Toolkits
Online tools to help you benchmark energy use, perform energy audits, and prepare your property portfolio to enter the carbon markets.
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Benchmarking
US EPA’s Energy Star Portfolio Manager: the most widely used tool for benchmarking energy use. Free and fairly easy to use, there are also tutorials available on their website.
NYSERDA Benchmarking: Energy Smart Schools Program
Focus on Commercial Real Estate Benchmarking Toolkit: a free, customized, user-friendly Web-based tool that enables commercial building owners and managers to rate their buildings' energy efficiency and carbon footprint relative to peer office buildings in New York City, the State, and across the nation.
Retrocommissioning
NYSERDA Retro-commissioning Resources: a systematic process intended not only to optimize how equipment and systems operate, but also to optimize how the systems function together. Includes Technical Assistance and FlexTech Programs, which provide outreach and cost-sharing assistance to building owners and property management firms interested in retro-commissioning.
California Commissioning Collaborative Retrocommissioning Toolkit: assists retrocommissioning practitioners in providing consistent, effective, and cost-efficient services.
Focus on Energy's Commercial Practical Energy Management: a process includes six important steps that each business should follow.
Measurement & Verification
The IPMVP library of documents: not a toolkit per se, but a fundamental resource for information on M & V methods.
"Guidelines for Verifying Existing Building Commissioning Project Savings": created by the California Commissioning Collaborative, using interval data energy models. (PDF)
Carbon Calculators
Cool Climate: a highly simplified tool to calculate footprint based on home energy consumption and transportation by car and plane, created by the Berkeley Institute of the Environment.