A 2012 Executive Order tasked the Depts. of Energy, Commerce, Agriculture, and the EPA, in coordination with other agencies, with developing policies to encourage investment in industrial efficiency. This goal included the expansion of industrial CHP technologies at food processing, pulp and paper, chemicals, metals, and oil refining operations, creating a national target of 40 GW of industrial CHP by 2020 (an increase of 50 percent over 2012 usage). Biofuels Digest has written a response on the Order’s impacts on biorefineries specifically.