Tools and Resources

ENERGY STAR Guide for Licensed Professionals

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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Guidelines for Energy Management for Service and Product Providers

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

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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Title slide for "What you should know about financing energy efficiency upgrades"

Introduction to the Cash Flow Opportunity Calculator Spreadsheet

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?

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Financial

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Commercial building design,

Letter of Intent: Architect of Record (AOR)

This letter serves to notify EPA that you, an architect of record, are submitting a project for consideration for Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR. The letter also signifies that your project is expected to earn an ENERGY STAR score of 75 or greater in Portfolio Manager. This downloadable Word document can be modified.

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Recognition,

Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR

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Commercial building design,

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Letter of Intent: Commercial Real Estate Developer/Owner

This letter serves to notify the ENERGY STAR program that you, a real estate owner or developer, are submitting a project for consideration for Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR. The letter also signifies that your project is expected to earn a building performance score of 75 or greater in Portfolio Manager. This downloadable Word document can be modified.

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Recognition,

Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR

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

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

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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Verification process for ENERGY STAR certified buildings

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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Technical documentation

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