Assessment of cost savings of DOE's return-on-investment program
- Resource Type
- Technical Report
- Authors
- Source
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Aug 1999
- Subject
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY POLLUTION ABATEMENT
LIFE-CYCLE COST
US DOE
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
INVESTMENT POLLUTION PREVENTION
POLLUTION PREVENTION
- Language
- English
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Pollution Prevention (EM-77) created is successful internally competed program to fund innovative projects based on projected returns. This is called the Return-on-Investment (ROI) program. EM-77 conducted a successful ROI pilot, developed and implemented sound management practices, and successfully transferred the program to several Operations Offices. Over the past 4 years sites have completed 262 ROI projects (costing $18.8 million) with claimed first-year savings of $88 million and claimed life cycle savings exceeding $300 million. EM-77 requested that Oak Ridge National Laboratory perform an independent evaluation of the site-led, DOE-HQ-funded pollution prevention (P2) ROI program to assist the Department in determining whether claimed savings are real.