The Best Practices Motor Challenge Program

Best Practices, a program of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT), works with industry to identify plant-wide opportunities for energy savings and process efficiency. Through the implementation of new technologies and systems improvements, companies across the United States are achieving immediate savings results.

Motor-driven equipment accounts for 64% of the electricity consumed in the U.S. industrial sector. The motor systems of the Industries of the Future—some of the most energy intensive industries—consume approximately 290 billion kWh per year. That represents dramatic potential for both energy and cost savings with the implementation of more energy-efficient equipment or procedures.

The Best Practices Motor Challenge Program is an industry/government partnership designed to help industry capture 25 billion kWh per year of electricity savings by the year 2000.  The program was Initiated in 1993 as part of DOE's renewed effort to promote voluntary industry/government partnerships to improve energy efficiency, economic competitiveness, and the environment.

The program's official mission carried out through its Allied Partners, such as SM Service & Technology, is to deliver the products and services that assist customers in gaining a competitive advantage in managing their electric motor systems while saving energy and enhancing environmental quality.

The primary goal of the program is to increase the market penetration of Energy-Efficient industrial electric motor-driven systems.

As an Allied Partner, SM Service & Technology can provide energy solutions that will create an instant and continuous return on investment. Results of many energy reduction projects can be reviewed at the OIT Best Practices Case Studies page.

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