# Volvo’s Energy Efficiency Journey: Moving Towards a 25% Goal

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2014/08/volvos-energy-efficiency-journey-moving-towards-a-25-goal/
- Published: 2014-08-28T15:11:18-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

Last talk energy at manufacturing plants and the need for efficiency for Volvo. 
One Better Buildings, Better Plants partner, Volvo Group North America, has achieved
16% savings across all of its U.S. plants. Now that’s moving rapidly toward its 
longer-term goal of 25% improved energy efficiency within ten years. Volvo [Group](https://greenlivingguy.com/2018/05/volvo-trucks-will-start-selling-electric-trucks-2019/)
has improved the energy intensity (e.g., energy required per truck) at one plant.
That’s also the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia. Now we are talking to
26% over a three year period.

### Better Buildings Energy Efficiency

DUBLIN, Va. – Building on President Obama’s Better Buildings Initiative and the 
Administration’s broader efforts to double energy productivity by 2030, the Department
of Energy today recognized Volvo Group North America for its leadership in energy
efficiency at the New River Valley assembly plant near Roanoke, Va. As a Better 
Buildings, Better Plants partner, the Volvo Group has already achieved 16 percent
savings. That’s across its U.S. plants. Plus it continues working toward its goal.
The goal is becoming 25 percent more energy efficient within ten years.

### Energy Plant Efficiency Volvo 

“Partners in the Better Buildings, Better Plants program, such as Volvo, are committing
to real change – breaking through barriers to achieve greater energy efficiency 
and improving their bottom lines,” said Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Energy Efficiency. “The investments made by partners through the Better Plants
program are helping to [cut energy waste](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/02/easy-steps-to-cut-energy-waste-and-save-money-no-matter-how-cold-it-gets/),
to increase the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers and protect the environment.”

The 1.6-million-square-foot New River plant, which is Volvo Group’s largest truck
manufacturing plant in the world and produces Class 8 trucks weighing more than 
33,000 pounds. Some of their energy efficiency projects include improving the ventilation
systems in their spray booths, adding more daylighting, moving to high efficiency
fans and LED lighting in the assembly area, and installing a passive solar wall 
to supplement heating.

**Volvo Group demonstrates leadership in energy efficiency using strategies such
as:**

Setting savings goals and measuring progress;
Requiring energy team members to review
and approve purchases made by the plant;Empowering employees to use their front-
line knowledge to suggest energy efficiency projects;Reinvesting savings from energy
efficiency projects – about $1.2 million to date – into future efficiency efforts,
in turn generating more savings.

**Source: US Department of Energy**
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