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Explore Better Plants offerings in greater detail by viewing program reports and fact sheets.

For a brief overview of the program, read:

The program's progress updates summarize collective accomplishments to date:

Explore new program initiatives to reduce water use and energy intensity in manufacturing supply chains:

Better Plants Challenge Partners are implementing innovative, replicable energy solutions:

  • Implementation Models - successful approaches to overcoming barriers to energy efficiency within organizations
  • Showcase Projects - near-term demonstrations of significant energy savings at an individual facility

Organizations can join Better Plants by having a CEO or senior executive sign the partnership agreement form:

Learn about the steps necessary to develop an energy consumption and energy intensity baseline and calculate changes over time:

View recordings and transcripts of Pre-In-Plant Training webinars on a variety of topics.
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The Better Plants Program hosted a webinar on January 22, 2015 to review accomplishments to date and detail new initiatives to save partners energy and water. Question and answer session is included. Download the presentation slides. Read the text version.

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Legrand's CEO John Selldorff discusses the importance of focusing on energy efficiency and remaining competitive while being a part of the Better Buildings Challenge.

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Watch how Alcoa and ArcelorMittal have joined the Better Building, Better Plants Challenge to manage and save energy.