Overview
Increasing the competitiveness and resilience of the United States’ industrial sector requires a reliable, secure, and affordable energy supply. Understanding the potential for generating, storing, and dispatching energy at industrial facilities is critical to meeting these goals. Onsite energy adds generation capacity to support the grid, enables better grid management through load flexibility, shifts power supply reliance to local rather than distant infrastructure, and reduces industrial facility utility bill costs.
Quantifying the potential for onsite energy to serve U.S. industrial facilities helps define beneficial opportunities for end users, utility providers, regulators, and other stakeholders. It also supports the objective of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Onsite Energy Program, which provides regionally tailored technical assistance support for industrial sites and other large energy users installing energy generation and storage technologies at their facilities.
The following report chapters show the manufacturing sector footprint, existing installations, and technical potential results for onsite electric generation technologies. Each technology chapter features technology overviews and characterizations, analysis methods, and technical potential results. All chapters will be published in a report once completed.
This project is a multilab analysis being conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Laboratory of the Rockies, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. For questions please contact Kalie Miera ([email protected]), Matt Leach ([email protected]), or Amy Solana ([email protected]).