TVA EnergyRight

Your Partner for Energy Efficiency Improvements 

Date: Wednesday, July12, 2023

Time: 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time

Speakers:   

• Alene Walkington – Program Manager, TVA EnergyRight for Business and Industry

TVA EnergyRight for Business and Industry partners with local power companies across TVA's seven-state region to bring energy efficiency, demand response, efficient electrification and renewable energy programs to approximately 10 million people and 800,000 businesses. During the webinar, TVA EnergyRight staff will provide an overview of their programs and speak about incentive offerings with industrial examples. The presentation will cover the Strategic Energy Management Program (Save It Forward), the Federal Energy Services Program (FESP), and different compressed air trainings that are offered.

In order to help our office promote, recognize, and share your organization's successes, we ask that you fill out and submit your Annual Report. We’ve recently updated the Tennessee Green Star Partners reporting process to reduce the frequency of requests (from five a year to two); shift the annual reporting data cycle to cover the previous calendar year; clarify reporting requests; and streamline the reporting forms. Please find an overview of the new process below and tutorial video walking through the TGSP reporting process:

TDEC will only be requesting two reports each year.

Annual Report - Due July 15:

• We ask that participating facilities report information to us by no later than July 15th for the previous calendar year data range of January 31st - December 31st.

Note: Please provide items that you have been working on at your facility as well as anything that you would like for use to highlight in various media outlets.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $80 Million To Strengthen American Manufacturing

Funding from the President’s Investing in America Agenda Will Help Small- and Medium-Sized Manufacturers Improve Energy Efficiency, Cut Costs, Increase Productivity, and Reduce Industrial Emissions

As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $80 million in grant funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for small- and medium-sized manufacturing firms (SMMs) to accelerate the adoption of recommendations made by DOE to improve energy efficiency to lower costs and reduce industrial emissions. The grants reinforce the President's Investing in America agenda and support the Administration’s efforts to build a clean energy economy, revitalize American manufacturing, and create good-paying jobs in the United States.

“Small- and medium-sized manufacturers will play a major role in increasing domestic production of technologies and materials that will position the U.S. to lead the global clean energy transition,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is enabling facilities across the country to increase energy efficiency, cut costs, and contribute to a clean energy economy that works for all.”

DOE’s Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) and Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnerships (CHP TAPs) programs are deeply community-centered, leveraging the expertise of and providing training to community colleges, trade schools, and union training programs across the country. These centers provide in-depth assessments at small- and medium sized manufacturers (SMMs), which comprise more than 90% of the nation's manufacturing base, to identify cost-effective opportunities to improve manufacturers’ energy efficiency, increase competitiveness, and reduce emissions. Today’s announcement will bolster the U.S. manufacturing base by making grants available to support projects that modernize SMMs’ facilities with improved energy and material efficiency, enhanced cybersecurity, and increased use of smart and advanced manufacturing technologies to reduce waste and pollution, while increasing productivity.