Energy Star Portfolio Manager - Overview

Energy Star Portfolio Manager - Overview

ESPM-(ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager) is a useful and well-designed online tool to measure and track energy and water consumption, along with the greenhouse gas emissions. The tool can benchmark the performance of a building or a complete portfolio of buildings. The required data inputs for ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager are energy bills and building’s basic information. The ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Web-based solution can set an energy use target and see how much energy a property under design might use compared to similar existing buildings nationwide. In total, ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager can track more than 100 different metrics and uses them to compare a building’s performance against a yearly baseline, national medians, or similar buildings under a portfolio.

The ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager:
(1) assigns buildings an ENERGY STAR score between 1 and 100, which compares a building’s energy performance to similar buildings nationwide, (2) calculates a building’s greenhouse gas emissions from energy use, (3) allows comparing cost savings across buildings under a portfolio, (4) generates ENERGY STAR performance documents for each building by summarizing important energy information, and (5) allows for the sharing of performance data with others.

ESPM is a powerful Energy Management Tool – Helps business and organizations by offering a platform to:
Assess whole building energy and water consumption
Track changes in energy, water, greenhouse gas emissions, and cost over time
Track green power purchase
Share/report data with others
Create custom reports
Apply for ENERGY STAR certification

Energy management solutions, in brief, means to track energy utilization trends in your buildings, helping you increase operational efficiencies. Monitor and manage consumption in real-time and get alerts notifying you of changes, so you can proactively make adjustments and improve your bottom line.

We offer you free Consultancy, and you will have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Act now, our team will make it easy for you to discover our government rebates and taxes incentivizes which will make all the energy improvements within your hands. Our mutual co-operation and our powerful solutions are all that you need to succeed, improve your building performance, qualify for significant certificates like ENERGY STAR, BOMA, LEED, ...and save money. You will never worry or overpay again.

Sources:
Natural resources Canada NRCan
https://www.energystar.gov/buildings
Internet Article Written by Francis Palma, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Screaming Power Inc

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Source Energy

Source Energy

EPA(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) has determined that source energy is the most equitable unit of evaluation. Source energy represents the total amount of raw fuel that is required to operate the building. It incorporates all transmission, delivery, and production losses. By taking all energy use into account, the score provides a complete assessment of energy efficiency in a building.

Commercial buildings use all types of energy, from electricity to natural gas to steam. To compare this diverse set of commercial buildings equitably, we must express the consumption of each type of energy in a single common unit.

We are familiar with site energy, which is the amount of heat and electricity consumed by a building as reflected in your utility bills. Looking at site energy can help us understand how the energy use for an individual building has changed over time. An image depicting the difference between the source and site energy.

Site energy may be delivered to a building in one of two forms: primary or secondary energy. Primary energy is the raw fuel that is burned to create heat and electricity, such as natural gas or fuel oil used in onsite generation. Secondary energy is the energy product (heat or electricity) created from a raw fuel, such as electricity purchased from the grid or heat received from a district steam system. A unit of primary and a unit of secondary energy consumed at the site are not directly comparable because one represents a raw fuel while the other represents a converted fuel.

Therefore, to assess the relative efficiencies of buildings with varying proportions of primary and secondary energy consumption, it is necessary to convert these two types of energy into equivalent units of raw fuel consumed to generate that one unit of energy consumed on-site. To achieve this equivalency, EPA uses source energy.

Using Median Site and Source Energy Use Intensity (EUI)

The national median source EUI is a recommended benchmark metric for all buildings. The median value is the middle of the national population – half of the buildings use more energy, half use less energy. The median works better than the mean (arithmetic average) for comparing relative energy performance because it more accurately reflects the mid-point of energy use for most property types and removes the effect of high-value outliers that may skew the data.

Sources:
Natural Resources Canada NRCan
https://www.energystar.gov/buildings/

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Energy Facts

Energy Facts

Energy, in physics, the capacity for doing work. It may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or other various forms. There are, moreover, heat and work—i.e., energy in the process of transfer from one body to another. After it has been transferred, energy is always designated according to its nature. Hence, heat transferred may become thermal energy, while work is done may manifest itself in the form of mechanical energy.
About 5,000 years ago, the energy people consumed for their survival averaged about 12,000 kilocalories per person each day. In AD 1400, each person was consuming about twice as much energy (26,000 kilocalories). After the Industrial Revolution, the demand almost tripled to an average of 77,000 kilocalories per person in 1875. By 1975, it had tripled again to 230,000 kilocalories per person.
Energy is critically important to the Canadian economy as Canada is among the largest energy producers and the highest per-capita energy consumers in the world. Our nation’s prosperity and competitiveness are tied to achieving sustainable economic growth and a successful transition to a lower carbon future. Canada is committed to creating a cleaner environment for future generations by investing in clean technologies and increasing energy efficiency.
A wide variety of factors have an influence on the level of GHG emissions in Canada. In Canada, and around the world, almost 80% of GHG emissions from human activities come from energy consuming activities such as transportation, energy and electricity production, heating and cooling of buildings, the operation of appliances and equipment, production of goods, and the provision of services.
In general, Canadians use more energy because of our extreme temperatures, large land mass, and dispersed population.

SOURCES:
Natural Resources Canada NRCan
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Internet Article by By Karin Lehnardt, Senior Writer 2017

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What is the energy use intensity (EUI)? "Energy Performance Metrics"

Energy use intensity, or EUI. Primarily, the EUI expresses a building’s energy use as a function of its size or other characteristics. EUI is expressed as energy per square foot per year. It’s calculated by dividing the total energy consumed by the building in one year (measured in kBtu or GJ) by the entire gross floor area of the building. Generally, a low EUI signifies good energy performance. However, individual property types will always use more energy than others. For example, an elementary school uses relatively little power compared to a hospital.

In the past two decades, our industry has seen a significant shift toward a focus on energy efficiency and sustainability. To accurately gauge whether this shift has had a quantifiable impact, terms such as Energy Use Intensity (EUI), Power Use Effectiveness (PUE), and Gallons/Day have become commonplace. These simplified metrics are useful tools in tracking the performance of a building, but they have limits. For example, an airport may be a hub for popular airlines and see higher traffic
than a similarly-sized airport on the other side of the city. The resulting higher energy use per square foot would be a mark of failure rather than a success of building performance. But that’s not accurate. To be truly useful, we need to rethink our metrics, not to shift the goal posts, but to more accurately measure performance.

Performance metrics are vital in determining how efficiently or effectively a facility is operating or is designed to work. By compiling measured energy, water, and waste effluent data into databases such as ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, benchmarks can be established for various building types and buildings in different climates. Benchmarks are then used as starting points in designing new facilities or investigating energy cost savings opportunities in existing buildings.

Many individuals and groups are involved with a building over its lifetime, and all have different interests in and requirements for the construction. Although these interests differ, the value of using metrics reflects a small number of driving factors: Controlling energy costs and energy consumption, Minimizing environmental impacts,  Enhancing the image through marketing, and  Improving load forecasting, energy management, and reliability.

Sources:
Performance Metrics Tiers | Department of Energy. https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/performance-metrics-tiers
Energy Conservation Policy: sustainNU - Northwestern .... https://www.northwestern.edu/sustainability/program-areas/built-environment/energy-conservation.html
What is the energy use intensity (EUI)? | ENERGY STAR .... https://www.energystar.gov/buildings/facility-owners-and-managers/existing-buildings/use-portfolio-manager/understand-metrics/what-energy
New Thinking About Building Performance Energy Metrics .... https://www.glumac.com/new-thinking-performance-metrics/

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ESMS Consulting Services

ESMS Consulting Services

ESMS Consulting (Energy Saving and Management Services)  -   is a new service company (sole proprietorship) specializes in providing residential and commercial sectors with solutions of energy efficient products, and energy cost-saving principles and techniques. Our mission is to achieve sustainable and cost-effective solutions for our clients. We provide independent strategic advice and technical support in implementation and improvements to commercial, industrial and institutional clients seeking to optimize their energy use.

Our federal government, as well as all provincial governments, offers energy improvements support in the form of non-repayable grants, favorable loans, and tax credits. While Ontario and Quebec have the most significant number of programs available, all provinces announce new plans frequently to support their regional priorities and compete with the other regions.

Natural Resources Canada NRCan makes it available for everyone to improve and maximize energy efficiency, reduce cost, and save money for individuals and organizations.

Energy management is based on a structured approach that can be used to manage energy in existing buildings. This approach integrates a variety of elements that are traditionally overlooked. It focuses on more than just investing in technological changes such as retrofits to improve energy performance and recognizes the significant impact that both the culture of an organization and the behavior of building occupants have on overall energy use.

Energy management solutions, in brief, means to track energy utilization trends in your buildings, helping you increase operational efficiencies. Monitor and manage consumption in real-time and get alerts notifying you of changes, so you can proactively make adjustments and improve your bottom line.

We offer you free Consultancy, and you will have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Act now, our team will make it easy for you to discover our government rebates and taxes incentivizes which will make all the energy improvements within your hands. Our mutual co-operation and our powerful solutions are all that you need to succeed, improve your building performance, qualify for significant certificates like ENERGY STAR, BOMA, LEED, ...and save money. You will never worry or overpay again.

Happy Canada Day. God blesses Canada - July 1, 2018.

Sources: 
Natural Resources Canada NRCan.

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