Nissan won three U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR awards this week, including the 2013 Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence Award.
The EPA hands out the 2013 Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence Award every year to organizations that are "dedicated to protecting the environment" according to a company press release.
"Since becoming an ENERGY STAR partner in 2006, we have saved more than 800 billion BTUs (British thermal units) of the energy used to assemble vehicles," said Bill Krueger , Nissan's senior vice president of manufacturing, purchasing, production engineering and supply chain management in a press release. "That's enough energy to power the all-electric Nissan LEAF for more than 750 million miles."
Nissan also won two other Energy Star awards for their powertrain and vehicle assembly plants.
Nissan's powertrain facility in Dechard, Tenn., achieved EPA's Energy Star Challenge for Industry recognition for "reducing the amount of energy" required to produce engines by approximately seven percent in only a year.
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The company invested a lot of money to compressed air leak reduction programs and to make more efficient equipment.
The company has also started a number of different energy-saving programs the last five years or so, like a program which identifies and repairs air leaks at their Nissan Canton Vehicle Assembly Plant according to the press release.
Krueger also discussed the debut of a new and "more efficient" paint facility in Smyrna, which reportedly brought the plant above the 75th percentile in energy performance according to Energy Star research.
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