Tools and information

Benchmarking your buildings' energy performance is a key first step to understanding and reducing your energy consumption and carbon footprint. All buildings can benefit from assessing their energy performance, water efficiency, and carbon emissions using ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.

The following resources will provide you with additional information to help you to customize and follow an energy benchmarking road map to launch you on your way.

• Improve Your Building’s Energy Performance: Energy Benchmarking Primer [PDF – 2.43 MB] NEW
• ecoENERGY Efficiency for Buildings: Benchmarking Tools [PDF - 1.1MB] fact sheet
• Training resources
• Building Energy Benchmarking: Recommendations and Work Outline for a System in Canada [PDF – 176KB]
• Case studies: Canadian Circle of Champions
• Benchmarking - Frequently Asked Questions
• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Target Finder tool

Articles

• Natural Resources Canada articles:
  • Energy saving opportunities abound in the food retail sector
  • Energy benchmarking makes difference at Nova Scotia’s Capital Health Authority savings
  • City of Burlington arena energy competition achieves big savings
  • ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager: spotlight on the City of Richmond
  • New features recently added to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
  • ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager in Canada: A year in review
  • How clean is your data? Making the most of ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
  • Calling all schools: Improve your energy grade with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
  • Why you don’t want to ignore ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager for buildings
  • Proven success: Energy benchmarking in hospitals
  • NRCan buildings pilot project test drives ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
• External articles:
  • Data Trends: Benchmarking and Energy Savings, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Data Trends: Energy Use Benchmarking, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • ENERGY STAR Snapshot : Measuring Progress in the Commercial and Industrial Buildings Sector (Spring 2013) [PDF – 306 KB] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • 8 Energy Benchmarking Hurdles (and How to Get Over Them) (Buildings magazine)