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Industrial Technologies Program

This program partners with U.S. industry to improve industrial energy efficiency and environmental performance. The program funds research and development carried out by national laboratories, universities, and private industrial firms. It also provides training, software tools, and facility energy audits.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program's assessment of its progress towards achieving its long-term performance goal has not been reviewed by an independent organization. There is some uncertainty in the program's assertion that it is on track for achieving a 20 percent decrease in energy intensity (energy used per unit of industrial output) by 2020 compared with 2002.
  • The program's historical measure of the number of technologies commercialized did not include an energy use component. The measure has been updated to provide a threshold (10 percent) for improved energy efficiency of products or processes developed and commercialized with program support.
  • This program and other applied research and development programs at the Department of Energy are working to improve their estimates of potential program benefits and use that information to guide budget decisions. The program has made significant progress, but estimates are not yet comparable between programs because of different modeling methods and assumptions.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Contracting with an independent organization to review the program's assessment of its contribution to the long-term goal of improving industrial energy efficiency.
  • Developing guidance that specifies a consistent framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of research and development investments, and using this information to guide budget decisions.

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