Superior Energy Performancecm : A Roadmap for Continual Improvement in Energy Efficiency

Authors

  • Paul E. Scheihing U.S. Department of Energy
  • Joe A. Almaguer Dow Chemical Company

Abstract

Superior Energy Performancecm (SEP) is a forthcoming voluntary
certification program that will move industrial and commercial facilities
onto a path of continual energy performance improvement while main-
taining competitiveness. This article describes the certification program
for U.S. industry; pilot testing and results to-date; and benefits to col-
laboration partners that deliver the program, such as state programs,
utilities, and supply chain partners. SEP certification requires facilities
to conform to all requirements of ISO 50001, the first global energy man-
agement system standard, and to demonstrate energy performance im-
provement as specified in MSE 50021, a forthcoming standard. Facilities
must demonstrate improved energy performance using the program’s
transparent, globally accepted, verification system. SEP is envisioned to
foster market demand for verified, sustained improvements in energy
performance and to increase adoption of the ISO 50001 standard. The
standard, developed with input from representatives from more than
50 countries, is broadly applicable to various sectors of national econo-
mies and could influence as much as 60% of the world’s energy demand
[1]. At the international level, the Global Superior Energy Performance
partnership is working to harmonize a range of nationally accredited
energy performance certification programs that reward strategic energy
management and third-party-verified energy reductions.

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Author Biographies

Paul E. Scheihing, U.S. Department of Energy

Paul Scheihing is the team leader of the Technology Deployment team within the Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). He is the DOE lead working on the development of the Superior Energy Performance certification program in partnership with US industry and is also a member of the US Technical Advisory Group developing the ISO 50001 energy management standard.

Paul has worked for DOE since 1988, having developed with U.S. industry a variety of research, development, and technology deployment partnerships and initiatives that all aim to encourage the more rapid adoption of energy efficient industrial technologies. In the 1990s, he managed DOE’s voluntary industry partnerships such as Motor Challenge, Steam Challenge, and Compressed Air Challenge, which were then integrated within ITP’s current BestPractices initiative.

Previous to DOE, he worked for five years at the Garrett Turbine Engine Company in Phoenix, Arizona, and five years with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Concordville, Pennsylvania. Both jobs were as a gas turbine development engineer with a specialty of gas turbine combustor design, test, and development.

He has a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut and an MS in mechanical engineering from Drexel University. paul.scheihing@ee.doe.gov

Joe A. Almaguer, Dow Chemical Company

Joe Almaguer is the Global Energy Efficiency and Conservation Leader for Dow Chemical Co. In this role, Joe is responsible for leading Dow’s energy efficiency and conservation efforts globally through an established network of focal points.

Joe holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Houston. He has 33 years of experience in the petrochemical industry, with a significant portion in the management of energy systems operations, projects implementation, and energy conservation. He is a recent past chairman of the Texas Industries of the Future Industrial Energy Efficiency Program Advisory Board, a founding and executive committee member of the US Council for Energy Efficient Manufacturing, a member of the US TAG, and a delegate to PCP 242 Energy Management System for development of ISO 50001, and is now an expert on TC 242. In his career with Dow, Joe has also worked and lived in the Middle East and Asia and has extensive experience in facilities operation in those economies.
Telephone 409-948-5422
Fax: 409-948-5339
email: jalmaguer@dow.com

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Published

2023-07-11

How to Cite

Scheihing, P. E. ., & Almaguer, J. A. . (2023). Superior Energy Performancecm : A Roadmap for Continual Improvement in Energy Efficiency . Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment, 32(3), 39–55. Retrieved from https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/SPEE/article/view/19777

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2013: Vol 32 Iss 3 2012-2013

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