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EASA Endorses NEMA Premium Efficiency Electric Motor Program
NEMA continues to earn praise and support for its innovative NEMA Premium?
Efficiency Electric Motor Program. The Electrical Apparatus Service Association
(EASA) is the latest to endorse the program, and two new manufacturer partners
? TECO ? Westinghouse and Baldor Electric ? have signed on.
"EASA agrees that an industry-wide definition of premium was needed, and
applauds NEMA's efforts in setting such a standard for electric motor users,"
says EASA president and CEO Linda Raynes.
Electric motors consume 10 to 25 times their purchase price in electricity each
year; even small increases in efficiency can add up to energy savings that go
directly to the bottom line. NEMA Premium? is a program whose label makes
it easy for purchasers to identify premium efficiency electric motors.
These motors ? operating at efficiency levels that are one to four percent
higher than the current energy efficient motors in the marketplace today ?
will save users money, optimize motor systems efficiency, improve reliability,
and reduce electrical consumption and the pollution caused by electrical power
generation.
The Department of Energy estimates that over the next decade, the program will
save 5,800 gigawatts of electricity and prevent the release of nearly 80 million
metric tons of carbon emissions ? the equivalent of keeping 16 million
cars off the road. NEMA Premium? electric motor manufacturer partners represent
about 80 percent of the U.S. electric motor manufacturing industry.
For more information, visit www.nema.ort/premiummotors
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