Managing the Energy Performance of Your Buildings

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Managing the Energy Performance of Your Buildings

• Timothy Burroughs
• Program Officer
• ICLEI USA

Cities for Climate Protection
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Training Agenda

• Overview of EPAs Performance Rating System and
  Portfolio Manager
• Local Government Perspective Utilizing Portfolio
  Manager
• Presentations by
• Ellen Katz, Fiscal Director, Dept. of Public
  Works, Cambridge, MA
• Stu Reeve, Energy Manager, Poudre School
  District, Fort Collins, CO.

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EPAs Portfolio Manager

• An online tool that measures the energy
  performance of your buildings relative to other
  buildings across the nation
• Assists with locating potential for energy
  improvement
• Assists with measuring improvement over time
• Use it to apply for the ENERGY STAR label
• Overlaps with ICLEIs Milestone Process

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Portfolio Manager An ENERGY STAR Tool

• ENERGY STAR is a voluntary partnership that
  offers
• Environmental leadership through superior energy
  performance
• Guidance, tools, and resources to help
  organizations achieve superior energy performance

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Variation in Energy Performance
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How do your buildings perform?

• Energy Performance Rating System developed by EPA
  to serve as a metric of whole-building
  performance.

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Energy Performance Rating
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Energy Performance Rating System

• Normalizes building energy consumption
• Weather, hours, occupant density, plug load
• Whole-building mpg rating
• Benchmarks for comparison
• To similar buildings in national stock
• Recognizes top performing buildings
• Top 25 qualify for an ENERGY STAR
• Recognizes portfolio improvement
• Baseline improvements of 10, 20, 30 points

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Features of Portfolio Manager

• Portfolio average scores
• Data sharing capabilities
• Preset or custom views
• Ability to group facilities in categories

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Information Required for Accurate Rating

• Address
• Zip Code for weather normalization
• Energy Consumption
• 12 consecutive months for each source
• Space Type Data
• Industry specific, for example
• Office space (square footage, PCs, hours of
  operation, occupants)

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Eligible Space Types

• K-12 Schools
• Hospitals
• Offices
• Courthouses
• Supermarkets

• Medical Offices
• Warehouses
• Hotels
• Residence Halls

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Lets Take Portfolio Manager for a Spin!
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www.energystar.gov/benchmark
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Portfolio Manager

• My Portfolio
• Provides summary information for all buildings.
• Allows user to customize views and sort by column
  headings.

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Portfolio Manager

• Facility Summary
• This view is the same for all space types.
• Includes building address, summary space use,
  summary energy use, and baseline/target usage.
• Click on Space Name to see space use details.

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Portfolio Manager

• Offices and Courthouses
• Data needed
• Floor area
• of PCs
• Occupancy
• Operating hours

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Use the Rating to
Prioritize portfolio-wide upgrades and
improvements

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Additional Links
Facility Summary view Additional links are
provided for options such as tracking upgrades,
sharing data with other users, applying for the
ENERGY STAR label, and creating a building
profile.
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Supporting Documents
The supporting documents below provide additional
information to help in rating your buildings and
applying for the ENERGY STAR. They can be found
by selecting the Support Documents link at
www.energystar.gov/benchmark.

• Professional Engineers Guide
• ENERGY STAR Label for Buildings Technical
  Description
• Weather Normalization Description
• Technical Description for the Offices, Banks,
  Financial Centers, and Courthouses

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• Timothy Burroughs
• Cities for Climate Protection
• timothy.burroughs_at_iclei.orghttp//www.iclei.org/c
  cp