Our Industrial Services team helps manufacturers adopt efficient technologies, productivity improvements, and best practices by integrating and customizing products and services. Our engineering team provides technical assistance, assessments, training, and project planning to clients in Washington, across the country, and around the world.
Our program managers provide national leadership by co-chairing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) State Energy Efficiency Action Network. We work closely with partners and stakeholders to deliver federal programs and establish long-term industrial energy efficiency programs that meet the needs of the Northwest Power Plan. We also partner with DOE, northwest industry associations, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA), and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to plan and deliver a regional industrial training strategy that promotes efficiency and corporate energy management.
Projects
Northwest Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnership
This four-state center, headquartered at the WSU Energy Program, provides no-cost technical assistance for industrial facilities considering onsite energy projects. The Northwest Onsite Energy TAP can advise on a wide array of onsite energy technologies, including but not limited to battery storage, solar photovoltaics, combined heat and power, and microgrids. Case studies, fact sheets, and other resources are available at the U.S. DOE’s Onsite Energy Program website.
Emerging Technologies
The WSU Energy Program assists BPA’s Emerging Technology – Bonneville Power Administration to assess innovative, energy-efficient technologies that could save electric energy but lack a foothold in the Northwest marketplace. As part of this program, we implemented a comprehensive process to identify, assess, peer review, and document the technologies’ technical and market potential.
Advanced Water Heating Initiative
WSU Energy Program and BPA Emerging Energy Efficiency Technologies are proud to support the Advanced Water Heating Initiative, a member-funded collaborative of building owners, utilities, federal agencies, state and local governments, manufacturers, engineers, installers, advocates, researchers, and building industry professionals from across the U.S. and aims to scale heat pump water heater (HPWH) installations by shaping policies, building demand, bringing products to market, and educating the supply chain.
CHP Technical Assistance Partnership – Northwest
This five-state center, headquartered at the WSU Energy Program, promotes combined heat and power (CHP), waste heat recovery, and other clean energy technologies and practices for industrial and commercial facilities. Case studies, fact sheets, and other resources are available at the CHP Technical Assistance Partnership – Northwest website.
January 1, 2024: The CHP Technical Assistance Partnership has ended. The U.S. Department of Energy has replaced this program with the Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnerships program, which continues to provide technical assistance for CHP projects, as well as other onsite technologies. For more information visit the U.S. DOE’s Onsite Energy Program website.
Industrial Trainings
Our industrial team coordinates custom training for plant operators and industrial equipment specialists. We also work with regional and national training providers to review curriculum and deliver world-class training to enhance energy and process efficiencies.
Our trainers include U.S. DOE Qualified Specialists with expertise in compressed air, fans, process heating, pumping, steam, and motor systems. We have led workshops on energy management of motor-driven systems throughout the U.S., Europe, South America, Guam, and the Caribbean. These workshops provide hands-on sessions using MotorMaster+ software.
We offer customized training with immediate on-site applications to support specific projects. Contact us to plan a training session or to be added to our training mailing list.
Industrial Engineering/Plant Assessments
Our engineering team delivers consultations, training, and in-plant services ranging from informal walk-throughs to in-depth plant assessments focused on one or more energy systems. Our team has performed energy assessments at scores of facilities, including military bases; industrial plants; and food processing, forest product, glass, and chemical manufacturing facilities.
We have in-depth experience with processing systems such as steam, motors, compressed air, process heating, fans, pumping and refrigeration, waste heat recovery, combined heat and power, corporate energy management, district energy, biofuels, materials handling, and lighting and building envelope efficiency.
We also conduct detailed reviews of energy optimization studies on some of the largest industrial plants in North America.