Service and Product Providers:
Build Your Business with ENERGY STAR®
Let ENERGY STAR Be Your Market Advantage
Look to ENERGY STAR to help you bring value to your customers and more sales to your organization.
Service and Product Providers (SPPs) are integral in helping commercial and industrial buildings use energy more efficiently.
Partnering with ENERGY STAR provides you with access to free tools and resources to help you devise and implement energy-
efficient strategies that are right for your customers:
> Use the ENERGY STAR Brand to Enhance Your Credibility: Use the nationally recognized ENERGY STAR Partner logo on your
promotional materials to symbolize your commitment to delivering energy efficiency and financial savings to customers.
Help customers build their reputation as environmental and social leaders through work with an ENERGY STAR SPP Partner.
> Increase Visibility: As a partner, your organization will be listed in the online ENERGY STAR SPP Directory, searchable by
service, product, location, and past achievements. The Directory is one of the most viewed pages in the ENERGY STAR
Web site. Benefit from the more than 27,000 searches conducted annually!
> Gain Access to New Customers: In addition to broadening your potential customer base through the Directory, use the ENERGY STAR
Partner listings to target organizations which have prioritized energy efficiency and seek help in furthering improvements in
energy performance.
> Utilize a Proven Strategy: Use the EPA Guidelines for Energy Management, a framework developed from ENERGY STAR
Partner's successes, to more effectively help your customers reap the benefits of superior energy efficiency.
> Leverage the ENERGY STAR: Help customers earn the ENERGY STAR for their top-performing buildings, which score a
75 or higher in EPA's Energy Performance Rating System
for existing buildings. For new construction, use Target
Finder to set realistic energy performance goals and
demonstrate that a new building is "Designed to Earn the
ENERGY STAR."
Look to ENERGY STAR
Businesses across the economy are saving energy and
experiencing remarkable financial results with the help of
ENERGY STAR. On average, buildings that have earned the
ENERGY STAR use 35 percent less energy and generate
one-third less carbon dioxide than their industry peers.
> Earn Recognition for Your Success in Improving Customers'
Energy Performance: Get featured on the ENERGY STAR Web
site through Success Stories and a listing on the Most Active
SPP Web page. Earn 10-Point Recognition Certificates—awarded to both your organization and your customer for increasing a
building's rating by 10 points or more—and apply for the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award!
Become an ENERGY STAR Service and Product Provider Partner
Join now at http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=join.spp_agree.
To learn more, visit: www.energystar.gov/sppresources, and call the ENERGY STAR Hotline at 1-888-STAR-YES.
ENERGY STAR® is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program helping businesses
and individuals fight global warming through superior energy efficiency.
Learn more atenergystar.gov.
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Learn More about the Tools and Resources ENERGY STAR Can Offer You
Use these tools and resources to strategize and quantify improvements in energy performance of your customers'facilities and to
market your expertise to potential customers.
> EPA's Energy Performance Rating System: Measure and track energy consumption using the free, online Portfolio Manager
tool. Help customers prioritize opportunities for improvement, set performance goals, and benchmark progress by rating a facility
against similar buildings nationwide. Encourage customers'top performing buildings, which earn a 75 or higher, to apply for the
ENERGY STAR.
> Building Manual: Use this Web-based guide to help you plan and implement profitable energy-saving building upgrades. You
can maximize energy savings by sequentially following this comprehensive and strategic approach for improving energy
efficiency in new and existing buildings.
> New Building Design: EPA's Commercial Building Design Guidance offers methods to incorporate energy efficiency
considerations in each step of the design process. Using Target Finder, set tangible, realistic energy performance goals and
receive a rating for the intended energy use in design projects.
Earn the "Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR" recognition for
designs achieving a rating of 75 or higher.
> Financial Evaluation Tools: Access the Financial Value Calculator,
Building Upgrade Value Calculator, and Cash Flow Opportunity
Calculator to quantify and communicate potential financial returns
in persuasive business terms.
> Service and Product Provider Online Directory: Building owners
and managers use this Directory to locate providers of services
and products to improve their energy efficiency. Your listing will
include a company profile, areas of expertise, markets served,
and contact information. Information in the Directory is updated
annually to ensure the most current content and to maximize the
Directory's effectiveness as a business expansion tool.
> Other Online Directories: Utilize the Professional Engineer
Directory to help customers obtain verification for the ENERGY
STAR label application. Locate Special Offers and Rebates for
customers on the ENERGY STAR Web site and purchase or list
ENERGY STAR products at http://www.quantityquotes.net.
> Communications Materials: Promote your partnership status
and demonstrate your expertise in bringing savings and
added value to customers. Find sample press releases, co-
branding posters and more in the Challenge Toolkit. Also use
customizable ENERGY STAR marketing templates to market your
services and products to specific energy users!
Help Your Clients Improve Their Bottom Line through
Energy Efficiency
Healthcare: Each dollar saved by a non-profit healthcare
organization through better energy performance is
equivalent to generating up to $20 in new revenues for
hospitals or $10 for medical offices. That means that
undertaking an energy efficiency project with a net pres-
ent-value cost of $20,000 can deliver up to $400,000 in
new revenues per year over the lifetime of the equipment.
Hospitality: Through a strategic approach to energy
efficiency, a 10 percent reduction in energy consumption
would have the same financial effect as increasing the
average daily room rate (ADR) by $0.62 in limited-service
hotels and $1.35 in full-service hotels.
Office Buildings: Energy use represents one-third of
typical operating budgets of office buildings. If a 300,000
square foot office building pays $2 per square foot in
energy costs, then a 10 percent reduction in energy
consumption is equal to an additional $60,000 of net
operating income. At a 6% capitalization rate, this
results in a potential asset value boost of $1 million!
Supermarkets: Forthe average supermarket, a 10 percent
reduction in energy costs can have the effect of raising net
profit margins by as much as 16 percent and increasing
sales per square foot by $44.
For more information
www.energystar.gov
orcall1.888.STAR.YES
(1.888.782.7937).
United States Environmental
Protection Agency
Office of Air and Radiation
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May 2008
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