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ENERGY STAR Benchmarking Starter Kit
Benchmarking your buildings' energy performance is a key first step to understanding and reducing energy consumption and your carbon footprint. All buildings can assess their energy performance, water efficiency, and carbon emissions using Portfolio Manager.
You can login to Portfolio Manager to:
- Track energy and water consumption
- Identify under-performing buildings
- Set priorities
- Monitor progress
- Verify improvements
- Receive EPA recognition
Once you have collected the necessary data, benchmarking is quick and simple. It requires only a few minutes a month and provides many valuable results.
The following resources will help a first-time Portfolio Manager user get started with benchmarking. After reviewing these resources, try benchmarking a single building to better understand the value of measuring your performance.
Getting Started
- Use the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Data Collection Worksheet
to identify and gather all the data you'll need to benchmark your building. - Print the Portfolio Manager Quick Reference Guide
(1.3MB) for a handy, at-a-glance guide to the basic steps of using Portfolio Manager. - View animated training providing step-by-step benchmarking instructions.
Beyond Benchmarking
Utilize the strategic Guidelines for Energy Management to learn how your organization can improve its energy and financial performance and be an environmental leader.
Upgrade your building to realize energy savings by using EPA's strategic 5-stage approach in the Building Upgrade Manual.
View a quick list (2.9MB) of ENERGY STAR resources for buildings.
