Benchmarking Energy

Different equipment and corresponding descriptions in an Excel sheetSchool Energy Assessment (SEA) Form

This form is designed to help schools collect specific information that will be useful for providing an assessment of the facility, capturing important building characteristics including heating, ventilation and air conditioning system details, and site energy use intensity. Collecting this information is an important first step in identifying potential retrofit opportunities for your school and estimating costs, savings, and health and safety benefits from implementing Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs).

 

A computer monitor with "Portfolio Manager" across the topGet Started with Energy Star Portfolio Manager

Energy Star Portfolio Manager allows you to benchmark your school, measure and compare your buildings energy to similar buildings, past consumption or reference a performance level.  It provides an ENERGY STAR score to compare your buildings performance to similar schools nationwide, and its normalized for weather and operating characteristics. This page will help you: find out what you'll need to benchmark, set up and populate your account in Portfolio Manager, automate your data submission, see if your utility provides energy data for benchmarking, and web services to exchange data with Portfolio Manager.

 

Large stone building with Department of Energy Logo on topK-12 Energy Benchmark Factsheet

Factsheet that summarizes ESPC performance metrics based on projects entered in the NAESCO database, namely implementation cost, energy performance and energy cost savings and simple payback period.