ENERGY STAR Congregations and Portfolio Manager Program Review Jerry Lawson, National Manager ENERGY STAR Congregations Steve Bell (Contractor) Energy and Security Group LLC

2 Agenda  Overview of EPA ENERGY STAR Congregations Program  EPA House of Worship Rating and Portfolio Manager  Questions and Discussion

America’s Houses of Worship  If America’s 370,000 congregations cut energy use just 10% would save:  Save nearly $315 million for missions, other priorities  Provide more than 1.8 billion “new” kWh electricity without additional cost and pollution  Prevent more than 1.3 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions Equivalent to the emissions of about 240,000 cars Equivalent to planting nearly 300,000 million acres of trees  But, 30% savings are typical…nearly $1 billion can be saved

Strategic Approach to Energy Management Assess current energy performance Set reduction goals Implement Action Plan Track savings over time Reward improvements

Join ENERGY STAR Tools and resources to help save money Join ENERGY STAR - Commit to Challenge Portfolio Manager ENERGY STAR Qualified Products Portfolio Manager Guidebooks, Fact Sheets, Calculators, Energy 101 Trainings Training & Presentations Awards Program and Success Stories

EPA Rating For Houses of Worship and Portfolio Manager

9 Is Your Building Performing Well? Fuel Efficiency MPG Is 18 MPG high or low for an automobile? Energy Performance EPA Benchmarking Is 80 kBtu/SF/YR high or low for a building?

10 EPA Rating Objectives  Motivate Houses of Worship to develop a strategic approach to energy management  Convey information about energy performance in a simple metric that can be understood by all levels of the organization and members of the congregation

11 EPA Ratings Characteristics  Monitor actual as-billed energy data  Create a whole building indicator  Capture the interactions of building systems not individual equipment efficiency  Track energy use accounting for weather and operational changes over time  Provide a peer group comparison  Compare a building’s energy performance to its national peer group  Track how changes at a building level alter the building’s standing relative to its peer group

12 EPA Ratings Technical foundation  The rating does  Evaluate as billed energy use relative to building operations  Normalize for operational characteristics (e.g., size, seating capacity, hours of operation, climate)  Depend on a statistically representative sample of the US commercial building population  The rating does not  Attempt to sum the energy use of each piece of equipment  Normalize for technology choices or market conditions (e.g., type of lighting, energy price)  Explain why a building operates as it does

13 Religious Worship Required Inputs  Gross floor area  Measured from exterior walls  Include area at the base of any space with vaulted or high ceilings  Include the building with the worship area only (not other buildings located next door)  Rating only applies to facilities that are at least 1,000 square foot  Maximum seating capacity  Maximum permanent seating capacity  If no seating area, the maximum number of worshipers that can be accommodated in the main worship areas  Rating only applies to facilities that have at least 25 seats but no more than 4,000 seats

14 Religious Worship Required Inputs  Weekdays of operation  Select from number from 0 to 5  Can included times when building is used for religious services, choir practice, administrative functions, committee meetings, classes, or other community activities  Hours of operation per week  Approximate hours of operation each week  Number of personal computers  Count of personal computers as may be found in administrative areas or to support audio-visual capabilities. This includes servers.

15 Religious Worship Required Inputs  Presence of cooking facilities  Yes - institutional/commercial cooking occurs to support receptions or other functions  No - there is only a small area with a microwave  Number of commercial refrigeration units  Include - walk-in refrigeration or other larger units  Do not include - vending machines or residential-type refrigerators  Don’t forget to include Parking Lots if they are on the main building meter.

Live Demonstration

But What is Next?

Generating a Statement of Energy Performance

Generate an SEP

Interpreting Your SEP Label/Set Energy Performance Target EPA Target Finder EPA GHG Calculator

Apply for the ENERGY STAR Create and Submit Building Profile Submit SEP & Application Professional Engineer Verifies Energy Performance Rating 75 to 100

Setting a Performance Target

Setting a Performance Target Results

Interpreting Your SEP Label/Set Energy Performance Target EPA Target Finder EPA GHG Calculator

What Does This Tell Me? GHG Equivalency Calculator

27 Questions and Discussion

28 Thank You