ENERGY STAR

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ENERGY STAR

• Jean Lupinacci, Director
• ENERGY STAR Commercial and Industrial Branch
• Climate Protection Partnerships Division
• US EPA

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ENERGY STAR

• Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through
  large win-win-win opportunities with todays
  energy efficient technologies and practices
• 30 savings in many buildings, homes, and
  facilities
• Provide credible information to buyers to
• reduce transaction (research) costs
• reduce perceptions of risk
• enhance investment in efficient technologies and
  practices
• Work with the marketplace to build on motivations
  of important individual actors

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Build Upon Intersection ofMarket Interests
Consumer is Key
Complement Codes and Standards, other Policies
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Broad Strategies

• Residential Commercial / Industrial
• Labeled Products Corporate energy
  management
• -- 40 products / 1400 manufacturers --
  benchmarking, goals, upgrades
• -- 10-60 more efficient (management,
  systems more than widgets)
• Labeled New Homes -- whole building labeling
  for excellence
• -- 30 more efficient
• Home Improvement Labeled Products
• Services -- for plug loads -- not system
  components
• -- beyond products
• -- ducts / home sealing Small business
  initiative
• -- whole home retrofits

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Success to date

• Started in 1992 now the government backed symbol
  for energy efficiency
• In 2005, Americans, with help of ENERGY STAR
• saved 12 billion on energy bills
• prevented ghg emissions equal to 23 million cars
• ENERGY STAR recognized by over 60 of Americans

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To date

• More than 1.5 billion ENERGY STAR products have
  been sold to date.
• More than 2,500 builders have constructed over
  360,000 ENERGY STAR homes.
• EPAs Energy Performance Rating System has been
  used to evaluate more than 21,000 buildings 20
  of office buildings, 13 percent of schools, 21
  of supermarkets, 34 of hospitals, 9 of hotels
  have been benchmarked.
• More than 2,000 buildings have earned the ENERGY
  STAR.

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Commercial Building Opportunities

• Many cost-effective improvements
• efficient building uses 40 less than average
  buildings
• paybacks of less than 3 to 5 years
• Focus on Whole Building Performance
• promote integration of systems
• about energy savings -- not presence of new
  technology
• achieve twice the savings for a given investment
• Performance Measurement System
• can not manage what you can not measure
• fix missing market information
• how to measure efficiency / performance
• when is a building efficient
• provide information linked to real market
  transactions (like energy bills)

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ENERGY STAR Challenge

• National campaign focused on building energy
  efficiency promote 10, 20, 30 improvements
  and strategic energy management
• Launched in March 2005
• Now supported by 50 leading associations and
  states across all sectors (more than half of US
  states)
• Creating national call to action to reduce energy
  use in all building sectors
• K-12 Schools
• Higher Education
• State and Local Government
• Commercial and Corporate Real Estate
• Healthcare

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A Changing Landscape IncreasesImportance of
Energy Efficiency

• Energy consumption and costs are rising
• Market volatility is increasing risk and
  uncertainty
• Managing the risk of climate change is becoming a
  reality for many organizations.
• Trend toward green building is not necessarily
  leading to energy-efficient buildings

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Energy Efficiency Smart Business

• Taxpayers benefits from cost-effective
  reductions
• ENERGY STAR qualified offices demonstrate
• 35 less energy use
• 0.50 per square foot less to operate
• Energy performance persists over multiple years
• Designing to earn ENERGY STAR helps high
  performance green buildings stay within
  conventional construction budget

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Energys Role in Green Building

• Energy efficiency should be foundation for green
  building
• Market assumes green buildings are energy
  efficient
• Studies now show that this is not necessarily the
  case
• ROI for green buildings comes largely from energy
  
• Large environmental benefits from reducing
  greenhouse gas and other air emissions.
• Cant rely solely on technology and code
  requirements for energy performance
• Problem
• Better than code is only weakly correlated to
  energy performance
• Specific technologies do not guarantee energy
  performance

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Energy performance gap

• Normalized EUI for existing office buildings
  varies widely
• 30 kbtu/ft2 to 340 kBtu/ft2
• Age and equipment not significant drivers of EUI

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Simple Energy Metric
Is 80 kBtu/SF/YR high or low for a building?
Energy Performance EPA Rating
Fuel Efficiency MPG
Is 10 MPG high or low for an automobile?
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Simple Energy Metric
EPAs Energy Performance Rating System

• Normalize Building Energy Consumption from bills
• Weather, hours, occupant density, plug load
• Whole-building mpg rating
• Compare
• Benchmark against similar buildings in national
  stock
• Receive 1-100 score
• Reward
• Buildings in top 25 qualify for the ENERGY STAR
• Buildings with intent to perform in top 25
  designated Designed to Earn ENERGY STAR.
• Organizations with portfolio improvement 10, 20,
  and 30 point qualify as ENERGY STAR Leader

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Simple Energy Metric

• Building types with ratings
• Office Buildings
• Courthouses
• Bank branches
• K -12 Schools
• Supermarkets/Grocery Stores
• Hospitals
• Hotels/Motels
• Medical Offices
• Warehouses
• Residence Halls/Dormitories

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ENERGY STAR

• Estimate Energy Use at Design
• Target Finder
• Verify energy use in operation
• Portfolio Manager
• Reduce energy across portfolio
• ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management

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EPA Provides EnergyManagement Guidance

• ENERGY STARs Guidelines for Energy Management
• Organization-wide commitment to continuous
  improvement
• Best practices from top ENERGY STAR partners.

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EPA Provides Management Tools

• Establishing Organizational Commitment
• Partnership Letter
• Communication resources
• Measuring Energy Performance
• Objective, accessible, 3rd party rating system
• Demonstrating Financial Value
• Calculators to estimate earnings/share, asset
  value, cost of delay
• Analysis to confirm financial performance link
• Recognition for Leadership
• ENERGY STAR Label, Awards

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EPA Provides Technical Guidance

• Technical Guidance to make building more
  efficient
• Building Upgrade Manual for existing buildings
• New Design Guidance
• Operations and Maintenance Reports
• Case Studies/Registry of Energy Star qualified
  buildings
• Monthly networking meeting

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New Model for Achieving Green and Energy
Efficiency

• Guiding Principles for Federal Leadership in High
  Performance and Sustainable Buildings focus on
  performance
• Establish whole building performance target
• Design to Earn ENERGY STAR
• Reduce energy cost budget 30 from ASHRAE
  90.1-2004
• Increase efficiency of components
• Measure and verify energy use
• Compare to design target
• Use EPAs energy performance rating

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ENERGY STAR Can Help
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Opportunities to IntegrateENERGY STAR

• Use EPAs Energy Performance Rating System to
  benchmark and set improvement goals
• Formally incorporate performance targets into
• Leases
• RFQs, RFPs
• Energy Services Agreements, and
• New building contracts with architects and
  builders.

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energystar.gov
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If its not energy efficient
its not on a sustainable path.