HOUSTON ? Dow won an award from the Industrial Energy Technology Conference for its leadership in energy management, one of two companies to receive the award.
The award recognized Dow for its strong global focus on energy
efficiency and recent results, including:
Achieving aggressive EH&S 2005 goals related to energy efficiency –
reducing our energy intensity by 22% from 1994 ? 2005;
Maintaining strong corporate support and an energy efficiency
organization to drive results at the site and business levels;
Using proven Six Sigma methodology and industry best practices to
accelerate energy efficiency improvements;
Supporting external energy efficiency programs to help other energy
consumers save energy, such as the Alliance to Save Energy’s “Power is in Your Hands” residential energy efficiency campaign and the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Save Energy Now” industrial energy efficiency campaign.
From 1994 to 2005 Dow saved approximately $4 billion through energy
efficiency efforts, helping to mitigate the impact of rising energy costs, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. On May 3 Dow announced an aggressive corporate goal to further reduce its worldwide energy intensity by 25 percent from 2005 to 2015.
Dow is a diversified chemical company with annual sales of $46
billion and employs 42,000 people worldwide.
