technological change in...
Galitsky, Christina, Worrell, Ernst, Ruth, Michael
Corn wet milling is the most energy intensive industry within the food and kindred products group (SIC 20), using 15 percent of the energy in the entire food industry. After corn, energy is the...
Price, Lynn, Murtishaw, Scott, Worrell, Ernst
Executive Summary: The California Climate Action Registry, which was initially established in 2000 and began operation in Fall 2002, is a voluntary registry for recording annual greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Voluntary agreements in the industrial sector in China (2003)
Price, Lynn, Worrell, Ernst, Sinton, Jonathan
China faces a significant challenge in the years ahead to continue to provide essential materials and products for a rapidly-growing economy while addressing pressing environmental concerns. China's...
Price, Lynn, Worrell, Ernst, Sinton, Jonathan, Yun, Jiang
This paper describes international experience with the use of Voluntary Agreements for increasing industrial sector energy-efficiency, drawing lessons learned regarding the essential elements of the...
Policy modeling for industrial energy use (2003)
Worrell, Ernst, Park, Hi-Chun, Lee, Sang-Gon, Jung, Yonghun, Kato, Hiroyuki, Ramesohl, Stephan, ...
The international workshop on Policy Modeling for Industrial Energy Use was jointly organized by EETA (Professional Network for Engineering Economic Technology Analysis) and INEDIS (International...
Energy efficiency improvement and cost saving opportunities for the vehicle assembly industry (2003)
Galitsky, Christina, Worrell, Ernst
The motor vehicle industry in the U.S. spends about $3.6 billion on energy annually. In this report, we focus on auto assembly plants. In the U.S., over 70 assembly plants currently produce 13...
Price, Lynn, Yun, Jiang, Worrell, Ernst, Wenwei, Du, Sinton, Jonathan E.
China faces a significant challenge in the years ahead to continue to provide essential materials and products for a rapidly-growing economy while addressing pressing environmental concerns. Energy...
We investigate and compare several generic depreciation methods to assess the effectiveness of possible policy measures with respect to the depreciation schedules for investments in combined heat and...
Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future (CEF) studied the role that efficient clean energy technologies can play in meeting the economic and environmental challenges for our future energy supply. The...
Laitner, John A., Ruth, Michael, Worrell, Ernst
We review the relationship between energy efficiency improvement measures and productivity in industry. We propose a method to include productivity benefits in the economic assessment of the...
Steam systems in industry: Energy use and energy efficiency improvement potentials (2001)
Einstein, Dan, Worrell, Ernst, Khrushch, Marta
Steam systems are a part of almost every major industrial process today. Thirty-seven percent of the fossil fuel burned in US industry is burned to produce steam. In this paper we will establish...
Scoping study on trends in the economic value of electricity reliability to the U.S. economy (2001)
Eto, Joseph, Koomey, Jonathan, Lehman, Bryan, Martin, Nathan, Mills, Evan, Webber, Carrie, ...
During the past three years, working with more than 150 organizations representing public and private stakeholders, EPRI has developed the Electricity Technology Roadmap. The Roadmap identifies...
Industrial energy efficiency policy in China (2001)
Price, Lynn, Worrell, Ernst, Sinton, Jonathan, Yun, Jiang
Chinese industrial sector energy-efficiency policy has gone through a number of distinct phases since the founding of the People s Republic in 1949. An initial period of energy supply growth in the...
Energy use and carbon dioxide emissions in the steel sector in key developing countries (2001)
Price, Lynn, Phylipsen, Dian, Worrell, Ernst
Iron and steel production consumes enormous quantities of energy, especially in developing countries where outdated, inefficient technologies are still used to produce iron and steel. Carbon dioxide...
Emerging energy-efficient technologies for industry (2001)
Worrell, Ernst, Martin, Nathan, Price, Lynn, Ruth, Michael, Elliott, Neal, Shipley, Anna, ...
Barriers and opportunities: A review of selected successful energy-efficiency programs (2001)
In industry, barriers may exist at various points in the decision making process, and in the implementation and management of measures to improve energy efficiency. Barriers may take many forms, and...
Opportunities to improve energy efficiency in the U.S. pulp and paper industry (2001)
Worrell, Ernst, Martin, Nathan, Anglani, Norma, Einstein, Dan, Khrushch, Marta, Price, Lynn
This paper analyzes the energy efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions reductions potential of the U.S. pulp and paper industry, one of the largest energy users in the U.S. manufacturing sector. We...
Jonathan G. Koomey, Ernst Worrell, Etan Gumerman, New Orleans La
constant dollars), grew by an average 3.4 percent per year. In that same period, the nation’s primary energy use grew 2.2 percent annually. In effect, the nation’s energy intensity — in other...
China's industrial sector in an international context (2000)
Price, Lynn, Worrell, Ernst, Martin, Nathan, Lehman, Bryan, Sinton, Jonathan
Energy use and energy intensity of the U.S. chemical industry (2000)
Worrell, Ernst, Phylipsen, Dian, Einstein, Dan, Martin, Nathan
The U.S. chemical industry is the largest in the world, and responsible for about 11 percent of the U.S. industrial production measured as value added. It consumes approximately 20 percent of total...
International industrial sector energy efficiency policies (2000)
Over 40 percent of the energy consumed globally is used in the industrial sector. In China, this sector consumes an even larger proportion, reaching nearly 70 percent in 1997. A variety of energy...
Price, Lynn, Worrell, Ernst, Khrushch, Marta
Disaggregation of sectoral energy use and greenhouse gas emissions trends reveals striking differences between sectors and regions of the world. Understanding key driving forces in the energy end-use...
New trends in industrial energy efficiency in the Mexico iron and steel industry (1999)
Ozawa, Leticia, Martin, Nathan, Worrell, Ernst, Price, Lynn, Sheinbaum, Claudia
Energy use in the Mexican industrial sector experienced important changes in the last decade related to changes in the Mexican economy. In previous studies, we have shown that a real change in...
Ernst Worrell, Nathan Martin, Lynn Price, Ernst Worrell, Nathan Martin, ...
under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.
Potentials and policy implications of energy and material efficiency improvement (1997)
Worrell, Ernst, Levine, Mark, Price, Lynn, Martin, Nathan, Van Den Broek, Richard, Block, Kornelis
There is a growing awareness of the serious problems associated with the provision of sufficient energy to meet human needs and to fuel economic growth world-wide. This has pointed to the need for...
Worrell, Ernst, Van Berkel, Rene, Fengqi, Zhou, Menke, Christoph, Schaeffer, Roberto, O. Williams, Robert
Energy intensity in the iron and steel industry: a comparison of physical and economic indicators
Worrell, Ernst, Price, Lynn, Martin, Nathan, Farla, Jacco, Schaeffer, Roberto
The cost effectiveness of CO2 emission reduction achieved by energy conservation
Blok, Kornelis, Worrell, Ernst, Cuelenaere, Rob, Turkenburg, Wim
Barriers exist for improvement of energy efficiency, of which the principal-agent problem is considered an important one. The principal-agent problem is a potential barrier for energy policies based...
CO2 Emission Trends in the Cement Industry: An International Comparison
cement industry, CO2 emissions, decomposition analysis, physical indicator,
Sectoral Trends and Driving Forces of Global Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Lynn Price, Laurie Michaelis, Ernst Worrell, Marta Khrushch
agriculture energy use, buildings energy use, carbon emissions, energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, industrial energy use, transport energy use,
Trend in efficiency and capacity of fossil power generation in the EU
The purpose of this study is to determine past and future energy efficiency of fossil power generation in EU-27. It is found that the average efficiency for gas-fired power generation increased...