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2 Program-Level Evaluations
Pages 17-25

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From page 17...
... · Corporate strategy or management plan: Is there a good plan in place to carry out the program? This chapter contains the committee's assessment of the ITP Strategic Plan, the ITP program plan as contained in the MYPP, the ITP corporate strategy or management plan, and the appropriateness of all of these activities with respect to the strategic plans of the ITP, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
From page 18...
... A general goal of the DOE is to improve energy security by developing technologies that foster a diverse supply of reliable, affordable, and environmentally sound energy by providing for the reliable delivery of energy, guarding against energy emergencies, exploring advanced technologies that make a fundamental improvement in the mix of energy options, and improving energy efficiency. One strategy for achieving this goal is to partner with the private sector, states and communities, national laboratories, colleges and universities, nongovernmental organizations, foreign allies, the U.S.
From page 19...
... Quantitative goals have been set: a 25 percent decrease in energy intensity1 by the energy-intensive Industries of the Future (IOFs) between 2002 and 2020 and the commercialization of more than 10 industrial energy efficiency technologies between 2003 and 2010.2 The six key ITP strategies for achieving these goals are: · To focus on energy-intensive industries, · To use public-private partnerships to plan and implement the program, · To identify grand challenges that would dramatically improve industrial energy efficiency, · To implement a technology portfolio that is balanced in terms of near-, mid-, and far-term research, · To perform process-specific and crosscutting research and development (R&D)
From page 20...
... A 25 percent decrease in energy intensity would appear to be an aggressive goal. On the other hand, the achievement of commercializing more than 10 industrial energy efficiency technologies would appear to be quite low considering the 160 such technologies commercialized by the program between 1980 and the present (DOE, 2003c, p.
From page 21...
... . The overall approach is to align the ITP strategic goal of a 25 percent decrease in energy intensity by the IOFs with corporate goals related to increasing productivity, energy efficiency, resource conservation, environmental stewardship, and economic growth.
From page 22...
... A better approach might be to hand off this aspect of its efforts to the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, or the National Science Foundation, all of which have major educational missions. With respect to alternative government interventions to assist industry in improving energy efficiency, the ITP participates on the industrial Energy Savers Web site and has been involved with state showcases of industrial energy efficiency technologies, the Climate VISION (Voluntary Innovative Sector Initiatives: Opportunities Now)
From page 23...
... Several hundred individual projects are underway, related to specific energyintensive sectors, to crosscutting technologies, to grand challenges, to the development of tools and training, to energy assessments, and to demonstrations. Barriers to long-term public-private partnerships include the difficulty in changing industry performance without adequate resources, insufficient leveraging of partnerships, the lack of understanding and awareness of how energy efficiency can improve profitability and societal benefit, concerns about partnering with government, and the lack of unified objectives and priority setting within the government.
From page 24...
... The current manufacturing situation was described by the ITP program managers in their presentations to the committee as being characterized by high foreign competition, high capital equipment costs, low access to cash, high technology risk, low stock turnover, low R&D investment, environmental externalities with an uncertain future, high natural gas prices, climate change, antiglobalization, inflation, substitute materials, and war. Barriers to achieving positive impact manufacturing were taken from previously identified barriers in other parts of the ITP management plan -- the barriers include environmental regulations, technical and investment risk inhibiting the deployment of energy-efficient industrial technology, and a scarcity of technically skilled production workers -- as were previously identified pathways to address these barriers.
From page 25...
... ITP objectives include the development and promotion of energy technologies and practices that also promote resource conservation, minimize environmental impact, and promote energy and environmental sustainability, and many environmental drivers are incorporated into ITP planning. Many technologies under development within the ITP simultaneously decrease both energy intensity and environmental impact.


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