Portfolio Manager, a program of U.S. EPA Energy Star, helps you track and assess energy and water consumption within individual buildings as well as across your entire building portfolio. Enter energy consumption and cost data into your Portfolio Manager account to benchmark building energy performance, assess energy management goals over time, and identify strategic opportunities for savings and recognition opportunities. Also provides a carbon baseline.
Clean Air-Cool Planet’s Campus Carbon Calculator is designed to help campus staff, faculty, students and administrators document and conduct an emissions inventory and understand the campus greenhouse gas footprint. The Calculator can help a campus in taking the first step toward a comprehensive Climate Action or Climate Neutrality Plan.
STEP TWO: Energy Audit
Energy Audits provide detailed information about the energy efficiency of your current building, school or campus. From the audit, you will be able to identify various energy improvements, called Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) that will yield the highest financial payback and greatest energy and carbon reduction results. Your single biggest step toward carbon neutrality is through conservation. Remember the three “R”s; reduce, recycle and reuse!!!
The National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) provides a guide to State Energy Programs (SEP) that identify each state’s programs to assist your school with energy audits, low interest loans and possibly grants for various ECMs including comprehensive energy audits, lighting evaluation, equipment replacement, and projects using renewable and alternative energy.
