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The following materials can be used by Service and Product Providers (SPPs) to educate employees, potential and existing clients and others about ENERGY STAR. These materials can also be used to market your partnership with ENERGY STAR.

General Resources for SPPs

Build Your Business with ENERGY STAR PDF (599KB)

Learn how partnering with ENERGY STAR will give your company a market advantage, helping you to bring value to your customers and more sales to your organization. ENERGY STAR tools and resources can help you to devise strategies that are right for your customers, and to implement energy performance improvement projects faster and more efficiently.

Service and Product Provider Press Release Template DOC (30KB)

Once an ENERGY STAR Partner, customize this template to communicate how your company is utilizing its partnership with ENERGY STAR to improve the energy performance of its clients by implementing proven energy management strategies.

Guidelines for Energy Management—for SPPs PDF (179KB)

Use the EPA Guidelines for Energy Management, a framework developed from ENERGY STAR Partner’s successes, to more effectively help your customers reap the benefits of superior energy efficiency. SPPs can help clients follow the Guidelines to gain control of energy consumption and costs.

Energy Performance Rating System—for SPPs PDF (179KB)

Review this document to learn about EPA’s energy performance rating system and how you can provide this valuable benchmarking service to your customers. You can also learn how service and product providers that provide energy information and bill handling services can host the rating system in their own Web-based products.

Market Your Offerings

Customizable Marketing Brochures

SPP Partners gain access to numerous co-branding materials to leverage your partnership with ENERGY STAR. These materials highlight the expertise of SPP Partners in delivering improved facility energy performance, financial savings, and helpful energy information services to energy users in specific commercial and institutional sectors. Contact your SPP account manager to access these materials.

Looking for Energy Solutions

Distribute these documents to your customers and potential customers to help them recognize how ENERGY STAR SPPs can help make energy decisions that are good for the environment and their organization. Sector-specific messages allow you to effectively communicate the value of energy efficiency and the benefits of working with an ENERGY STAR SPP to energy users who are looking for energy solutions:

SPP Directory Postcard PDF (218KB)

Use this postcard to help your customers locate your company profile in the free, online SPP Directory—a listing of ENERGY STAR SPPs who can provide products and services to help reduce energy use and add to the bottom line. The Directory is a valuable marketing tool, with over 27,000 searches conducted annually.

Additional Resources

Challenge Toolkit

Use the ENERGY STAR Challenge Toolkit to create and implement your communications plan. The kit offers suggestions and examples for communicating to people in your organization, including employees and upper management, as well as to clients and other stakeholders.

ENERGY STAR Logo and Guidelines

Associate your organization with ENERGY STAR, a nationally recognized brand. Leveraging the ENERGY STAR brand will increase visibility and draw attention to your organization.

Web Linking Policy

Follow these guidelines to have ENERGY STAR provide a hyperlink to your Web site.