The ENERGY STAR Challenge

Help to Build a Better World –

10% at A Time

Why is Energy Efficiency in Buildings Important?

• The buildings in which we work, shop, and learn use electricity and natural gas costing about $80 billion annually, and constituting about 20% of national emissions of greenhouse gases.

• Buildings owners may realize significant cost savings while helping to protect the environment.

Superior Management =Superior Energy Performance

Analysis of 4,000 buildings in terms of energy use:• Top performing buildings use 3 to 4 times

less energy per square foot than the worst performers.

• Energy performance varies greatly across similar building space types, but neither age of facility nor technologies installed are deciding factors in performance

What is the ENERGY STAR Challenge?

• A call to action issued by EPA in March 2005 to building owners and managers to improve energy efficiency by 10% or more across their entire portfolio of buildings.

• To achieve these improvements EPA encourages building owners and operators to make financially-attractive energy efficiency improvements through proven methods such as low-cost building tune-ups, lighting upgrades, and replacing old equipment.

Taking the ENERGY STAR Challenge Can Help

• Through the Challenge, EPA encourages building owners and managers to improve energy efficiency across entire building portfolios – not just in individual buildings. Owners of two or more buildings that achieve energy savings of 10% or more may be recognized by EPA as ENERGY STAR Leaders.

• EPA estimates that if each building owner met the Challenge, by 2015 Americans would reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from 15 million vehicles while saving about $10 billion.

How is [Insert Organization name] promoting the

ENERGY STAR Challenge?

• [List Challenge-related activities your organization is undertaking for your members/constituents, such as

– Providing information on how to improve energy efficiency (including directing them to ENERGY STAR tools and resources), and

– Recognizing their achievements.]

How can you participate?

• Building owners and operators take the Challenge by following these important steps:

1. Determine how much energy your buildings and facilities are using

• Enter energy data into Portfolio Manager, EPA’s energy performance rating tool (https://www.energystar.gov/istar/pmpam/)

2. Establish efficiency improvement goals

3. Make energy efficiency improvements

4. Receive recognition

How does EPA recognize organizations for energy efficiency improvements?

• ENERGY STAR Leaders

– Organizations that achieve energy efficiency improvements of 10% or more across their entire building portfolio, and/or

– Organizations with a portfolio-wide average energy performance rating of 75 or higher on EPA’s 1 – 100 scale.

– Recognition includes organization being highlighted on the ENERGY STAR Web site and listed in an EPA press release each October issued as part of Energy Awareness Month.

– For a complete list of ENERGY STAR Leaders go to www.energystar.gov/challenge and select “Leaders” from the right-side column.

How does EPA recognize organizations for energy efficiency improvements?

• ENERGY STAR Label

– For individual buildings that perform in the top 25% for energy performance, as evidenced by achieving a rating of 75 or higher on EPA’s 1 – 100 scale.

– Recognized with a building plaque, listing on ENERGY STAR Web site, opportunity to write a Building Profile case study.

– For a complete list of ENERGY STAR Labeled Buildings go to http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=labeled_buildings.showBuildingSearch.

• ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year

– Organizations that demonstrate superior performance in energy management.

– Crystal award, recognition at annual awards dinner, special logo, inclusion in press release and public service announcement.

– For information on POY go to http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=pt_awards.pt_es_awards.

For More Information

• [Your contact info here]

• www.energystar.gov/challenge