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Energy-efficiency service and product
providers are partnering with the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency through ENERGY STAR Build-
ings"' and Green Lights® to promote
strategic energy management.
ENERGY STAR Buildings Allies
encourage their customers to make
profitable, energy-saving investments
in their facilities—investments that
not only reduce energy costs by 30
percent or more, but also yield addi-
tional benefits, such as improved
occupant comfort and increased
property values.
More than 900 contractors, consul-
tants, manufacturers, distributors,
utilities, financiers, architects, and
energy services companies across the
country have created a network of
leaders in the energy-efficiency indus-
try dedicated to increasing awareness
about the value of comprehensive
upgrades to maximize energy savings.
Through the Partnership, Allies add
value to their services and products
by introducing clients to ENERGY
STAR Buildings. By encouraging cus-
tomers to join the Partnership, Allies
can guide them to a wealth of techni-
cal information, workshop and train-
ing opportunities, analytical software,
and communications assistance. Allies
also increase visibility among indus-
try peers and in the energy market-
place due to their voluntary
relationships with EPA.
As part of their commitment, Allies
assist participants with the planning,
implementation, and reporting of
upgrades. Allies offer their services,
products, and knowledge as resources
to realize the greatest energy-savings
and pollution-prevention results. By
working together, Partners and Allies
can successfully complete whole
building upgrades at a profit.
Allies also showcase the ENERGY STAR
Buildings strategy in their own facili-
ties. Allies commit to performing
upgrades in conditioned facilities that
they own or for which they have
long-term leases. Similar to other par-
ticipants in the Partnership, Allies
upgrade 60 percent of the square
footage where they can achieve a 20
percent rate of return or more. As a
result, Allies better understand the
integrated approach to upgrades and
can show customers how their ser-
vices and/or products can be applied
during the upgrade process.
To recognize outstanding Allies, EPA
sponsored the 1998 Ally Challenge, a
friendly competition between Allies
which introduced new organizations
to the cost-effective ENERGY STAR
Buildings strategy while building busi-
ness for Allies. Competition in last
year's Challenge remained close with
only a few points separating the top
performers. Challenge leaders included
CEC Consultants, Johnson Controls
Incorporated, Trane Worldwide
Applied Systems Group, and Viron
Energy Services. Due to the positive
response to last year's event, EPA plans
to hold another challenge in 1999.
For more information about ENERGY
STAR Buildings and Green Lights
Allies or to view a complete list of Ally
Challenge winners, access the Ally Ser-
vices and Products (ASAP) Directory
Web site at www.epa.gov/asap or call
the toll-free ENERGY STAR Hotline at
1-888-STARYES (1-888-782-7937).
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Verle A. Williams and
Associates and the
San Diego Unified
School District
trict money that would otherwise
have been wasted."
The San Diego School District has
already realized a cumulative reduc-
tion in electricity use of more than 26
million kWhs, equaling the preven-
tion of 39 million pounds of carbon
dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen
oxide emissions.
CEC Consultants,
Inc. and Johnson
and Johnson
j With the help of ENERGY
. i STAR Buildings Ally, Verle
A. Williams and Associates (VAWA),
the San Diego Unified School District
has realized over $2 million in energy
cost-savings through comprehensive
energy-efficiency upgrades. VAWA, a
San Diego-based energy engineering
services company specializing in
energy retrofit feasibility studies,
HVAC retrofit and expansion, utility
cost savings monitoring, and central
plant master planning and design,
performed upgrades to the school dis-
trict's lighting and heating ventilation
and cooling (HVAC) systems. In
addition, VAWA developed the
upgrade master plan and is managing
this ongoing project that, when com-
pleted, is expected to save the district
$5.5 million in annual utility and
maintenance costs.
VAWA has already completed lighting
upgrades, replacing Tl2 fixtures with
T8 lamps in classrooms and installing
high bay, bi-level metal halides in gym-
nasiums. HVAC upgrades included
installing variable speed drives; high-
efficient, custom-built air conditioning
systems; and new cooling towers and
boilers. In order to maximize the effec-
tiveness of the new technology, VAWA
installed an energy management system
in the school district to control lighting
and HVAC systems throughout the
school day, shutting the systems off
when facility areas are unoccupied.
Craig Colburn, Director of Marketing
at VAWA noted, "We credit the dis-
trict for showing a commitment to
energy efficiency and for showing
great foresight by planning compre-
hensive energy-efficient upgrades.
These upgrades will improve the qual-
ity of the environment in the schools
and save the San Diego School Dis-
When CEC Consul-
tants, Inc. teamed up with Ortho
Clinical Diagnostics, a division of
Johnson and Johnson, to perform a
comprehensive energy audit, the envi-
ronment benefited.
CEC, an engineering consulting firm
servicing large industrial and commer-
cial institutions, began the audit
process by developing a 194-item
checklist representing the five stages of
ENERGY STAR Buildings. CEC's con-
sultants then met with Ortho's facility
managers and surveyed the division's
fourteen buildings to determine the
number of upgrades completed and if
additional upgrades were needed.
Lastly, CEC presented their findings
in five binders, organized according to
the five stages of ENERGY STAR Build-
ings. These binders contained an
introduction, summary, overview of
the items assessed, detailed break-
downs of each item, and an appendix
with supporting calculations. As a
result of CEC's recommendations,
Ortho Diagnostics implemented
energy-efficiency measures in its Rari-
tan, NJ facilities which will reduce the
company's energy waste and help pre-
vent the release of air pollutants.
A leader in using innovative tools and
techniques to promote the ENERGY
STAR Buildings Partnership, CEC has
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BUILDINGS
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placed an ENERGY STAR Buildings-
themed advertisement on the exteriors
of downtown Cleveland buses; imple-
mented a direct mail campaign with
postcards featuring an ENERGY STAR
Buildings message; and held informa-
tional breakfast workshops to intro-
duce potential Allies and Partners to
the Partnership. These promotions
earned the company the "Gold Level"
distinction of being the leading small
business competitor in the Ally Chal-
lenge by recruiting five new partici-
pants into the Partnership.
installed variable speed drives on all
air handling units in its facility. The
new speed drives, furnished by the
Ally, increased the efficiency of the air
handling system and increased occu-
pant comfort by eliminating the
whistling sound caused by the restric-
tion of air flow from variable air vol-
ume systems.
In addition to creating a more com-
fortable working environment, the
new variable speed drives contributed
to Mobil's bottom line, saving the
company approximately $19,000 per
year in energy costs—a 36.3percent
cost reduction. Motector also was able
to help Mobil achieve a 21 percent
internal rate of return on the com-
pany's Stage IV upgrade investments.
Motector Systems, Inc.
and Mobil Corporation
Priding itself on developing
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IVS©S3Il good working relationships
with Partners, Motector Systems, Inc.
recently teamed up with Mobil Cor-
poration to help evaluate and imple-
ment Stage IV of ENERGY STAR
Buildings upgrade strategy to the cor-
poration's Reston, VA facilities.
Specifically, Motector, a manufacturer
of fan system components and an air
handling consulting firm, was tasked
with designing a plan to improve the
energy efficiency of the facilities' air
handling units.
Based on Motector's recommenda-
tions, and supported by data from
EPA's QuikFan software, Mobil
EUA Cogenex
and the
Colorado Army
National Guard
With mandates through
the Federal Energy Policy Act requir-
ing substantial cuts in energy con-
sumption, the Colorado Army
National Guard's facilities manage-
ment team was anxious to show
progress in reducing energy costs to
its National Guard superiors and
EPA. After issuing a standard RFP
(request for proposal), the National
Guard chose EUA Cogenex, a perfor-
mance contracting company with the
financial knowledge and engineering
expertise to implement facility
improvements and increase energy
savings.
Working together, EUA Cogenex and
the National Guard facilities manage-
ment team designed a comprehensive
energy improvement plan using the .
ENERGY STAR Buildings upgrade
approach. The Ally installed an
energy management control system to
help implement time-of-day equip-
ment control, automated supply air
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temperature resetting, and boiler
water loop control improvements.
EUA Cogenex upgraded lighting fix-
tures with T8 lamps and electronic
rapid start ballasts. The projects were
financed on a guaranteed savings/lease
contract with rebate assistance from
the demand-side management efforts
of Public Service of Colorado.
Now complete, the Colorado Army
National Guard's energy-efficiency
upgrades are already outperforming
the 442,000 kWh energy savings and
$26,200 cost savings predicted annu-
ally. Moreover, Guard members have
commented on the increased building
comfort attributed to the accuracy
and real-time precision of the new
energy management control system.
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Viron Energy
Services and Hope
School District
/ When Hope School
District in Hope,
Arkansas was looking for a solution to
its HVAC maintenance needs, Viron
Energy Services was ready to help. An
engineering-based energy services
company specializing in performance
contracting, Viron recruited the
school district into the ENERGY STAR
Buildings and Green Lights Partner-
ship and signed a performance con-
tract to improve the quality and
efficacy of the district's lighting and
HVAC systems.
Viron's work with the school district
began with a comprehensive lighting
upgrade—replacing T12 lamps with
more efficient T8s and electronic bal-
lasts, installing specular reflectors to
maximize light levels, relamping mer-
cury vapor lamps in gymnasiums with
metal halides, and replacing incandes-
cent exit signs with LED signs. These
lighting upgrades were so successful,
they provided enough cost savings to
finance the HVAC upgrade program.
Next, Viron recommended the instal-
lation of an energy management sys-
tem to prevent energy waste while
school is not in session. The company
also replaced 71 of the district's
rooftop HVAC units with energy-effi-
cient technologies, installed a new
steam boiler, and upgraded the high
school auditorium with four five-ton
HVAC packages.
The school district's lighting and
HVAC upgrades are projected to save
over $126,500 annually which will
make more funds available for other
educational services. Dr. Carlos Price,
Superintendent of the Hope School
District credits Viron Services with
helping the district "develop a long
range solution to [its energy] prob-
lems."
Thanks to its ENERGY STAR Buildings
promotion efforts, Viron achieved
"Silver Level" status in the Ally Chal-
lenge by recruiting three new partici-
pants into the Partnership.
Seimens Building
Technologies, Landis
Division and Allegheny
University Hospitals -
Allegheny Valley
Allegheny University Hospitals -
Allegheny Valley selected ENERGY
STAR Buildings Ally Seimens Building
Technologies, an energy management
and performance solutions firm, to
identify and implement energy-effi-
ciency improvements throughout the
hospital.
After signing a five-year performance
contract, the Landis division retrofit-
ted more than 6,000 lighting fixtures
with T8 lamps and electronic ballasts
and performed a building tune-up to
increase the facility's energy efficiency.
These measures greatly reduced the
load on the HVAC systems as a
whole, helping the hospital upgrade
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motors, air handling systems, and the heating
and cooling plants with the capital investment
dollars derived from energy savings.
The Landis division forecasts a 35 percent
reduction in electrical bills and a 23 percent
reduction in gas bills for the Allegheny Univer-
sity Hospitals. The Ally also anticipates a 4.7
million kWh electricity reduction and 23,210
MCF gas reduction as a result of the upgrades,
thus eliminating the emissions of 6.8 million
pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Noted Michael Gross, Director of Support Ser-
vices for Allegheny University Hospitals, "With
the tremendous economic pressures on health-
care facilities, facility managers must do what-
ever possible to reduce costs, without sacrificing
quality of service. Seimens Building Technolo-
gies provides just that vehicle. Our partnership
with Seimens Building Technologies has been
very positive with significant results in lowering
energy consumption as well as operating costs."
TKANE
The Trane Company,
Georgia Power, and
Cox Newspapers
To help upgrade its facilities
with energy-efficient tech-
nologies, Cox Newspapers,
the publisher of the Atlanta Journal and Consti-
tution, enlisted the services of ENERGY STAR
Buildings Allies, The Trane Company and Geor-
gia Power.
Since Cox Newspapers had :
already implemented lighting
retrofits and initial building
tune-ups in its facilities, Trane,
a worldwide manufacturer of
applied air conditioning and
systems, began by upgrading
fan systems to variable speed
drives. As the upgrade efforts
progressed, the Ally started to
look for ways to make the
cooling system more energy
efficient. To do this, Trane
joined forces with the local
utility company, Georgia
Power, and measured chiller capacity require-
ments. Based on the information gathered,
Georgia Power recommended incorporating a
high-efficiency cooling design and purchasing
one of Trane's new energy-efficient electric
chillers. Additionally, Georgia Power offered
Cox a new time-of-day rate contract to promote
the idea of a more efficient central cooling plant.
The Trane Company received an additional $1.5
million worth of business from Cox to assist
with more upgrades, and Georgia Power
retained an important customer. Cox also reaped
substantial benefits from the upgrades. The
company saved about $400,000 due to Trane's
and Georgia Power's team efforts.
Named the 1998 ENERGY STAR Buildings Ally of
the Year by EPA, The Trane Company is deeply
committed to marketing the benefits of the Part-
nership and energy efficiency. The company
developed an 830 square foot, self-contained
mobile showcase to promote energy efficiency in
its products to designers, installers, and facility
owners/operators throughout the U.S. and
Canada over the next two years. The exhibit is
Trane's primary means of introducing new prod-
ucts and technologies and is projected to be vis-
ited by more than 25,000 key industry
personnel.
Trane earned "Silver Level" distinction in the
large companies category of the Ally Challenge
by recruiting five new Partners.
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RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY
1999 ENERGY STAR Awards Ceremony
On Wednesday, April 14, 1999, EPA
will present the prestigious ENERGY
STAR Awards to industry leaders who
have combined strategic energy man-
agement with smart business decision-
making. The 1999 ENERGY STAR
Awards Ceremony will honor exem-
plary organizations in the ENERGY
STAR Buildings and Green Lights
Partnership, and the ENERGY STAR
Homes, ENERGY STAR Office Equip-
ment, ENERGY STAR Appliance, and
the ENERGY STAR Exit Sign Programs.
The event will be held at the Wash-
ington Hilton in Washington, D.C.
The ENERGY STAR Awards recognize
businesses and organizations nation-
wide whose energy-efficiency accom-
plishments have helped to prevent
global climate change. Award recipi-
ents serve as models to inspire others
to apply energy-efficient practices in
homes, businesses, and commercial
buildings to reduce energy demand,
save money, and protect the environ-
ment. Through their voluntary part-
nerships with EPA, these outstanding
participants are changing the way we
do business, how we live, and the
technologies we can purchase.
Please join us on April 14, 1999
to commemorate the 1999 ENERGY
STAR Awards winners. Ceremony
invitations are scheduled to be
mailed in mid-February. Call
your account manager or the
toll-free ENERGY STAR Hotline at
1-888-STARYES (1-888-782-7937)
for more information.
SHOWCASING ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Earth Day Challenge 1999
EPA invites ENERGY STAR Buildings and
Green Lights participants and prospective
participants to celebrate their environmental
achievements by participating in Earth Day
Challenge 1999. Founded by Senator Gay-
lord Nelson (WI) on April 22, 1970, Earth
Day serves as reminder to all about the
importance of environmental education and
action to protect the Earth's natural
resources.
To enter, Challengers must satisfy one or
more of these important goals:
• Fulfill the Green Lights Partnership com-
mitment;
• Join ENERGY STAR Buildings;
» Submit baseline energy data for each facility;
• Provide EPA with initial annual facility
data for each facility.
Reaching one or more of these goals will earn
participants Earth Day rewards, including
Earth Day communications materials to use
during April (Earth Month), and a feature in
the ENERGY STAR Buildings and Green Lights
Bulletin. The more goals participants achieve,
the more rewards they will receive.
The Challenge is currently underway. To be
eligible, reports, and MOUs must be submit-
ted by March 15. All signed MOUs and
energy/utility data submitted since August 15,
1998 will count toward Challenge goals.
To participate, please call the ENERGY STAR
Buildings Hotline at 1-888-STARYES
(1-888-782-7937).
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HELPING TO PROTECT YOUR BOTTOM LINE
Electric Utility Deregulation
Myths and Realities
The electric utility industry is cur-
rently undergoing major restructur-
ing. Once strictly regulated, this
industry is transitioning into a dereg-.
ulated marketplace featuring competi-
tive wholesale electric and retail
electric rates. Understanding the com-
plex issues and common mispercep-
tions concerning deregulation can
help businesses and other organiza-
tions make informed decisions when
purchasing power.
tion, power generators have become
competitors and cannot be relied on
in the same way to manage the grid.
As a result, states are compelled to
take over the electric grid to ensure
there will always be enough electricity
generation to prevent blackouts from
occurring.
Myth 2
Myth 1
Deregulation means
privatization of the nation's
electric system.
FACT: Deregulation of the utility
industry actually refers to the genera-
tion of electricity. Power transmission
and distribution will remain regu-
lated. In fact, deregulation means
that state governments now must
take responsibility for maintaining
the nation's power transmission grid,
the network of power lines linking
electricity producers to distribution
systems delivering electricity to com-
mercial, industrial, and residential
Deregulation means lower
electric rates for everyone.
FACT: Right now, electric rates are
too complex and volatile to predict
lower overall rates for everyone. Elec-
tric rates are expected to vary depend-
ing on the time of day power is
purchased. Although rates are lower-
ing for off-peak power users and
power supplied during non-peaking
days, the nature of a free supply and
demand electric market is such that,
when demand is suddenly larger than
supply, rates will spike as high as the
market will bear. Rate spiking already
occurred this summer in the Midwest.
Also, many states intend to add a new
surcharge on electric bills to cover the
cost of managing the power grid.
customers. Many states are setting up
departments to oversee the operation r\J WTM . ~S
and health of the power grid. ••'
In the deregulated past, utility compa-
nies did not compete for electricity
customers and, therefore, worked
together to coordinate the electric
grid. If one utility did not have
enough power generation to sustain
its grid, the company could rely on
help from neighboring utilities to
bring generation on in time to keep
up the energy supply. Under deregula-
Utilities are not in favor of
deregulation.
FACT! In a deregulated marketplace,
electricity providers are free to com-
pete across state and regional bound-
aries. Utilities producing power in
one state are allowed to sell that
power in another. Because average
electricity rates can vary by more than
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10 cents per kilowatt hour across the
country, many utilities in states with
lower rates are looking forward to
competing in higher rate markets.
Myth 6
Myth 4
Because of deregulation I will
be able to choose my energy
supplier within the year.
FACT: Deregulation is being imple-
mented on a state-by-state basis. So,
when and how you will be able to
choose your energy supplier will
depend on your state's deregulation
plan. Thus far, 14 states are imple-
menting retail electric competition
including Arizona, California, Illinois,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, and Vermont. An addi-
tional 25 states are expected to dereg-
ulate between the years of 2002 to
2005. In the remaining states, legisla-
tures and public utility commissions
are debating electricity deregulation
alternatives.
Myth5
Deregulation will give me total
control of which company will
get my electricity business.
FACT! If your state deregulates, you
will only be able to choose the utility
company generating electricity. Elec-
tricity transmission and distribution
will continue to be regulated. This
means that in a given geographic area
only one distribution utility will be
able to connect you to the power grid.
Similar to your telephone and long-
distance calling bills, you will con-
tinue to receive an electric bill from
the distribution utility authorized to
service your area and charges from the
electricity generation company you
choose will appear on the bill.
Increasing competition brought
on by deregulation means that
there will always be enough
generation to meet the market
needs.
FACT: In the short-term, deregula-
tion is expected to produce less relia-
bility and greater complexity in
powering purchasing. Previously, large
electricity margins were maintained
between generation quantity and
demand. When peaking problems
occurred, there was always enough
generation in the country to supply
the grid. However, open electric gen-
erating market sentiments are not
leaning toward maintaining these
margins. Since markets are reactive in
nature, it will take time for the elec-
tric generation market to find the
right balance of generation to keep
the grid adequately fulfilled. As a
result, it is expected that we will move
through a transition where power
blackouts are much more common-
place.
Myth 7
Since deregulation will likely
lower electric rates for
everyone, renewable energy
will never be profitable.
FACT: The future of renewable
energy is much brighter because of
expected rate spiking. Companies
affected by the recent power crisis in
the Midwest know that the cost of
energy is more than the price on the
electric bill. It also includes the costs
of productivity loss due to power out-
ages and the impact on the bottom
line from rate fluctuations. A renew-
able energy system can help compa-
nies reduce or remove energy
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BUILDINGS
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purchases during utility peak power
times and maintain operations during
outages.
MythS
Since deregulation will bring
electricity prices down, energy
efficiency is not as important.
FACT! Energy efficiency will con-
tinue to be an important issue as
deregulation efforts progress. Many
utilities will implement pricing plans
in which customers will be charged
different rates at different times. Dur-
ing peak demand times, prices will
likely be higher. Electricity customers
with better energy management plans
and energy-efficiency capabilities w 11
be able to take advantage of these
pricing plans by lowering their
demand when prices are higher. Cus-
tomers that are not familiar with their
energy consumption profiles and have
not incorporated energy-efficiency
technologies will be more vulnerable
to high peak energy costs.
ENERGY STAR Buildings and Green
Lights can help keep your organiza-
tion out of the dark on deregulation.
Using the Partnership's comprehensive
approach to upgrades, you can evalu-
ate your organization's energy needs
to receive the greatest benefits possi-
ble in the new energy marketplace.
PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP
Hartsfield Atlanta Airport
Hartsfield Atlanta Airport, the second
largest passenger airport in the world,
has contributed to air pollution
prevention through its Green
Lights commitment. Now, visi-
tors to the airport will find out
about Hartsfield's environmental
leadership by way of lighted dio-
rama signs placed throughout
heavy traffic areas in the air-
port.
Created in collaboration with
EPA, the dioramas carry the
message, "Hartsfield Atlanta
Airport is Plugged Into Pollu-
tion Prevention". The diora-
mas describe Hartsfield's
environmental accomplishments
through energy efficiency and feature
EPA's "PLUG" graphic, which over
the past two years has been seen
across the country in a number of
national magazines.
Hartsfield's promotion demonstrates
how Partners can creatively communi-
cate their commitment to pollution
prevention. Each Partner has unique
opportunities to share its efforts,
whether through a newsletter, a web
site, or billboards. Partners can pro-
mote their achievements and inform
the public about important energy-
efficiency issues.
For more information about how EPA
can help your organization promote
its environmental leadership, please
call the ENERGY STAR Hotline at
1-888-STARYES (1-888-782-7937).
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ONLINE ACCESS TO THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY INDUSTRY
Ally Services and Products (ASAP) Directory
The latest news and information
about the energy-efficiency industry is
just a mouse click away. The Ally Ser-
vices and Products (ASAP) Directory
is an Internet-based listing of ENERGY
STAR Buildings and Green Lights
Allies. Launched in October 1997,
EPA developed this Web site
(www.epa.gov/asap) to help Partners
quickly identify companies providing
specific products and services in order
to facilitate energy-efficiency
upgrades.
Updated regularly, the ASAP Direc-
tory features an advanced search
engine to locate Allies based on com-
pany name, products offered, services
provided, and/or headquarter loca-
tions. In addition, users can conduct
a keyword search from a list of prod-
ucts and services to find Ally
providers or more specific technolo-
gies. The ASAP Directory contains
links directly from ASAP to Ally
World Wide Web sites and users have
the option of sending an e-mail
request for additional information to
Ally representatives.
EPA recently unveiled new features on
the ASAP Web site. In addition to a
calendar of events, the Directory now
provides detailed case studies of
ENERGY STAR Buildings and Green
Lights Allies and Partners working
together to complete energy-efficiency
projects, updates on issues affecting
the energy industry, such as deregula-
tion and indoor air quality, Ally Chal-
lenge results, running total of pollution
prevented by ENERGY STAR Buildings
and Green Lights participants,
monthly energy-saving tips, and links
to other energy-related Web sites.
Get the information you need today to
complete your organization's energy-
efficiency upgrades, visit the Ally Ser-
vices and Products (ASAP) Directory
on the Web at www.epa.gov/asap.
REPORTING MADE EASY
New, Simplified Green Lights Reporting Form
Green Lights participants can look
forward to a new, much-abbreviated
format for reporting their lighting
upgrades. Following a phone survey
conducted during the summer 1997,
EPA confirmed that reported square
footage of lighting upgrades had been
under-represented by as much as 30
percent. The survey revealed that
the primary reason for the discrep-
ancy was the reporting process.
Based upon requests from several
survey participants and implementa-
tion directors, EPA reduced the
form from a page of hardware infor-
mation and calculations to a simple
postcard featuring six questions.
Officially launched in September
1998, the new report format
should make it easier for Green
Lights participants to satisfy their
annual reporting responsibilities.
With the help of a statistical model
developed using existing data, the
form removes the job of calculating
energy and cost savings from partic-
ipants. In addition, EPA will peri-
odically contact a small percentage
of participants for additional infor-
mation regarding equipment
upgrades to further understand the
impact of Green Lights on the mar-
ket and to keep the model up to
date. EPA plans to conduct a fol-
low-up survey during the spring of
1999 to receive feedback on the
new format.
The new Green Lights Implementa-
tion Reports are currently distrib-
uted through monthly anniversary
letters sent out to participants. The
forms also can be ordered by con-
tacting your account manager or
calling the ENERGY STAR Hotline at
1-888-STARYES (1-888-782-7937).
ENERGY STAR Buildings & Green Lights Update Winter 1999
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CORRECTION: An article in the Fall 1998 issue
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