The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) offers links to tools that can help agencies reduce energy use and meet federal laws and requirements. Tools include software, calculators, data sets, and databases created by the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal organizations.
To find a tool, browse by title, description, type, or category. Click a column heading to sort the table.
| Title | Description | Type | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| This National Institute of Standards and Technology program helps compute and analyze capital investments in buildings. | Software | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses | |
| Comprehensive Annual Energy Data and Sustainability Performance | This FEMP tool allows users to view and download publically available data tables of agency energy and water consumption and costs by end-use sector, efficiency investment information, and progress toward key goals. | Data | Facility Reporting |
| This National Renewable Energy Laboratory Web section offers charts that indicate capital cost estimates for distributed generation renewable energy technologies. | Data | Renewable Energy Projects | |
| The EnergyPlus Simulation Program helps building designers and owners save money, reduce energy, and improve indoor air quality. | Software | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses | |
| This Pacific Northwest National Laboratory software provides a comprehensive, integrated, resource-planning approach to selecting technologies with a minimum life cycle cost. | Software | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses | |
| This FEMP online tool estimates the size and costs of solar systems. | Calculator | Renewable Energy | |
| Energy Cost Savings Calculator for Air-Cooled Electric Chillers | This FEMP calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for air-cooled electric chillers. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products |
| This FEMP calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for commercial boilers. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| This FEMP calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for commercial heat pumps. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| This Pacific Northwest National Laboratory calculator simulates the energy usage of both a high efficiency and a standard efficiency air conditioner and compares their energy and economic performance. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| Life Cycle Cost Estimate for ENERGY STAR-Qualified Air Source Heat Pumps | This ENERGY STAR calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for energy-efficient air source heat pumps. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products |
| Life Cycle Cost Estimate for ENERGY STAR-Qualified Central Air Conditioners | This ENERGY STAR calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for energy-efficient central air conditioners. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products |
| This ENERGY STAR calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for electric and gas water heaters. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| Savings Calculator for ENERGY STAR-Qualified Office Equipment | This ENERGY STAR calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for energy-efficient gas residential furnaces. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products |
| This ENERGY STAR calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for compact fluorescent lamps. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| Savings Calculator for ENERGY STAR-Qualified Commercial Kitchen Equipment | This ENERGY STAR calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for energy-efficient commercial kitchen equipment. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products |
| This ENERGY STAR calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for energy-efficient appliances. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| This FEMP calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for commercial ice machines. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| This FEMP calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for faucets and showerheads. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| This FEMP calculator allows Federal agencies to enter their own input values to estimate energy and cost savings for urinals. | Calculator | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| This software from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory assists with estimating heating and cooling costs. | Software | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses | |
| The Certification Database houses certification reports and compliance statements submitted by manufacturers for covered products and equipment subject to Federal conservation standards. | Database | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| This Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory online tool enables energy service companies and their customers to update and track project-level information, generate basic reports, and benchmark projects against existing data. | Software | Energy Savings Performance Contracts | |
| General Services Administration (GSA) Carbon Footprint and Green Procurement Tool | This voluntary tool was developed by GSA to assist agencies in managing GHGs as required by E.O. 13514. | Calculator | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses |
| This tool is used by energy service companies during the ESPC ENABLE process. | Calculator | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses | |
| This Building Technologies Office directory provides information on building software tools for evaluating energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability in buildings. | Software | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses | |
| Federal Energy Management Program Acquisition Guidance for Lighting Products | FEMP provides acquisition guidance and federal efficiency requirements across a variety of product categories, including exterior lighting. This tool uses search criteria to provide only relevant lighting products from the FEMP Acquisition Guidance Product List. | Software | Outdoor Solid State Lighting |
| This tool computes an average annual escalation rate for a specified time period, which can be used as an escalation rate for contract payments in energy savings performance contracts and utility energy services contracts. | Software | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses | |
| This FEMP tool tracks agency performance of energy and water evaluations, project implementation and follow-up measures, and annual building benchmarking requirements. | Database | Facility Reporting | |
| This map shows case studies of efficient technologies deployed in federal applications across the nation. | Map | Technology Deployment | |
| FleetDASH tracks participating federal agencies’ fleet fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and vehicle inventories throughout the year. | Database | Sustainable Federal Fleets | |
| This map provides information about rainwater harvesting regulations throughout the United States. | Map | Water Efficiency | |
| These maps and graphs illustrate electricity consumption at 7,000 covered federal facilities and the potential for renewable energy technology opportunities and federal incentives at these sites. | Map | Renewable Energy Projects | |
| This tool helps agencies create a notice of opportunity that complies with federal requirements and meets agency needs. | Form | Energy Savings Performance Contracts | |
| This tool helps federal sites identify a comprehensive suite of water efficiency projects, especially targeted at energy savings performance contracts and utility energy service contracts. | Data | Water Efficiency | |
| The Federal Energy Management Program's (FEMP) Low Standby Power Product List features manufacturer-supplied standby power data for three types of computers: desktop, thin client, and workstation. | Application | Energy-Efficient Products | |
| This simple calculator for utility-scale and distributed-generation renewable energy technologies compares the combination of capital costs, operations and maintenance, performance, and fuel costs. | Calculator | Renewable Energy Projects | |
| This interactive map examines the viability of three solar technologies in the U.S. with a high-level annualized economic calculation and with and without potential savings from available renewable energy incentives at the state and federal levels. | Map | Renewable Energy Projects | |
| This collection of maps from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory details renewable energy resources across the United States, including biomass, geothermal, hydrogen, marine and hydrokinetic, solar, and wind. | Map | Renewable Energy Projects | |
| This tool estimates the energy production and cost of energy of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) energy systems worldwide to easily develop estimates of the performance of potential PV installations. | Calculator | Renewable Energy Projects | |
| This tool identifies and prioritizes renewable energy projects at a single site or across a portfolio of sites in multiple cities, states, or countries, each with its own energy requirements, resources, goals, and constraints. | Platform | Renewable Energy Projects | |
| This database lists federal energy management laws and requirements by sustainability goal and includes information about the Guiding Principles for Federal Leadership in High-Performance and Sustainable Buildings. | Database | Laws and Requirements | |
| This application allows federal agencies to request Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) technical assistance with fleet management, project financing, and renewable energy projects. | Application | Technical Assistance | |
| This database allows users to search for live and on-demand training opportunities available from the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP). | Database | Training | |
| This tool provides a quick, basic estimate of how various technology options can contribute to an overall climate action plan for your research campus. | Calculator | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses | |
| Excel tool helps agencies estimate the greenhouse gas mitigation reduction from implementing energy efficiency measures across a portfolio of buildings. | Worksheet | Tools | |
| Excel tool helps agencies project the impact that changes in employee commute modes would have on its employee commute emissions. | Worksheet | Tools | |
| These scoping tools are designed for data center owners and operators to diagnose how energy use is distributed in their data center and determine ways to save energy and money. | Calculator | Tools | |
| New web tool walks government entities through a three-step process to develop effective resilience plans. | Application | Sustainable Buildings and Campuses |