Service & Product Providers

Partnership Advantages

• Credibility:
  Link your business to a powerful brand. Use the ENERGY STAR logos on marketing materials to promote your partnership.

• Visibility:
  Become listed on the Web-based ENERGY STAR Service and Product Provider Directory.

• A prequalified list of customers:
  Gain access to a network of organizations pursuing energy performance upgrades.

• Access to tools that can help you:

  • Identify projects and set performance goals by rating the energy performance of buildings using EPA's energy performance rating system.
  • Justify projects in powerful financial terms by using our financial value tools like QuikScope and the Financial Value Calculator.
  • Set energy performance goals for new buildings by using Target Finder for new building design.
  • Demonstrate success by applying for the ENERGY STAR label for buildings.

• Recognition:
  Take advantage of opportunities to be recognized through success stories, building profiles, articles, press releases, website listings, and ENERGY STAR Awards.

• Partner Support:
  To help you get the most out of your partnership with ENERGY STAR.

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Tools

• Energy Performance Rating System

  • Portfolio Manager: identifies opportunities with your customers by rating and comparing the energy performance of commercial buildings.

  • Host the national Energy Performance Rating System: EPA now offers companies that provide energy information products and services an opportunity to bring our national Energy Performance Rating System and ENERGY STAR label directly to their customers through their own tools.

    Participation in the pilot for this initiative is now closed to new hosts. EPA will open participation to interested energy information service providers when the program is formally launched by mid-year 2005.

• Financial Value Calculator - helps you make the best financial case with corporate executives on the financial value of improved energy performance.

• QuikScope - assesses the costs and benefits of energy performance improvements for commercial real estate.

• Labeled Building Profiles - create stories which help you communicate the success of facilities that have received the ENERGY STAR.

• Delta Score Estimator - illustrates the relationship between points moved on the energy performance rating scale and the percent of energy saved in a building.

• Target Finder - helps set an energy performance target for new design and compare the estimated energy consumption with the established target.

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Resources

• New Building Design - a strategic management checklist that outlines the necessary steps for your team to achieve its energy goals. The Guidance will help you set an energy performance goal and secure financial and management support to carry out your plan.

• ENERGY STAR Partner List - gain access to a network of organizations pursuing energy performance upgrades.

• Service and Product Provider Directory - get listed on the ENERGY STAR Service and Product Provider Directory to increase your credibility and visibility.

• Professional Engineer (PE) Directory - search for PEs on the ENERGY STAR Web site that can perform verifications for buildings that have applied for the ENERGY STAR label.

• Buildings Manual - access this Web-based technical resource manual that provides a comprehensive and strategic approach to upgrades in new and existing facilities.

• Building Profiles - highlight your organization on this Web site through stories discussing how you applied tools and resources to help your clients earn the ENERGY STAR.

• Marketing Materials - use these materials to educate your employees, customers, and potential clients about the benefits of ENERGY STAR.

• Partner Logos and Guidelines - see examples of how to use these logos to show your participation in ENERGY STAR and to differentiate your business from others in the market.

• Labeled products - learn about energy-efficient products that can help reduce the energy consumption in commercial and residential applications.

• Small Business information - obtain resources to help increase the energy performance of non-governmental facilities of 100,000-square feet or less.

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