Energy Conservation for a Competitive Advantage

Raytheon’s enterprise-wide Energy Conservation for a Competitive Advantage program achieved higher levels of participation and exceeded all goals established in 2007. We curbed electricity consumption by approximately 10 percent adjusted for business growth, enough to power some 10,000 homes for a year. Since 2002, Raytheon has reduced energy consumption 11.7 percent while revenues have risen 45 percent.

2007 Highlights

  • Developed a new Energy Citizen program and qualifed 1,400 people
  • Increased our Energy Champion network to 1,500 members
  • Applyed Six Sigma focus to energy challenges through our Enterprise Energy Team
  • Engaged 300 of our largest suppliers and vendors in energy conservation programs
  • Encouraged suppliers to become ENERGY STAR and Climate Leaders partners
  • Worked with internal organizations to design, develop and manufacture more energy-efficient processes and products
  • Won an Energy Efficiency Award in California’s fifth annual Flex Your Power Awards and a U.S. EPA New England Environmental Merit Award
  • Awarded 2007 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year and selected for 2008 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award
  • As a pledge driver for the ENERGY STAR "Change A Light, Change The World" campaign, obtained more than 11,000 employee pledges accounting for nearly 1% of the total U.S. pledges in 2007

Through our Energy Champion training, we encourage employees to embrace an energy conservation culture and become change agents both at work and at home. Energy Champions continually seek out energy reduction opportunities, implement concepts that work, share their enthusiasm and challenge others to be equally proactive.

Energy Conservation Summit 2007

Raytheon Chairman and CEO William H. Swanson gave the opening remarks at the company’s Energy Conservation Summit 2007. The summit profiled each business’s programs and progress in energy management and highlighted additional opportunities in the areas of supplier engagement, energy procurement, green buildings and facility upgrades, renewable energy applications and employee engagement.