COMBINED HEAT AND POWER

Imagine you owned a business where half of your employees’ time was wasted or a restaurant where half of the food went unused. As illogical as it seems, this type of waste is commonplace when it comes to industrial “use” of energy. On average, 49%

ENERGY FROM WASTE

Between left over lunches, trimming the bushes, or unboxing that new gadget, Americans generate approximately 7 pounds of waste every day.1 While we’ve more than tripled our recycling and composting rates over the last 30 years, nearly five pounds of that waste still ends up discarded

INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY

U.S. manufacturing accounted for 11% of GDP in 2011,1 employing close to 12 million workers.2 Companies in the industrial sector spend $94 billion annually3 and consume 5.5 million GWh energy,4 which is 31% of total U.S. power usage.5 While domestic manufacturing is less energy-intensive than that of many other developed