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Build Your Business with ENERGY STAR

Build Your Business with ENERGY STAR

Last Updated: 
11-7-2016

This document demonstrates how companies that provide commercial building services and energy efficiency products can leverage ENERGY STAR to help their clients use energy more efficiently. Learn how to become an ENERGY STAR partner, use the ENERGY STAR brand as a commercial advantage in your market, and gain access to new customers as an ENERGY STAR Service and Product Provider.

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Service and product provider (SPP),
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ENERGY STAR Guide for Licensed Professionals

Last Updated: 
11-22-2017

The Licensed Professionals Guide provides everything you need to know about verifying applications for ENERGY STAR certification. It outlines the step-by-step process and is required reading if you’re verifying applications for ENERGY STAR certification.

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Service and product provider (SPP),
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Guidelines for Energy Management for Service and Product Providers

Last Updated: 
11-7-2016

Use this guide to develop a highly credible, value-added strategy to help your clients achieve their energy goals. Service and Product Providers can also use this guide to find helpful ENERGY STAR tools and resources to  devise and implement energy-efficient strategies for customers at each step of the way.

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How to use web services

Last Updated: 
11-7-2016

Save your customers time and deliver the added value of ENERGY STAR metrics through ENERGY STAR web services. Use this 12-page resource to learn how to connect with your customers to exchange data via web services using EPA's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool.

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Introduction to the Cash Flow Opportunity Calculator Spreadsheet

Last Updated: 
11-7-2016

This interactive, self-guided presentation shows how to use operating budgets as a potential "source of revenue" to pay for energy efficiency projects. The Cash Flow Opportunity (CFO) Calculator is an interactive calculator that helps quantify the cost of delaying investment in upgrades by addressing three critical questions: How much new energy efficiency equipment can be purchased from the anticipated savings; should this equipment purchase be financed now, or is it better to wait and use cash from a future budget; and is money being lost by waiting for a lower interest rate?

Topic: 
Financial
Market sector: 
Service and product provider (SPP),
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Partnership Requirements for SPPs

Partnership Requirements for Commercial & Industrial Service and Product Providers (SPPs)

Last Updated: 
2-8-2017

Use this three-page document to learn about the requirements that must be met by organizations that would like to join ENERGY STAR as a Service and Product Provider partner.

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Service and Product Provider Press Release Template

Last Updated: 
11-7-2016

ENERGY STAR Service and Product Provider (SPP) partners can customize and issue this sample press release to spread the word about their partnership with ENERGY STAR.

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Service and product provider (SPP),
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Verification process for ENERGY STAR certified buildings

Last Updated: 
11-7-2016

This 5-page background document summarizes the process for verifying applications for ENERGY STAR certification. It also addresses the rationale for requiring that only licensed professionals (professional engineers and registered architects) can verify and stamp applications, and solicits input on this requirement. The deadline for submitting comments has closed. Thank you for your feedback. 

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