Exercise 5. Complete the text with active vocabulary

A) more energy efficient

B) facilities

C) Energy efficiency

D) generated by a nearby landfill

E) reduction

F) the cost of the improvements

G) reduce energy use

H) Conservation and energy efficiency

I) energy and cost savings

J) a joint venture

K) global operations

L) cogeneration facility

M) the amount of energy

N) power plants

O) county taxpayers

P) cogeneration units

Q) utility company

R) electric power

S) electrical generating capacity

T) generate electricity

1. ________________ is one of the most economical sources of new energy. Imagine this: A 2.

_______________ of just 5 percent in global energy use would save the equivalent of more than 10 million

barrels of oil per day—enough energy to power Australia, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

Using energy more efficiently makes sense for many reasons, including:

It reduces carbon emissions.

It lowers costs.

It conserves the supplies we have.

We're an energy company with a business unit dedicated to helping others become 3._______________.

Since 2000, Chevron Energy Solutions (CES) has helped clients 4. _____________ at their 5.

___________ by nearly 30 percent on average. CES customers are schools, colleges, government agencies

and businesses, including some of our own business units. We work with our customers to improve energy

efficiency and find ways to use renewable power to provide significant 6. _________________ each year.

The money saved generally covers 7. ________________ within a relatively short time, thereby providing

ongoing financial benefits for the customer and improved health for the environment.

In 2010, CES announced three important projects. The City of Brea Energy Efficiency and Solar project in

California is expected to bring the city more than $13 million in net energy savings over the life of the project.

The Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany Landfill Gas project in Georgia will produce 1.9 megawatts of

renewable electric power and steam by burning gas 8.________________. CES also built a 6,800-ton chilled

water plant as part of the University of Utah Thermal Storage and Central Plant project.

At Chevron, we're practicing energy efficiency. To help measure our progress, we established the Chevron

Energy Index in 1992. Since then, we have increased the energy efficiency of our 9. ______________ by 33

percent.

We've achieved these savings in big and small ways. We created the position of Corporate Energy

Coordinator to lead the company's energy efficiency efforts. The coordinator develops and improves best

practices that can be shared among business units and conducts energy reviews to assist in prioritizing

conservation opportunities across the company.

We've also invested in projects to reduce 10. _________________ we use in our operations.

The people of Chevron make energy efficiency a constant priority. We do it with simple, everyday acts, such

as constantly maintaining our equipment so that it runs smoothly, and with complex projects, such as

building high-efficiency 11._________________.

Worldwide, Chevron operates 12. ________________ at refineries, production facilities and other sites, with

a combined 13. _______________ of about 3,500 megawatts. Cogeneration is a fuel-efficient and

environmentally friendly process to produce steam and 14. _____________ simultaneously. These units,

also referred to as combined heat and power units, 15. _______________ about twice as efficiently as the

average power supplied by a local 16._________________.

Our Kern River Cogeneration Co. facility in California, 17. _______________ with Edison Mission Energy,

was California's first large 18.________________, with a generating capacity of 300 megawatts.

We built an $80 million cogeneration facility in El Segundo, Calif., to provide electrical and steam power for

our refinery there. We're using cogeneration to produce additional electricity from energy that would

otherwise go unused at several of our refineries.

We also developed and installed California's first megawatt-class hydrogen fuel cell cogeneration plant at

Alameda County's Santa Rita Jail. The 1 megawatt project provides half of the facility's annual power needs

and is saving 19. ________________ more than $260,000 a year. By reducing the facility's demand for

utility-provided power, the fuel cell plant offsets more than 3,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions each

year.

20. ___________________ are powerful tools for running our business—and for helping others run theirs.