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Title

  • Main Title Emerging energy-efficient industrial technologies

Creator

  • Author: Martin, N.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Worrell, E.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Ruth, M.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Price, L.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Elliott, R. N.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Shipley, A. M.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Thorne, J.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: USDOE Director. Office of Science
    Contributor Type: Organization
  • Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency. Climate Protection Division. Office of Air and Radiation (United States)
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: Berkeley, California
    Additional Info: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 2000-10-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: U.S. industry consumes approximately 37 percent of the nation's energy to produce 24 percent of the nation's GDP. Increasingly, industry is confronted with the challenge of moving toward a cleaner, more sustainable path of production and consumption, while increasing global competitiveness. Technology will be essential for meeting these challenges. At some point, businesses are faced with investment in new capital stock. At this decision point, new and emerging technologies compete for capital investment alongside more established or mature technologies. Understanding the dynamics of the decision-making process is important to perceive what drives technology change and the overall effect on industrial energy use. The assessment of emerging energy-efficient industrial technologies can be useful for: (1) identifying R&D projects; (2) identifying potential technologies for market transformation activities; (3) providing common information on technologies to a broad audience of policy-makers; and (4) offering new insights into technology development and energy efficiency potentials. With the support of PG&E Co., NYSERDA, DOE, EPA, NEEA, and the Iowa Energy Center, staff from LBNL and ACEEE produced this assessment of emerging energy-efficient industrial technologies. The goal was to collect information on a broad array of potentially significant emerging energy-efficient industrial technologies and carefully characterize a sub-group of approximately 50 key technologies. Our use of the term ''emerging'' denotes technologies that are both pre-commercial but near commercialization, and technologies that have already entered the market but have less than 5 percent of current market share. We also have chosen technologies that are energy-efficient (i.e., use less energy than existing technologies and practices to produce the same product), and may have additional ''non-energy benefits.'' These benefits are as important (if not more important in many cases) in influencing the decision on whether to adopt an emerging technology. The technologies were characterized with respect to energy efficiency, economics, and environmental performance. The results demonstrate that the United States is not running out of technologies to improve energy efficiency and economic and environmental performance, and will not run out in the future. We show that many of the technologies have important non-energy benefits, ranging from reduced environmental impact to improved productivity and worker safety, and reduced capital costs.
  • Physical Description: 201 pages

Subject

  • Keyword: Decision Making
  • Keyword: Productivity
  • Keyword: Us Epa
  • Keyword: Economics
  • Keyword: Capitalized Cost
  • Keyword: Environmental Impacts
  • Keyword: Commercialization
  • STI Subject Categories: 32 Energy Conservation, Consumption, And Utilization
  • Keyword: Production
  • Keyword: Energy Efficiency
  • Keyword: Competition
  • Keyword: Capital
  • Keyword: Transformations
  • Keyword: Safety
  • Keyword: Performance
  • Keyword: Market

Source

  • Other Information: PBD: 1 Oct 2000

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: LBNL--46990
  • Grant Number: AC03-76SF00098
  • DOI: 10.2172/840231
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 840231
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc779498

Note

  • Display Note: OSTI as DE00840231
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