FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS
Buildings/Processing
- Electrify your HVAC with heat pumps
- Electrify your processing and thermal energy with:
- Industrial heat pumps for low- and medium-temperature heat demand (up to 400o C)
- Electric-powered mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) equipment for evaporation (up to 400o C)
- Electric boilers (up to 350o C)
- Electric furnaces (up to 1,000o C)
- Maximize energy efficiency and heat recovery to lower your energy load
Transportation
- Electrify your sales fleet
- Electrify your trucking/distribution
- Business travel: Develop travel policies that encourage electrification such as renting electric vehicles (EVs), encouraging use of electric powered public transit and trains (Northeast corridor).
Suppliers and/or Copackers
- Encourage and/or incentivize suppliers & copackers to electrify
- Provide training on electrifying opportunities & federal tax incentives
NOTE: Be sure your electricity is clean- install solar, wind and storage or buy green power!
AWARENESS AND COMMUNICATIONS
- Marketing: Ditch the gas stoves for healthier electric induction in your food demos, advertising, social media, etc.
- Educate and engage your creatives with Rewiring America’s Electric Creatives (and Clean Creatives while you are at it!)
- Raffle an induction stove as a way to educate your stakeholders about electrifying
- Share on social media the ways your business is electrifying
ADVOCACY
- Make a commitment to engage in climate policy through the Climate Collaborative to learn about opportunities to support electrification and advocate for clean energy
- Get involved in electrification advocacy through additional groups such as Evergreen Action, ASBN, or Ceres
EMPLOYEES
- Provide benefits to help them electrify such as subsidies for heat pumps, electric vehicles, induction stoves
- Replace gas or electric stoves with induction stoves in breakrooms
- Hold “lunch and learns” for employees such as Rewiring America’s “Why Electrify” or on subsidies they may be eligible for through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
- Have your CEO join Rewiring America’s “CEOs for Electrification”
- Hold an employee raffle or an award with the prize being an induction stove or heat pump