ENERGY STAR benchmarking software

ENERGY STAR is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program helping businesses and individuals save money and protect our environment through superior energy efficiency. ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager  is a free online tool hosted by the ENERGY STAR program to measure and track basic energy, water, and waste consumption. This is called benchmarking, and it’s the first step to saving energy at your building.

To benchmark a building with ENERGY STAR, utility bill data is entered into Portfolio Manager allowing your building’s energy use to be compared to similar buildings, past consumption, or a reference performance level. Both Portfolio Manager and the ENERGY STAR program are voluntary, though many jurisdictions also use Portfolio Manager as the primary compliance tool for state and local benchmarking and reporting mandates.

EnergyCAP’s ENERGY STAR benchmarking software interface lets you submit building energy data to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager directly from your EnergyCAP database. Connecting and linking data between the two platforms is easy, seamless, and almost instantaneous. EnergyCAP UtilityManagement can even automatically create the meters in your Portfolio Manager account, eliminating double entry. New to benchmarking, or want to see how much easier the process is with EnergyCAP UtilityManagement? Hear directly from the EPA and one of EnergyCAP’s most successful benchmarking customers in this webinar.

Without the ability to automatically transmit energy data to ENERGY STAR from a single source of truth, building owners must gather this information building-by-building, submit it manually, and risk data-entry errors that could negatively affect building scores or jeopardize submittal acceptance.

EnergyCAP’s ENERGY STAR benchmarking software submits the utility data already audited and stored in inside your EnergyCAP database. Submit data manually or automatically, see your ENERGY STAR building score and metrics, and track your ENERGY STAR data history—all directly from UtilityManagement.

ENERGY STAR energy benchmarking metrics and score data can be viewed at the building or portfolio level, tracked in a multitude of EnergyCAP reports, and visualized on dashboards. EnergyCAP’s extensive utility data analytics tell you exactly how your energy usage is trending, helping you predict whether and how much your score will improve with your next submission.

An ENERGY STAR rating score, expressed as a number on a 1–100 energy rating scale, rates performance on a percentile basis: buildings with a score of 50 perform better than 50% of their peers. First introduced in 1999, the score has been adopted by leading organizations across the United States because it offers a simple way to evaluate energy use, prioritize investments, and communicate relative performance across a portfolio of buildings. An ENERGY STAR building energy rating:

• Demonstrates your commitment to best practices in building operations and maintenance
• Satisfies emerging legislative mandates
• Provides a respected and impartial assessment of performance
• Increases the value of building and leased spaces
• Helps enlist the support and participation of building occupants