Can manufacturing or industrial plants earn ENERGY STAR certification?

The following 12 industrial plant types are eligible for ENERGY STAR certification. To view the eligibility requirements, go to: www.energystar.gov/plants.

• • Auto Assembly
  • Cement
  • Commercial Bread & Roll 
  • Container Glass
  • Cookie & Cracker
  • Flat Glass
  • Frozen Fried Potato Processing
  • Integrated Paper Mill
  • Juice Processing
  • Petroleum Refining (private system)
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Pulp Mill
  • Wet Corn Milling
  
  EPA is working with additional sectors on plant certification, which requires the publication of a plant Energy Performance Indicator (EPI). The following "industries in focus" are working with EPA to improve energy efficiency or develop EPIs:
  
  
  • Aluminum Casting
  • Cement manufacturing
  • Corn refining
  • Dairy processing
  • Food processing (Multiple sub-sectors)
  • Fertilizer production (new)
  • Glass manufacturing
  • Iron and steel manufacturing
  • Metalcasting
  • Motor vehicle manufacturing
  • Petrochemical manufacturing
  • Petroleum refining
  • Pharmaceutical manufacturing
  • Printing
  • Pulp and paper manufacturing
  • Ready mix concrete manufacturing

  Plants that cannot earn Certification are encourage to the take the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry.

  • If you're not sure which tool to use to track energy in your industrial plant, read this FAQ.