Energy benchmarking involves the systematic tracking, analyzing, and comparing of energy consumption across buildings or facilities to identify opportunities for improvement and cost savings. Comparison helps identify which of your buildings are energy stars, and which are energy hogs. From there, you can prioritize energy efficiency investments and allocate resources effectively. Because benchmarking provides a baseline for tracking energy performance over time, it’s easy to measure the impact of energy conservation projects and identify energy consumption trends.

To see how your building’s energy performance stacks up against thousands of similar properties across the U.S., our free energy benchmarking tool can calculate your building’s Energy Usage Intensity (EUI).

When utilizing energy benchmarking solutions, there are multiple ways to organize and compare your data. The most powerful benchmarking metrics highlight buildings and meters with abnormal cost, use, or demand. These often offer the greatest opportunity for cost reduction and energy savings.

Automatic Groups are lists of buildings that are kept up to date for you by EnergyCAP using filters you configure, like number of occupants, building age, or square footage. You can add attributes to buildings and meters and create an unlimited number of automatic groups.

Manual Groups have membership maintained by you. You control which buildings belong in a manual group. Popular groups include “Top 10” most intensive for energy use, cost, or use/cost per square foot.

Beyond basic metrics like energy use per square foot, Custom Building Benchmarks give you additional methods to group and rank your buildings. You can benchmark against variables like occupancy, production output, or operating hours, providing deeper insights into performance drivers. This granular control ensures that your benchmarking efforts yield meaningful and actionable intelligence. Custom building benchmarks:

• Simplify the benchmarking setup process by automating key components.
• Organize benchmarking efforts around appropriate energy metrics.
• Provide flexibility to account for unique situations.
• Provide a basis for taking energy management actions.

Effective energy benchmarking requires accurate data collection, consistent monitoring, and the use of standardized metrics to ensure meaningful comparisons and actionable insights. EnergyCAP’s groups and benchmarking capabilities do the work for you to highlight top performers, identify areas for improvement, and track progress over time.