Estimating Energy Efficiency Impacts Using Climate Wise "Wise Rules"

Abstract

Climate Wise is an industrial energy efficiency program sponsored by the U.S. EPA, and supported by the U.S. DOE, working in partnership with more than 400 industrial companies, representing approximately than 11 percent of U.S. industrial energy use. Climate Wise provides technical assistance in the form of efficiency check-lists, handbooks, and one-on-one support through a toll-free Wise Line to help partners identify efficiency measures and quantify project impacts. Climate Wise has developed the Wise Rules for Industrial Efficiency (Wise Rules Tool Kit) to provide partners with ''Wise Rules" for estimating potential energy, cost, and greenhouse gas emissions savings from key industrial energy efficiency measures. The Tool Kit includes information on the following end-uses: boilers, steam systems, furnaces, process heating, waste heat recovery, cogeneration, compressed air systems, and process cooling. This paper provides an overview of the Wise Rules Tool Kit and presents excerpts from the document and sample Wise Rules.