Master Plan For Improving Energy Efficiency

Abstract

Presidential Executive Order 12003, dated July 1977, directed all government owned or leased facilities to develop and execute a 10-year Energy Conservation Plan. With facilities in seven states totaling 15 million square feet, the Albuquerque Operations Office of the Department of Energy (DOE) suddenly was facing a challenge. A Master Energy Management Plan was developed. With the 10-year period now nearly over, the effectiveness of the Master Plan can be examined. One DOE facility, the Kansas City plant which is operated by the Bendix Corporation for the DOE, has accomplished a 52 percent reduction so far, exceeding the goals by more than double the projected reduction. This paper will provide a detailed description of the integrated approach taken in making this plant the DOE's "Best Energy Managed Production Plant in 1982" and recipient of "Power Magazine's 1983 Industrial Energy Award."