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Eli Lilly & Company

Energy Savings Successes

Eli Lilly and Company affirms its commitment to energy efficiency in one of the ten elements of our environmental policy:

The company will encourage and promote waste minimization, the sustainable use of natural resources, recycling, energy efficiency, resource conservation, and resource recovery.

During 1997, we continued to identify opportunities for energy efficiency that would reduce the impact of our operations on the environment and generate significant reductions in our operating expenses.

Clinton Laboratories is Lilly's largest manufacturing plant and has the largest utility expenses of all our manufacturing sites. During 1997, engineering and operational improvements resulted in the reduction of energy consumption in the fermentation area of the facility. These reductions were accomplished through improvements in the cooling towers and modification to the operating parameters during transitional weather conditions. This effort has resulted in annual savings of approximately $300,000. The total annual electrical savings due to this project and other energy reduction projects at Clinton Laboratories over the past three years is approximately 55,000,000 kilowatt-hrs. These reduced energy requirements equate to a direct reduction in emissions of:

  • 33,000 tons of CO2

  • 473 tons of SO2

  • 132 tons of NOX .