EPA’s Energy Performance Rating System

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EPAs Energy Performance Rating System
May 13, 2008
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Be a Leader Change Our Environment for the
Better

• U.S. EPAs ENERGY STAR
• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  can help you with buildings and plants to
• Reduce energy waste
• Reduce GHG emissions
• Protect the environment

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Need for a Rating System for Buildings
Is 80 kBtu/SF/YR high or low for a building?
Statement of Energy Performance EPA Rating
Fuel Efficiency MPG
Is 60 MPG high or low for an automobile?
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Benchmarking The First Step to Energy Savings
in Buildings

• Benchmarking through ENERGY STAR allows you to
• Compare one building against a national sample of
  similar buildings
• Compare all of your buildings of a similar type
  to each other
• Set priorities for use of limited staff time
  and/or investment capital

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Portfolio Manager Helping You Track Your
Performance

• Free online tool where you can
• Benchmark the energy use of all of your buildings
  all will receive an energy use intensity (EUI)
  and some will receive ratings on a 1-100 scale
• Track changes in energy use over time in single
  buildings, groups of buildings, or entire
  portfolios
• Track cost savings and CO2 emissions
• Apply for ENERGY STAR recognition
• Track water usage
• http//www.energystar.gov/benchmark

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Ratable Space Types
Offices
K-12 Schools
Hotels
Supermarkets
Med. Office Bldgs.
Others include Warehouse, Residence Halls,
Courthouses, Financial Centers, Retail,
Wastewater Treatment Plants
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Energy Performance Gap
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Before You Start

• Collect Required Information
• Building Identifiers
• Name, street address, zip code for
  weather normalization
• Energy Use
• Bldg specific invoice information from
  all purchased energy
• At least 11 consecutive months for each
  source
• Space Type Data
• Square footage, hours of operation,
  number of students, of
• PCs,
• Must Meet Codes and have good IAQ
• ASHRAE 62, 90.1

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Find Portfolio Manager
1.

• Go to
• www.energystar.gov

2.
Click on Buildings and Plants
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Find Portfolio Manager
3.

• Click on
• Portfolio
• Manager

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Find Portfolio Manager
3.

• Click on
• Portfolio
• Manager

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Portfolio Manager

• Log-in Page
• My Portfolio Page Layout
• Portfolio Average Rating
• Portfolio Adjusted Percent Energy Reduction
• Views
• Add Facility
• Facility Summary Page
• Facility Performance
• Space Use
• Energy Meters
• Water Meters
• Energy Meters
• Add Meter Entries
• Start Date, End Date, kWh, Cost

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Use the Rating to

• Establish portfolio baseline, set goals, measure
  and track performance over time
• Verify gains from upgrade efforts
• Require specific rating gains from service
  providers in select building types such as office
  or warehouse

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Rating Interpretation
Once you have established an energy performance
baseline rating, you are ready to set improvement
goals and create an action plan. The guide below
can help you interpret the ratings and determine
appropriate next steps.
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Portfolio Manager Features

• Master account feature
• View (and Reporting) Options
• Statement of Energy Performance
• Percent energy reduction
• Water tracking
• Automated benchmarking
• Multi-Facility Meter Update

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Tracking Campaigns Master Accounts

• Objective Allows colleges and universities to
  track progress of campaigns, for example
• University systems can track individual campuses
• Energy saving competitions among residence halls
  or other buildings
• Process
• Institution creates a Master Account
• Master Account appears in a public registry
• Individual users can share facilities with Master
  Account
• Master Account holder can view progress for all
  facilities that have been shared

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View (and Reporting) Options

• The My Portfolio page uses views to display
  summarized data
• A view is a set of columns that display various
  data in a table
• Portfolio Manager provides the ability for a user
  to create their own view by selecting the columns
  (up to seven at a time) to display on the My
  Portfolio page
• It also enables the user to select the number of
  facilities that can display on the My Portfolio
  page (e.g., 25, 50).  There are over 30 different
  data columns that can be selected
• Any view can be set as the default view and these
  views can be downloaded into a Microsoft Excel
  spreadsheet for further analysis

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Statement of Energy Performance

• Objective The SEP can be generated for purposes
  other than applying for the ENERGY STAR Label
• LEED-EB certification process
• Real estate transactions
• Maintaining a Facility Summary Report
• Process
• User selects time period of performance
• Tool generates 1 page summary with energy use,
  cost, and emissions figures
• Summary also included as second page when full
  SEP is generated to apply for the ENERGY STAR

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Percent Energy Reduction

• Objective Provide a metric to show a percent
  change in energy use over time
• Creates tracking capability for all space types
• Process
• For non-ratable spaces the tool compares weather
  normalized source energy use between two periods
  and adjusts for any changes in square footage
• For ENERGY STAR ratable space types, the tool
  compares energy use between two periods adjusting
  for changes in weather and business activity

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Water Tracking

• Objective Allow users to track water use in
  Portfolio Manager
• Continued emphasis on tracking all utilities
• Lay groundwork for understanding the
  relationships between water and energy use
• Process
• User can select Add Water Meter for any
  facility
• User can identify water meters as indoor,
  outdoor, or wastewater
• Tool displays water use totals for any 12 month
  period
• User can compare two different periods and track
  over time
• Upcoming Enhancement percent change between two
  time periods will be displayed

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Multi-Facility Meter Update

• Objective Provide the ability to easily update
  meter data for a large number of facilities,
  greatly increasing the efficiency for meter
  updates
• Process
• Users select the facilities in their portfolio
  (maximum of 250 per download). A Microsoft Excel
  spreadsheet lists each facility and the specified
  number of meter data entries (billing cycles)
• Once meter data is entered and saved, the
  spreadsheet is uploaded. Users can review and
  edit the data before uploading it to Portfolio
  Manager
• This feature is used to update meter data it
  will not overwrite or replace meter data that
  already exists in Portfolio Manager

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Automated Benchmarking

• Allows utilities and energy info service
  providers to
• Securely exchange building and utility data with
  the EPA ENERGY STAR program
• Leverage the ENERGY STAR rating within their own
  systems
• Reduce the burden on energy end users of
  benchmarking their energy performance

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Recognition Opportunities for Eligible Spaces

• Estimate Energy Use at Design
• Target Finder
• Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR
• Verify energy use in operation
• Portfolio Manager
• ENERGY STAR for buildings
• ENERGY STAR Leaders for Portfolio-Wide
  Improvements of 10 percent, 20 percent, 30
  percent, or more

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Apply for the Label!
Buildings in the top 25 percent nationwide are
eligible to earn for the ENERGY STAR, provided
they meet or exceed industry standards for
comfort levels.
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Become a Partner!
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• Go to the Buildings Plants page
• Click on
• Partner Resources
• Look to left and
• Click on
• Businesses

2.
3.
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Become an ENERGY STAR Leader!

• ENERGY STAR Partner
• Benchmark all buildings
• Improve energy use by 10 percent, 20 percent, 30
  percent, or more

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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year

• ENERGY STAR Annual Awards Ceremony
• Organizations are recognized for outstanding
  performance in reducing energy consumption

2008 Partners of the Year Council Rock School
District, PA Gresham-Barlow School District, OR
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In Summary

• The Need for a Rating System
• Benefits of Using Portfolio Manager
• Finding Portfolio Manager Online
• Guided Tour Live, Online
• Review of Key Features
• ENERGY STAR Recognition
• Becoming an ENERGY STAR Partner

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Any Questions?
For more information about ENERGY STAR
www.energystar.gov buildings_at_energystar.gov U.S
. Environmental Protection Agency Katy
Hatcher Leslie Cook hatcher.caterina_at_epa.gov coo
k.leslie_at_epa.gov [phone] [phone]