Energy management guidance

The Cash Flow Opportunity Calculator helps inform strategic decisions about financing energy efficiency projects. This document provides an explanation of the calculations and methodology at work behind the calculator.

This presentation discusses various levels of plant energy assessments and provides resources to help you get started.

Read this report to learn how the energy performance of the cement manufacturing industry has improved based on data collected by EPA's ENERGY STAR cement plant Energy Performance Indicator (EPI).

This eight-page brochure outlines the key steps and benefits of benchmarking a facility's energy performance over time. Familiarize yourself with the process and learn about all the tools that EPA has available to help you along the way.

Use this checklist to ensure your building is operating at peak efficiency. Building managers can evaluate opportunities to improve energy performance in operations and maintenance, occupants' behaviors, lighting, and equipment.

Use this three-page checklist of low-cost O&M practice to identify opportunities, assign responsibility, and track progress toward goals at your facility.

The 265-page Building Upgrade Manual is a comprehensive guide to profitable energy efficiency upgrades presented in an easy-to-understand framework designed especially for ENERGY STAR partners.

The Cash Flow Opportunity Calculator helps inform strategic decisions about financing energy efficiency projects.

Use this tool to determine your container glass manufacuring plant's ENERGY STAR 1 - 100 energy performance indicator score.

This report describes the work of EPA and the automobile manufacturing industry to develop an Energy Performance Indicator (EPI) for assembly plants. These types of plants are defined as those that produce passenger cars, light-duty trucks, sport utility vehicles, and vans in the United States.

This report describes the data and statistical methods used to construct the Energy Performance Indicator (EPI) for corn refining plants. It also explains how the EPI was developed to provide a plant-level indicator of energy efficiency by working with the corn refining industry.

This report describes the data and statistical methods used to construct the Energy Performance Indicator (EPI) for glass manufacturing plants. It also explains how the EPI was developed to provide a plant-level indicator of energy efficiency by working with the glass manufacturing industry.

This report describes the data and statistical methods used to construct the Energy Performance Indicator (EPI) for pulp, paper, and paperboard mill plants.

This presentation shows how Ford Motor Company's Sustainability Director and Energy Manager were able to drive change in energy use within the corporation.

Energy consumption is equal to 3–8 percent of the production costs of beer, making energy efficiency improvement an important way to reduce costs, especially in times of high energy price volatility.

This guide introduces energy efficiency opportunities available for petroleum refineries. It begins with descriptions of the trends, structure, and production of the refining industry and the energy used in the refining and conversion processes.

Use this guide to learn cost-effective ways to reduce the energy use of your concrete plant while still maintaining the quality and yield of your products.

Use this guide to learn cost-effective ways to reduce the energy use of your dairy processing plant while still maintaining the quality of your products.

This guide discusses energy efficiency practices and energy-efficient technologies that can be implemented at the component, process, system, and organizational levels of the U.S. glass industry.

This guide discusses energy efficiency practices and energy efficient technologies that can be implemented at the component, process, system, and organizational levels of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.

Use this guide to learn cost-effective ways to reduce the energy use of your textile plant while still maintaining the quality of manufactured products. The guide outlines available measures for energy efficiency in the textile industry, including best practices and technologies.

This guide discusses energy efficiency opportunities available for assembly plants. Where available, the authors provide specific primary energy savings for each energy efficiency measure based on case studies, as well as references to technical literature.

Use this spreadsheet to compare your energy management practices to the best practices outlined in EPA's ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management. This matrix will help you ensure multiple buildings implement a consistent program.

The Building Upgrade Manual is a comprehensive guide to profitable energy efficiency upgrades presented in an easy-to-understand framework designed especially for ENERGY STAR partners.

The Building Upgrade Manual is a comprehensive guide to profitable energy efficiency upgrades presented in an easy-to-understand framework designed especially for ENERGY STAR partners.

The Building Upgrade Manual is a comprehensive guide to profitable energy efficiency upgrades presented in an easy-to-understand framework designed especially for ENERGY STAR partners.

The Building Upgrade Manual is a comprehensive guide to profitable energy efficiency upgrades presented in an easy-to-understand framework designed especially for ENERGY STAR partners.

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The Building Upgrade Manual is a comprehensive guide to profitable energy efficiency upgrades presented in an easy-to-understand framework designed especially for ENERGY STAR partners.

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The Building Upgrade Manual is a comprehensive guide to profitable energy efficiency upgrades presented in an easy-to-understand framework designed especially for ENERGY STAR partners.

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Use this resource to help your restaurant save energy and water and boost your bottom line while helping to protect the environment. The guide discusses appliances, lighting, heating and cooling, and waste management for your business, and provides tips and easy steps to help you get started.

Use this guide to think through your corporate energy management strategy and ensure future energy success. This guide will help you understand likely influential factors on the future state of energy in the U.S. and plan an energy management strategy accordingly.

This energy tips 2-pager explains how to determine the cost of compressed air in your plant.

This tool will help you track your energy performance and meet your energy management goals easily. The tool is most helpful for manufacturing facility managers who track and manage energy use. The tool will track your energy use, cost, and intensity, as well as greenhouse gas emissions.

This easy, one-page checklist transforms the four strategies presented in the report, Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead, into actionable items for executives, senior managers, and board members.

This 46-page report from Portland Energy Conservation Inc. (PECI) presents an overview of the 15 best practices building owners and managers can employ to make their buildings more energy-efficient.

Use this tool to determine your frozen fried potato plant's ENERGY STAR 1 - 100 energy performance indicator score.

Use this slide presentation to explain to management at your company how using ENERGY STAR resources can help improve your energy performance. The presentation explains what the ENERGY STAR program is and how EPA works with companies to develop strong energy management programs.

This  presentation discusses energy savings opportunities in process heating for the corn refining industry

Creating an energy policy is a key step in formalizing your organization's commitment to saving energy. After all, you’ll be much more likely to achieve lasting results when energy efficiency is integrated as a core element of your organization’s business practices.

Use this guide to learn cost-effective ways to reduce the energy use of your plant while still maintaining the quality of your products. It discusses energy-efficient best practices and technologies for a broad spectrum of companies.

Use this tool to incorporate energy-efficient lighting in your motor vehicle plant. The spreadsheet lists best practice lighting levels from companies participating in EPA's ENERGY STAR Motor Vehicle Focus.

This two-page fact sheet outlines no‐ and low‐cost measures that ENERGY STAR partners have found to be effective in reducing energy consumption and operating expenses in multifamily housing communities.

Submit your ENERGY STAR application online! Select the program to which you would like to apply, identify contacts from your organization, and complete your partnership agreement. You can also check on the status of a previously submitted application using your application ID.

Use this tool to determine the ENERGY STAR 1 - 100 energy performance indicator score of your pharmaceutical manufacturing plant.

Download this .mp4 file to watch the Global Business Network’s Peter Schwartz discuss the four strategies that American businesses can use to prepare for four possible scenarios for the United States in 2020, and the possible energy impacts of each one.

This 26-page report from Portland Energy Conservation Inc. (PECI) presents an overview of best practices associated with the use of portable dataloggers. This document describes the importance and advantages of short-term diagnostic monitoring for building owners and managers.

Use this sample letter to make an official commitment on behalf of your organization to purchase ENERGY STAR certified products.

Use this tool to determine the ENERGY STAR 1 - 100 energy performance indicator score of your pulp mill plant. The Energy Performance Indicator (EPI) will help your company improve its energy efficiency by comparing your energy performance to similar mills in the U.S.

This 39-page guidebook provides congregational facility owners and managers with actionable guidance to improve energy efficiency easily and cost-effectively, with links to numerous resources that are available both from ENERGY STAR and a wide variety of other organizations.

This two-page technical sheet outlines the advantages of using LED exit signs, potential savings, features, and how to identify what type of exit sign you currently have in your building.

This guide helps small and mid-sized manufacturers apply EPA's Guidelines for Energy Management to their own company. At every step of the way, the guide presents relevant ENERGY STAR tools and resources to help.

Teaming Up to Save Energy is a “how-to” guide on building an energy management team. This 40-page booklet discusses the structure, launch, and maintenance of an energy team.

This presentation discusses Toyota's Treasure Hunt process.

Use this guide to learn where you can save energy in your data center. The guide uses best practices for program design and implementation to illustrate how to plan strategies, perform measurements, and track program performance.

Creating an energy policy is a key step in formalizing your organization's commitment to saving energy. After all, you’ll be much more likely to achieve lasting results when energy efficiency is integrated as a core element of your organization’s business practices.