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A Dealer Guide to ENERGY STAR®: Putting Energy into Profits
The purpose of this 33-page guide is to help automobile dealers and their managers learn about opportunities to save energy and reduce utility costs. Saving energy also reduces emissions of greenhouse gases that may contribute to climate change.
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NADA’s Energy Stewardship Initiative: Meet the ENERGY STAR Challenge
This two-page fact sheet outlines how to participate in NADA’s Energy Stewardship Initiative, the benefits of participation, and four easy steps to energy savings.
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Putting Energy into Profits: Small Business Guide
Putting Energy into Profits is a 39-page guide that contains a wealth of useful energy efficiency information for small business owners, including:
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Commercial real estate resourcesView All Resources >
8 Great Strategies to Engage Tenants on Energy Efficiency
This 45-slide PDF presentation details eight ways to engage your employees and tenants in saving energy. It also includes plenty of examples from successful ENERGY STAR partners!
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ABM Engineering Services and USAA Real Estate Company: SPP Success Story
ABM Engineering Services assists USAA Real Estate Company in achieving 25% reductions in energy and water use throughout USAA's commercial portfolio.
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Beacon Capital Partners, LLC’s Energy Policy
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.
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Congregation resourcesView All Resources >
ENERGY STAR Congregations Handout
Use this 2-page handout to learn a summary of ENERGY STAR offerings for congregations, quick tips for saving energy in religious worship facilities, and how to sign up for the ENERGY STAR Congregations Network.
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ENERGY STAR Score for Worship Facilities
The ENERGY STAR Score for Worship Facilities applies to churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, meetinghouses, or any other buildings that primarily function as a place of religious worship.
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ENERGY STAR® Congregations Energy Stewardship Action List
Virtually all faith traditions teach stewardship of life-supporting natural resources. Wise energy use also supports good financial stewardship of congregational funds.
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Corporate real estate resourcesView All Resources >
8 Great Strategies to Engage Tenants on Energy Efficiency
This 45-slide PDF presentation details eight ways to engage your employees and tenants in saving energy. It also includes plenty of examples from successful ENERGY STAR partners!
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ABM Engineering Services and USAA Real Estate Company: SPP Success Story
ABM Engineering Services assists USAA Real Estate Company in achieving 25% reductions in energy and water use throughout USAA's commercial portfolio.
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DataTrends: Energy Use in Office Buildings
This factsheet examines how office buildings that benchmark in Portfolio Manager use energy.
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Data center resourcesView All Resources >
Best Practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Data Center Design
Use this guide to learn best practices for energy-efficient data center design. The guide covers the Information Technology (IT) systems and their environmental conditions, data center air management, cooling and electrical systems, on-site generation, and heat recovery.
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Data Center FAQs
Use this document to better understand EPA's 1-100 ENERGY STAR score for data centers and learn how to benchmark your data center in Portfolio Manager. It includes answers to common questions about the score, the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, and energy measurement.
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Data Center Industry Leaders Agreement on Energy Efficiency Guiding Principles, February 1, 2010
Read this guidance to understand and implement the standardized energy efficiency measurements, metrics, and reporting conventions for data centers. The document also contains contact information for industry leaders developing the national guidance standards.
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Entertainment venue resourcesView All Resources >
ENERGY STAR Success Story: Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals
On April 10, 2006, the Cardinals opened their new 46,000-seat retro-style ballpark, Busch Stadium, in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. That year, the Cardinals became the first team in almost 100 years to win a World Series Championship in the inaugural season of a new ballpark.
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ENERGY STAR Success Story: Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati Reds
Located on the winding banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, the Great American Ball Park is home to the Cincinnati Reds, baseball's first professional franchise.
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ENERGY STAR Success Story: Mark Twain House & Museum
Built in 1874, the Mark Twain House & Museum is considered one of the premier tourist attractions in the State of Connecticut.
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Federal agency resourcesView All Resources >
Ameresco and Elmendorf Air Force Base: SPP Success Story
Elmendorf Air Force Base undertakes an energy savings performance contract with Ameresco focusing on a heating system decentralization that produced over $5 million in savings in year one alone.
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Ameresco and Hill Air Force Base: SPP Success Story
Hill Air Force and Ameresco Landfill Gas Generator Energy Project is the first of its kind for the Department of Defense and the State of Utah.
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Building Energy Use Benchmarking Guidance
This document provides benchmarking guidance and reviews the benchmarking requirements for federal facilities per the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007. Use this document to understand and implement EISA 2007 benchmarking requirements for federal buildings.
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Grocery & convenience stores resourcesView All Resources >
Avista Advantage and Food Lion: SPP Success Story
Food Lion has saved nearly $105 million in direct energy costs and prevented 1.5 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.
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ENERGY STAR Building Upgrade Manual Chapter 11: Supermarkets and Grocery Stores
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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ENERGY STAR Score for Supermarkets/Grocery Stores
The ENERGY STAR Score for Supermarkets/Grocery Stores applies to properties used for the retail sale of primarily food and beverage products.
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Healthcare resourcesView All Resources >
An Eye on Energy Performance (Provider, March 2011)
This one-page Provider article tells how proper installation of new equipment and diagnostic testing of existing systems can achieve surprising levels of energy efficiency, even in older buildings.
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Atlantic Energy Services, Inc. and Chemung County Nursing Facility: SPP Success Story
Atlantic Energy implements energy-efficient measures to improve the quality of Chemung County Nursing Facility.
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Best Practices to Improve Energy Performance: Acute Care and Children's Hospitals Low-Cost O&M Checklist
Use this three-page checklist of low-cost O&M practice to identify opportunities, assign responsibility, and track progress toward goals at your facility.
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Higher education resourcesView All Resources >
College/University Student Activity Guide
The ENERGY STAR Student Activity Guide is available to colleges and universities that are looking to improve energy performance on-campus.
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Course Outline and Reading List
This is a six-page outline for a college-level course on commercial building energy efficiency, taught by using the tools and resources provided by EPA's ENERGY STAR program.
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Course Syllabus
This is a fully customizable 11-page syllabus for a college-level course on commercial building energy efficiency, taught by using the tools and resources provided by EPA's ENERGY STAR program.
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Home-based business resourcesView All Resources >
SPP sales flyer for home improvement
Need a hand preparing for an upcoming sales call? This fact sheet provides energy use facts for home improvement, tips on how to talk to this audience, opportunities for savings, key ENERGY STAR resources that you can deliver to them, and case studies from their peers.
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SPP sales flyer for residential home builders
Need a hand preparing for an upcoming sales call? This fact sheet provides energy use facts for residential home builders, tips on how to talk to this audience, opportunities for savings, key ENERGY STAR resources that you can deliver to them, and case studies from their peers.
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Hospitality resourcesView All Resources >
DataTrends: Energy Use in Hotels
The Portfolio Manager DataTrends series is the first-ever analysis of aggregate data stored within ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, pulled from a pool of hundreds of thousands of commercial buildings across the United States.
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ENERGY STAR Building Upgrade Manual Chapter 12: Hotels and Motels
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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ENERGY STAR Score for Hotels
The ENERGY STAR Score for Hotels applies to properties renting overnight accommodations on a room/suite and nightly basis.
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Industrial/manufacturing resourcesView All Resources >
Accurate Air Engineering, Inc. and Kraft Foods Teaming Profile
Accurate Air Engineering helps Kraft save $50,000 with compressed air automation.
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Aelux and Dresser Inc. Teaming Profile
Aelux retrofits over 600 lighting fixtures at Dresser site, saving over $300,000 a year in energy costs.
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Armstrong & Pfizer Teaming Presentation- Energy Efficiency ... Process vs. Program
This presentation explains how Armstrong International, Inc. assissted Pfizer with energy efficiency in regards to process vs. program.
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K-12 school resourcesView All Resources >
A Beautiful World Starts with You Coloring Book (En Espanol)
Download this six-page activity book that's full of fun games and puzzles about saving energy (en Espanol).
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A Beautiful World Starts with You Coloring Book (in English)
Download this six-page activity book that's full of fun games and puzzles about saving energy.
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Atlantic Energy Services, Inc. and Fonda-Fultonville Central School District: SPP Success Story
Atlantic Energy Services, Inc. assists Fonda-Fultonville Central School District in becoming the first New York State public school district to produce 100% of their own electricity completely independent of the utility company.
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Multifamily housing resourcesView All Resources >
ENERGY STAR Success Story: TIAA-CREF Multifamily Housing
This two-page success story outlines how TIAA-CREF made a commitment to reduce operating costs by managing its residential communities with an eye toward greater energy efficiency.
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Energy Transparency in the Multifamily Housing Sector: Executive Summary
This report by the Institute for Market Transformation is intended to serve as a guide for policymakers and multifamily stakeholders on benchmarking and disclosure rules and regulations.
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No‐ and Low‐Cost Energy‐Saving Tips for Multifamily Housing Common Areas
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.
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Restaurant resourcesView All Resources >
ENERGY STAR Guide for Restaurants: Putting Energy into Profits
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.
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Energy Use and Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Restaurants
This two-page fact sheet gives a big-picture overview of how to save energy in restaurants, additional resources to consider, and two real-world success stories.
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Putting Energy into Profits: Small Business Guide
Putting Energy into Profits is a 39-page guide that contains a wealth of useful energy efficiency information for small business owners, including:
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Retail resourcesView All Resources >
Advantage IQ and The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.: SPP Success Story
A&P partners with Advantage IQ and uses ENERGY STAR benchmarking to drive energy savings.
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Avista Advantage and Food Lion: SPP Success Story
Food Lion has saved nearly $105 million in direct energy costs and prevented 1.5 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.
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DataTrends: Energy Use in Retail Stores
The Portfolio Manager DataTrends series is the first-ever analysis of aggregate data stored within ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, pulled from a pool of hundreds of thousands of commercial buildings across the United States.
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Senior care resourcesView All Resources >
Atlantic Energy Services, Inc. and Chemung County Nursing Facility: SPP Success Story
Atlantic Energy implements energy-efficient measures to improve the quality of Chemung County Nursing Facility.
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ENERGY STAR Score for Senior Care Communities
The ENERGY STAR Score for Senior Care Communities applies to buildings that house and provide care and assistance for elderly residents.
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Small business resourcesView All Resources >
A Dealer Guide to ENERGY STAR®: Putting Energy into Profits
The purpose of this 33-page guide is to help automobile dealers and their managers learn about opportunities to save energy and reduce utility costs. Saving energy also reduces emissions of greenhouse gases that may contribute to climate change.
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ENERGY STAR Guide for Restaurants: Putting Energy into Profits
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.
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Energy Use and Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Restaurants
This two-page fact sheet gives a big-picture overview of how to save energy in restaurants, additional resources to consider, and two real-world success stories.
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State and local government resourcesView All Resources >
Easy Access to Energy Improvement Funds in the Public Sector
This two-page primer provides an overview of two of the most popular mechanisms for financing energy efficiency projects in the public sector: performance contracts and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements.
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ENERGY STAR® Performance Contracting Best Practices
This 19-page primer is designed to establish best practices for energy service companies (ESCOs) that are implementing energy performance contract (EPC) projects by integrating several publicly available Web-based ENERGY STAR tools that the U.S.
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Energy-Efficient County Buildings
In May of 2012, the National Association of Counties and the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) launched a study to learn more about how counties use energy in their buildings.
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