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1. Title Introduction to EPA’s ENERGY STAR Tools Katy Hatcher ENERGY STAR National Manager, Public Sector US EPA

2. What is ENERGY STAR for Buildings? • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency energy management program providing proven solutions to help public and private sector building owners and managers reduce their energy consumption.. • Provides proven solutions to help public and private sector building owners and managers reduce their energy consumption. • Works in markets with a focus on: • Public sector (government, K-12, higher ed) • Commercial property (offices, retail, hotels) • Healthcare • Small business and congregations

3. Also ENERGY STAR Albuquerque Indian Hospital Albuquerque, NM 500 Boylston St. Boston, MA Parkside Elementary School Buffalo, MN Blue Earth County Courthouse Mankato, MN LL&E Tower New Orleans, LA Westin San Francisco Airport Millbrae, CA

4. What is ENERGY STAR for Buildings? • Thousands of Partners operating more than 11 billion square feet of space (nearly 20% of space in the U.S.). • Over 70,000 buildings measure and track their energy performance, energy costs, and carbon emissions with ENERGY STAR.

5. What is ENERGY STAR for Buildings? • National and Local Recognition • ENERGY STAR Partner • Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR • ENERGY STAR Label • ENERGY STAR Leader • ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year

6. Why Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings? • The buildings in which we work, shop, play, and educate our children use $200 billion of electricity and natural gas each year. • Commercial buildings and industrial facilities generate nearly 50% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. • 30% of energy consumed in commercial buildings is used unnecessarily or inefficiently. • According to the U.S. Green Building Council, GHG emissions from commercial buildings are projected to grow faster than any other sector over the next 25 years – about 1.8 percent per year. • IMMEDIATE, LOW-COST emission reduction opportunities for cities – EXISTING city and private sector buildings.

7. Benefits of Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings - Financial • Leading companies realize that energy efficiency can have a high return-on-investment and is necessary in order to remain competitive. • Businesses and organizations that are leaders in energy efficiency use about 30 percent less energy than their competitors. • Financial benefits of energy efficiency include: • Buildings that have earned the ENERGY STAR save more than 50 cents per square foot than average buildings and more than $2 per square foot than inefficient buildings. • Commercial properties may increase net operating income and building asset value by 5 percent. • Corporate real estate owners can lower operating costs by $25,000 per year for every 50,000 square feet of typical office space. • Full-service hotels that improve energy efficiency by 10 percent see an increased average daily rate of $1.35. • By reducing energy costs by just 5 percent, for-profit hospitals can increase earnings by one penny per share.

8. What is ENERGY STAR for Buildings? • Free technical resources: • Tools to benchmark and track energy performance in buildings • Energy Management Guidelines • Assistance for architects on designing energy efficient buildings • Case studies and best practices from leaders • Calculators to track returns on energy efficiency investments • Training • Materials to communicate with citizens, employees, stakeholders, and the media about energy efficiency efforts.

9. The ENERGY STAR Approach ENERGY STAR Energy Management Guideliness: a commitment to continuous energy performance improvement.

10. ENERGY STAR Teaming Guide • “How-to” guide on building an energy management team • Teaming up to Save Energy Checklist • Organizing your energy team • Starting your energy program • Building capacity • Sustaining the team • Maintaining momentum

11. Is Your Building Performing Well? Is 80 kBtu/SF/YR high or low for a building? Energy Performance EPA Benchmarking Fuel Efficiency MPG Is 18 MPG high or low for an automobile?

12. Top performing buildings use 3 to 4 times less energy per ft2 than the worst performers. Newer buildings are equally representedacross all quartiles. Based on a sample of 4,000 buildings nationwide. 39% of buildings with a rating of 75 or better are less than 25 years old 42% of buildings with a rating between 25 and 74 are less than 25 years old 35% of buildings with a rating between 0 and 24 are less than 25 years old Number of Buildings 10 1 25 50 75 90 29.9 86.0 165.7 121.1 339.4 EPA Performance Rating & Energy Intensity (kBtu/ft2-year) Best Performers Worst Performers New Doesn’t Always Equal Efficient

13. Technology Doesn’t Guarantee High Performance 100% 75% 50% ENERGY STAR 1999 - 2001 ` 25% 61.4 kBtu/ft2/yr 0% CBECS VAV VSDs EMS Bottom 25% 226.3 kBtu/ft2/yr Economizer Energy Audit Motion Sensors Note: “CBECS” is the Energy Information Administration’s Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey, http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/contents.html

14. 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 EUI (energy use intensity) 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. • Free on-line live trainings offered monthly. • http://www.energystar.gov/benchmark • Louisville-Jefferson County Metro government currently initiating benchmarking of all city buildings with Portfolio Manager.

15. Tracking Campaigns: Master Accounts • Objective:Allows organizations to track progress of campaigns, for example: • MD can track buildings across agencies • Energy saving competitions among buildings and agencies • Process: • MD 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

16. Seattle BOMA Kilowatt Crackdown Promoting leadership in energy efficient building operations. • Participants will benchmark their buildings in Portfolio Manager by 1/25/2008 using 2007 utility data. • Winners receive cash prizes, and those qualifying for the ENERGY STAR label received free engineering certification. • Prizes include a private suite party at a Seattle Mariners game, tickets to the BOMA golf tournament, and a catered lunch for 12.

17. ENERGY STAR Contacts www.energystar.gov • Katy Hatcher ENERGY STAR National Manager, Public Sector Hatcher.Caterina@epa.gov • Leslie Cook The Cadmus Group, Inc. 703-247-6148, lcook@cadmusgroup.com