Profiles in Leadership
2013 ENERGY STAR® AWARD WINNERS
ENERGYSTAR
CELEBRATING
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Profiles in Leadership: 2013 ENERGY STAR Award Winners
In Memoriam - a Dedication to John Hoffman	1
Overview	2
Table 1. Award Winners by Category	3
Award Winner Profiles	7
Sustained Excellence	7
Energy Efficiency Program Delivery	7
Energy Management	16
New Home Construction	31
Product Manufacturer	33
Retail	36
Service and Product Provider	37
Home Energy Rater	40
Affordable Housing	41
Partner of the Year	43
Energy Efficiency Program Delivery	43
Retail	47
Home Energy Rater	48
Energy Management	49
New Home Construction	56
Product Manufacturer	57
Service and Product Provider	62
Excellence	64
ENERGY STAR Promotion	64
Affordable Housing	66
Energy-Efficient Product Design	66
Retail	67
Special Recognition	68
Appendix: ENERGY STAR Award Criteria	69
Companies and Organizations Mentioned in the Report	77
For additional information, please visit the ENERGY STAR website at www.energystar.gov.

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In Memoriam - a Dedication to John Hoffman
March 2013
John Hoffman began working at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1978. As a young staff member, he
recognized that climate change was a significant environmental risk and began researching ways to address the issue.
Hoffman, along with a core group of dedicated staff members, worked for a number of years to find cost-effective ways
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, computers were taking off in American businesses, becoming
the fastest-growing electricity load in the commercial sector. EPA began to consider the energy consumption of
computers because early models were not designed for energy efficiency.
In 1992, John Hoffman was the director of the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Division. Legend has it that one evening
he walked through EPA offices to see if his co-workers remembered to turn off their computers before they went home
for the day. He was surprised when he discovered that many computers were left on. Hoffman reasoned that if EPA
staff—people who were dedicated to protecting the environment—forgot or found it too inconvenient to power down
their computers, then the situation with the rest of the population was likely far worse. What was needed was a
technical solution, a way to automatically turn off or power down computers when they were not in use. That was when
Hoffman had the idea that would turn into ENERGY STAR, one of the most successful energy-saving programs in history.
After the audit of EPA computers, Hoffman realized that cost-effective, energy-efficient technologies could serve as
successful tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He boldly envisioned using the ingenuity of the marketplace to
overcome barriers to energy efficiency. Introduced in 1992, the ENERGY STAR program promoted the development of
energy-efficient products and encouraged consumers to buy them.
Hoffman saw an opportunity for a partnership between EPA and industry that would be cooperative, rather than
regulatory. This partnership with business would encourage the sharing of data, facilitate the exchange of best practices
and technologies, and help organizations increase their profits through energy-saving opportunities. Partnerships are still
the foundation of the ENERGY STAR program that Hoffman created more than 20 years ago. Today, through partnerships
with 18,000 organizations, the program is helping consumers and businesses make energy-efficient choices where they
live, work, shop, and play.
When Hoffman passed away in September of 2012, he left a remarkable legacy. Since the start of ENERGY STAR,
organizations and people across the country have saved over $230 billion on utility bills and prevented more than
1.8 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. The ENERGY STAR program celebrates more than two decades of
growing success with a label that is recognized by 85% of Americans. What started as a mission to reduce the wasted
power consumption of computers marked the beginning of a journey that is demonstrating to the world superior energy
efficiency can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to a growing economy.
John Hoffman is remembered as a climate protection pioneer, working to combat climate change before it was a topic
of regular discussion. During his career at EPA, Hoffman helped develop several other innovative voluntary programs
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and was a key driver of the 1987 Montreal Protocol—the international treaty to
protect the ozone layer. As we celebrate John Hoffman's achievements, we also look forward to the continuation of
his legacy. We remain committed to helping Americans embrace energy efficiency as one of the easiest, fastest and
most cost-effective solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the environment. We recognize the
essential roles our partnerships have in the fight against climate change, knowing that together we can continue to have
a positive impact on the economy, human health, and the environment over the next 20 years.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proud to
celebrate 20 years of the ENERGY STAR program. Since 1992,
EPA has captured and channeled the ingenuity of the marketplace
through ENERGY STAR and helped millions of Americans and
thousands of businesses save energy, save money, and protect
the climate. With the help of our partners, ENERGY STAR
executes practical and proven solutions for overcoming market
barriers to energy efficiency and enables millions of people and
organizations across America to save energy and reduce the
greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
Each year, EPA honors a select group of organizations that have
made outstanding contributions to protecting the environment
through superior energy efficiency. These ENERGY STAR Award
winners are chosen from a vast network of nearly 20,000
ENERGY STAR partners, and their achievements demonstrate
that improving energy efficiency is one of the fastest and most
effective ways to protect our climate, prevent greenhouse gas
emissions, save money, and create jobs.
The 2013 ENERGY STAR Award winners are an extremely
talented and diverse group of organizations. Their work proves
that tremendous opportunities exist to embrace energy efficiency
and achieve real, sustainable savings. This year we recognize
organizations that set the industry standard in the production and
sale of energy-efficient products and services, as well as those
who have adopted world-class strategies that are eliminating
unnecessary energy waste in the buildings where we live,
work, play, and learn. From the first ENERGY STAR qualified
computer in 1992, the ENERGY STAR logo can now be found on
products in more than 65 different categories, with more than
4.5 billion sold over the past 20 years. More than 1.4 million new
homes and more than 20,000 facilities now proudly carry EPA's
ENERGY STAR certification, use dramatically less energy, and are
responsible for substantially less greenhouse gas emissions than
their peers. With help from the ENERGY STAR program, every
company, every community, and every individual can do their part
to protect the climate today and for future generations.
These diverse organizations are all leaders in their sectors,
demonstrating best practices in energy efficiency. The following
pages document their compelling stories of corporate leadership,
individual commitment, problem solving, innovation, cost-
effective investments, and teamwork that have made saving
energy and money possible in each organization. Their models
of success are a testament to how partnership with the ENERGY
STAR program can help overcome obstacles and take energy
efficiency to a higher level.
The ENERGY STAR Awards are EPA's highest honors for
outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through
superior energy efficiency. Awards are given in several categories
that reflect the depth, breadth, and longevity of each partner's
achievements. Whether a first time Partner of the Year winner, or
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a Sustained Excellence winner for the eighth time, winners are
both small and large organizations from across the country with
distinguished track records of superior performance.
This document profiles the unique accomplishments of each
ENERGY STAR Award winner and demonstrates the strategies
and practices that can be followed by others across the nation to
deliver even greater energy efficiency.
The ENERGY STAR Awards are extremely competitive and the
criteria are rigorous (see Appendix, page 69). As we celebrate the
20th anniversary of the ENERGY STAR program, the 2013 winners
continue the long and honored tradition of excellence. The
ENERGY STAR Award winners chronicled through these pages
work tirelessly to raise the bar and increase awareness of the
benefits of energy efficiency through the ENERGY STAR program.
The ENERGY STAR Awards celebrate energy efficiency and
climate protection accomplishments across the following areas:
Energy Management awarded to organizations for
adopting a continuous energy management strategy across
the organization's entire portfolio of buildings and plants.
New Home Construction: awarded to home builders, home
energy raters, and affordable housing programs for building
and promoting energy-efficient homes.
Energy Efficiency Program Delivery: awarded to states,
utilities, and other organizations for sponsoring energy
efficiency programs to improve the efficiency of products,
homes, and buildings within their community or territory.
Product Manufacturer awarded to companies for
designing and manufacturing high-efficiency products,
including appliances, windows, electronics, and lighting.
Product Retailer: awarded to companies in the retail
sector for extensive commitment to selling ENERGY STAR
certified products.
Service and Product Provider awarded to companies
that offer commercial building energy services and products
for successfully assisting their clients in strategic energy
management and building design.
ENERGY STAR Award winners are helping to transform the
market for energy efficiency products and services across the
residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. EPA applauds
their leadership and looks forward to continued partnership and
progress in the next 20 years.
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Table 1. Award Winners by Category
AEP Texas Central uorpus unristi, ix	1
APS (Arizona Public Service) Phoenix. AZ	1
Austin Energy Austin, TX	8
Constellation Energy/Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) Baltimore. MD	8
Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International Washington, DC	9
CenterPoint Energy Houston, TX	9
ComEd Chicago, IL	10
Focus on Energy Madison, I/VI	10
Energy Efficiency ^PPC - Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center Louisville, KY	11
Program Delivery Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) Uniondale, NY	11
LG&E and KLI Louisville, KY	12
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Trenton, NJ	12
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Albany, NY	13
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Inc. (NEEP) Lexington, MA	13
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) Portland, OH	14
Pacific Gas and Electric Company San Francisco, CA	14
Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) Tulsa, OK	15
Southern California Edison Hosemead, CA	15
3M Company St. Paul, MN	16
ArcelorMittal USA Chicago, IL	16
Bentall Kennedy Toronto, ON	17
CalPortland Company Glendora, CA	17
CBRE, Inc. Los Angeles, CA	18
Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH	18
Colgate-Palmolive Company New York, NY	19
Energy Evergreen Public Schools Vancouver, WA	19
Management Food Lion, Bottom Dollar Food, Harveys and Reid's Salisbury, NC	20
General Motors Detroit, Ml	20
Greshart-Barlow School District Gresham, OR	21
Hanesbrands Inc. Winston Salem, NC	21
HEI Hotels & Resorts Norwalk, CT	22
Mines Houston, TX	22
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. Piano, IX	23
Jones Lang LaSalle Chicago, IL	23
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Kohls Department Stores, Inc. Menomortee Falls, Wl	24
Loudoun County Public Schools Ashburrt, VA	24
Merck Whitehouse Station, NJ	25
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Nm York, NY	25
Nissan North America, Inc. Franklin, TN	26
PepsiCo, Inc. Purchase, NY	26
£nergy	Raytheon Company Waltham, MA	27
Management Saint-Gobain Valley Forge, PA	27
(continued) Sears Holdings Corporation Hoffman Estates, IL	28
Staples, Inc. Framingham, MA	28
The Boeing Company Chicago, IL	29
TIAA-CREF New York, NY	29
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Erlanger, KY	30
TRANSWESTERN Houston, IX	30
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Ivey Residential, LLC Evans, GA
KB Home Los Angeles, CA
Mentapo Homes Sco^rJn A7
Andeisen Corporation Bavport, MN
Bosch Home Appliances Corporation Irvine, CA
GE Lighting Fairfield, CT
ITW Food Equipment Group Troy, OH
Manitowoc Foodservice New Port Richev, FL
Panasonic Eco Solutions North America Secaucus, NJ
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Suwon, South Korea
Lowe's Companies, Inc. Mooresville, NC
Sears Holdings Corporation Hoffman Estates, IL
Service and
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Cenergistic Dallas, TX
Ecova Spokane, WA
EnergyCAR Inc. State College, PA
Servidyne Atlanta, GA
The E Group, a Division of FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. Akron, OH
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Energy-Logic Berthoud, CO
Southern Energy Management Morhsville, NC
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Allergan, Inc. Irvine, CA
Beacon Capital Partners, LLC Boston, MA
Brandywine Realty Trust Radnor, PA
Cassidy Turley Washington, DC
Des Moines Public Schools Des Moines, IA
Eastman Chemical Company Kingsport, TN
Air Force Medical Support Agency- Health Facilities Division San Antonio, TX
Kenton County School District Ft. Wright, KY
Li berty Property Trust Malvern, PA
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Houston, TX
North Penn School District Lansdale, PA
Scott County Schools Georgetown, KY
Verizon Wireless Basking Ridge, NJ
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LG Electronics, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Pella Corporation Peila, IA
Philips Lighting Company Somerset, NJ
ProVia Sugarcreek, OH
Scotsman Ice Systems Vernon Hills, IL
Sharp Electronics Corporation Mahwah, NJ
Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP) Aurora, OH
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Burton Energy Group Alpharetta, GA
Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc. Celina, OH
FSL Home Energy Solutions Phoenix, AZ
National Grid Waltham, MA
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Cayce, SC
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Cree, Inc. Durham, NC
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Award Winner Profiles: _
Sustained Excellence
ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM DELIVERY
A unit of American Electric Power
AEP Texas Central
Corpus Christi, Texas
AEP Texas Central is an electric energy delivery utility
serving nearly 650,000 residential customers in the south
Texas area. The organization has been working toward
increasing the performance, availability, and demand
for ENERGY STAR certified homes. AEP Texas Central is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its continued technical and
marketing support promoting the ENERGY STAR New
Homes program. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Supporting participating builders in the construction
of more than 350 ENERGY STAR certified new homes,
resulting in a collective 1,100 MWh of energy savings.
•	Attracting more than 60 home builders, recommitting
eight program raters, and adding one new rater to the
program in 2012.
•	Increasing understanding of ENERGY STAR Version
3.0 among program participants through one-on-one
meetings and dozens of training sessions.
•	Raising awareness of the benefits of ENERGY STAR
certified homes by participating in more than 35 events
with a reach in excess of 21,000 consumers.
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APS (Arizona Public Service)
Phoenix, Arizona
Arizona Public Service (APS) is Arizona's largest and
longest-serving electric utility, with more than 1.1 million
customers across the state. Since partnering with ENERGY
STAR Certified Homes and ENERGY STAR certified
products in 2005, APS has expanded its ENERGY STAR
portfolio to include ENERGY STAR certified buildings and
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES). APS is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its role as a regional leader
in energy efficiency and its ongoing commitment to the
ENERGY STAR Certified Homes and HPwES programs. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
• Implementing a successful HPwES program by
collaborating with FSL Home Energy Solutions, Salt
River Project (SRP), and Southwest Gas Corporation
(SGC).
•	Exceeding program goals for HPwES by conducting over
5,000 audits and 2,384 retrofits, while maintaining a
strong conversion rate of 32.4 percent.
•	Providing incentives for more than 1,840 ENERGY STAR
certified homes, bringing the total number of certified
homes since 2006 to nearly 12,000.
•	Developing consumer and builder marketing materials,
including a sales book for builders to use to describe,
in detail, the features and benefits of an ENERGY STAR
certified home to a potential homebuyer.
•	Developing half-day trainings with members of a
construction team, including a HERS rater and an HVAC
installer, and focusing on details to ensure the team's
success in building ENERGY STAR certified homes.
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Austin Energy
Austin, TX
With more than 330,000 residential customers, Austin Energy is
the City of Austin's municipal electric utility, delivering power to
a service territory of more than 420 square miles. The company
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for continuing to enhance and expand its
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) program. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
•	Achieving 36 percent of its annual HPwES retrofit goals by
completing more than 2,134 retrofits, saving homeowners
approximately 4,161 MWh.
•	Encouraging HPwES participants to implement all
recommended efficiency measures through consumer education
and incentives; 33 percent of all participants completed all
measures.
•	Offering more than 17 contractor training sessions, with
specialized training offered for more than 100 contractors and
building professionals.
•	Providing retrofit duct system design and AC charge
adjustments to 16 single-family dwellings through Austin
Energy's System Performance Pilot Program. The program
provides greater savings and comfort for homeowners, as well
as significant reductions in energy demand.
•	Identifying and targeting tightly defined market segments with
demographically and contextually relevant messaging. Austin
Energy also maximized display advertising by implementing
data-driven targeting, including behavioral, search, and site
retargeting.
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Constellation Energy/Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE)
Baltimore, Maryland
Constellation Energy/Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE)
is the largest utility in Maryland, serving more than 1.2 million
electricity customers and more than 650,000 gas customers.
BGE's Smart Energy Savers Program offers residential energy
efficiency solutions that leverage ENERGY STAR certified
products, new homes, and Home Performance with ENERGY STAR
(HPwES). BGE is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year-
Sustained Excellence recognition for its continued success in
leveraging ENERGY STAR messaging to highlight quality and help
customers identify efficient products and new homes. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Helping generate the sale of more than 2.5 million ENERGY
STAR certified lighting products, bringing the program total to
over 12 million and saving BGE customers more than 450,000
MWh.
•	Providing targeted incentives to lowering the upfront costs
of ENERGY STAR certified appliances, influencing the sale of
37,000 units for a program total of 142,000 units and savings in
excess of 19,000 MWh.
•	Permanently removing from the grid and properly recycling (in
accordance with EPA's Responsible Appliance and Recycling
Program) more than 21,000 old inefficient refrigerators and
freezers, avoiding 170,000 metric tons of carbon emissions
since program inception.
Influenced the completion of more than 1,200 ENERGY STAR
certified homes for a total of more than 4,400 new homes and
savings of 8,000 MWh and 1.1 million therms to date.
Facilitated more than 575 HPwES projects, saving 830 MWh
and nearly 40,000 therms.
Conducting extensive consumer outreach across all its
efficiency programs to highlight the benefits of ENERGY STAR,
yielding more than 654 million impressions through the program
website; collateral and print materials; and TV, radio, online and
billboard advertisements.
Strengthening HPwES participating contractor resources,
including sales training, guidebooks, mentoring, and a
contractor report card designed to motivate project completions
and customer service.
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Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International
Washington, District of Columbia
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA)
International is a multinational federation of more than
100 local associations and affiliated organizations.
Together, its more than 16,500 members own or manage
nearly 10 billion square feet of U.S. office space. BOMA is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its leadership in promoting
benchmarking and the adoption of energy efficiency best
practices to the commercial real estate market. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Completing its 7-Point Challenge, in which more than
130 participating member companies and BOMA
local associations accepted the Challenge to improve
energy efficiency by 30 percent across their commercial
portfolios by 2012. Active Challenge participants
reduced their adjusted energy use by approximately 7.5
percent from baseline.
•	Continuing to integrate ENERGY STAR into its
education, outreach, and advocacy, as well as its
best practices and awards programs. For example,
benchmarking with Portfolio Manager is a prerequisite
of its prestigious award program, The Outstanding
Building of the Year (TOBY).
•	Partnering with the Rocky Mountain Institute to address
the split incentive barrier and identify opportunities
for collaboration between owners and tenants, and
together creating the guidebook, "Working Together for
Sustainability: The RMI-BOMA Guide for Landlords and
Tenants."
•	Increasing participation in the BOMA STARS initiative
to promote the importance of benchmarking energy
consumption in commercial buildings through Portfolio
Manager and sharing it with BOMAs master account
to help demonstrate the effectiveness of the voluntary
marketplace. Since January 2011, more than 3,420
buildings have benchmarked and shared their data.
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CenterPoint Energy
Houston, Texas
CenterPoint Energy is an electric transmission and
distribution utility serving the greater Houston area
with the goal of creating a sustainable market for the
construction and sale of ENERGY STAR certified homes.
A partner since 2001, CenterPoint Energy is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence
recognition for its longstanding and comprehensive
support of the ENERGY STAR New Homes program. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
•	Supporting the construction of more than 6,500 ENERGY
STAR certified homes, contributing to a total of 111,000
certified homes built since 2001.
•	Facilitating the transition to ENERGY STAR Version
3.0 by distributing informational newsletters and
emails, holding one-on-one meetings and hundreds of
phone calls to keep builders and raters informed about
program requirements, and conducting outreach events
to recognize partners' achievements.
•	Holding various training sessions—both technical, such
as HVAC Quality Installation and System Design class
for local HVAC companies, and sales-oriented, such as
home builder sales training for sales staff members—to
maintain momentum and garner more support for the
program.
•	Encouraging builder partners to leverage the ENERGY
STAR brand by providing free marketing collateral such
as yard signs, door mats, and brochures.
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ComEd.
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ComEd
Chicago, Illinois
ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, which is one
of the nation's largest electric and gas utilities, provides service to
approximately 3.8 million northern Illinois customers, of which 98
percent are residential. ComEd is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner
of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its continued
success in leveraging ENERGY STAR and actively coordinating
with other energy efficiency program administrators in its service
territory to deliver customer-centered, market-friendly energy
efficiency offerings. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Helping customers save more than 334 million net kWh of
electricity and exceeding its statutory goals by nearly 54
percent—more than half of these savings come from initiatives
tied directly to ENERGY STAR.
•	Helping generate the sale of more than 12 million ENERGY
STAR certified light bulbs—an increase of more than 1 million
compared to 2011—and providing important education on how
to choose lighting since new federal lighting standards began
to take effect.
•	Coordinating with Nicor Gas to successfully promote the
simultaneous purchase of ENERGY STAR certified central air
conditioning and furnace equipment while offering additional
incentives for the purchase of models recognized as ENERGY
STAR Most Efficient 2012.
•	Leveraging ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager as a starting
point for energy efficiency education with commercial
customers, facilitating automatic data uploads, and using
performance scores to inform opportunity assessments and
retro-commissioning offerings. Where possible, ComEd ties
commercial product incentives to ENERGY STAR certified
models. ComEd also recently launched a new program targeting
data centers, which incorporates ENERGY STAR benchmarking
and outreach activities.
•	Completing 450 energy assessments and Home Performance
with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) projects, with approximately 65
percent of participants achieving at least a 15 percent total
energy savings and qualifying for the Illinois HPwES Certificates
of Completion.
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Focus on Energy
Madison, Wisconsin
Focus on Energy, Wisconsin utilities' statewide program for
energy efficiency and renewable energy, helps eligible residents
and businesses save energy and money while protecting the
environment. Focus on Energy is funded by more than 4.7 million
ratepayers of Wisconsin's Investor Owned Utilities as well as
participating municipal and electric cooperative utilities. In
2012, Focus on Energy provided assistance to more than 380,000
customers who pursued energy efficiency and renewable energy
solutions in their homes and businesses. Focus on Energy
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its comprehensive approach to the
delivery of commercial and residential sector energy efficiency
programs. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Completing the Retail Energy Management Challenge, a
Building Performance with ENERGY STAR pilot program, and
recognizing local retailers for achieving notable energy savings
from among the more than 100 participating stores.
•	Launching new programs targeting small businesses, chain
stores and franchises, and large energy users designed to
promote building performance and help customers overcome
market barriers that prevent proactive energy management.
•	Increasing Wisconsin participation in EPA's National Building
Competition by helping facilities make energy efficiency
upgrades with support from technical staff members and by
providing financial resources. Focus on Energy's business
programs served more than 4,800 customers, saving
approximately 448 million kWh of electricity and 22.1 million
therms of gas.
•	Promoting a variety of ENERGY STAR certified products
across its residential, commercial, and industrial programs. In
addition, at over 650 retail locations across the state, instant
consumer incentives coupled with sales training and point of
sale promotions yielded an estimated savings of more than 150
million kWh in 2012.
•	Helping with 1,785 projects through its Home Performance
with ENERGY STAR program by shifting its program design to
a contractor-based model enabling greater participation for
homeowners and re-enrolling trade allies into the new program
model.
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KPPC
Kentucky's Resource Center for
Environmental Sustainability
KPPC - Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center
Louisville, Kentucky
Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center (KPPC) is a state-
mandated, non-regulatory environmental technical
assistance resource center that helps Kentucky's
businesses, industries, school districts, and other
organizations stay environmentally sustainable and
competitive. Through on-site assessments, training,
workshops, webinars, online resources, and recognition
programs, KPPC leverages the ENERGY STAR program to
help clients establish sustainable, self-directed energy
management programs that reduce operational expenses
through improved energy performance year after year. KPPC
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for developing and promoting tools,
training materials, and other resources that incorporate the
ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management, and for
recruiting participants to ENERGY STAR initiatives, such as
the ENERGY STAR Challenge. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
• Conducting 33 onsite energy efficiency assessments
which identified more than 127,000 MMbtu in potential
energy savings, with a projected annual cost savings of
more than $1.2 million.
Issuing 54 energy performance awards to recognize
client successes based on milestones reached through
the ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management.
Publicizing clients' success by implementing the ENERGY
STAR Guidelines for Energy Management on the KPPC
website, in newsletters, in press releases, and at events.
Delivering a presentation on ENERGY STAR tools and
resources to 70 attendees at the Kentucky Association
of Manufacturers' (KAM) second annual Energy
Conference.
Helping nearly all of Kentucky's 174 public school
districts discover ways to cut costs and better manage
their energy use. The successful program, which
incorporates the use of ENERGY STAR tools, is garnering
national attention and is being used as a model to
establish a K-12 technical assistance pilot project
in Georgia.
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Long Island Power Authority (LIPA)
Uniondale, New York
The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), the second
largest municipal electric utility in the nation, offers a
broad range of energy efficiency programs focused on all
market sectors through the Efficiency Long Island (ELI)
initiative. LIPA is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for delivering its
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) program.
LIPA also promotes ENERGY STAR certified products and
ENERGY STAR certified homes. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
•	Generating 5,460 MWh of energy savings and peak
demand reductions of 1.47 MW, and rebating a total of
more than $9.2 million to 4,237 customers participating
in LIPA's HPwES program since the program began in
2006.
•	Increasing HPwES program participation by 2,413
customers. These homeowners received free
Comprehensive Home Assessments and 'direct installs'
of select energy efficiency measures identified at the
time of the initial audit.
•	Leading regional collaboration, outreach, and support to
local HPwES participating contractors to establish and
grow their businesses.
•	Expanding the LIPA program to offer free energy audits
and low-interest loans to qualifying customers, and
starting the On Bill Recovery Loan Program through
LIPA's partnership with NYSERDA and Green Jobs Green
New York.
•	Introducing its NY Optimization System, a method
that streamlines program, measures, and incentivizes
selection so contractors can more easily sell the
benefits of HPwES and so customers can better select
services that fit their needs and budget.
•	Partnering with the Department of Energy's Home
Energy Score to score 90 homes.
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LG&E and KU
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities are owned and
operated by LG&E and KU Energy, a diversified energy services
company. Together, these utilities provide gas and electric service
to Louisville, Lexington, and surrounding counties in Kentucky
and five counties in Virginia. LG&E and KU are receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for
their continued technical, marketing, and educational support
promoting the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes program. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Providing incentives for 341 ENERGY STAR certified homes,
for a total of 2,677 certified homes since the program was
launched in 2009.
•	Delivering the yearlong "Technical Training Series" for builders,
home energy raters, and allied industry groups to emphasize
the value of continued support of the ENERGY STAR Version 3.0
program model.
•	Achieving an estimated 2,189 MWh in annual electric savings
and 747 kW in annual demand reductions.
•	Continuing efforts with a state-level task force to implement
legislation promoting the practice of incorporating the value of
energy efficiency in real estate appraisals. Delegates include:
Kentucky Mortgage Bankers Association, Kentucky Real Estate
Appraisers Board, Home Builders Association of Kentucky,
Kentucky Association of Realtors, and Kentucky Division of
Energy Efficiency and Conservation.
•	Participating in and sponsoring community-wide, regional, and
statewide events associated with energy efficiency to inform
potential homeowners and home builders about the benefits of
ENERGY STAR certified homes.
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
Trenton, New Jersey
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) promotes energy
efficiency and clean energy by providing financial incentives and
informational services to New Jersey residents, business owners,
and local governments through its statewide New Jersey's Clean
Energy Program. NJBPU is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its innovative and
high-quality delivery of energy efficiency programming across the
residential sector. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Completing 9,966 assessments and 3,702 projects, bringing the
total number of completed projects since 2007 to over 11,000.
•	Saving 832 kW annual demand reduction and 2,676 MWh
in annual electric savings as well as 42,319 Dth annual gas
savings.
•	Providing educational and technical webinars and orientation
sessions to new contractors.
•	Reimbursing 71 advertisements through a co-operative
advertising model whereby contractors received a 40 percent
reimbursement for various types of advertising.
•	Implementing and promoting financial incentives, which include
zero-percent interest loans for consumers, to make it affordable
for consumers to finance energy efficiency upgrades.
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New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Albany, New York
• Offering low-interest financing to homeowners,
including On-Bill Recovery Financing, paid back through
utility bills, helping 173 homeowners finance their
energy improvement work.
As a public benefit corporation, the New York State
Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
administers programs that are designed to help New
York meet its energy goals: reduce energy consumption,
promote the use of renewable energy sources, and protect
the environment. NYSERDA is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for its Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES)
program. NYSERDA also undertakes activities to promote
ENERGY STAR certified products and ENERGY STAR
certified homes. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Completing 5,755 HPwES projects and 775 quality
assurance field inspections, and exceeding a 35 percent
assessment-to-completed project conversion rate.
•	Training over 4,000 participants in energy efficiency
technologies and practices as part of NYSERDA's energy
efficiency workforce development initiatives.
• Incentivizing 1,800 New York ENERGY STAR certified
homes, for a total of 21,600 homes built since NYSERDA
joined the program.
Building on a practice of designing marketing activities
around ENERGY STAR certified products, messaging, and
branding designed to reach all Northeast customers, and
building on efforts to reach under-served communities in
the Northeast, including seniors, low-income residents,
and non-English speaking residents.
Increasing the availability of ENERGY STAR certified
appliances, lighting, and consumer electronics to all
demographics through expanded program offerings in
under-represented retail channels such as grocery chains,
hardware stores, pharmacies, local dollar and discount
stores, Salvation Army locations, and local food banks.
Creating consumer education materials to help guide
consumers through the changing landscape of lighting, and
broadening regional lighting programs to include ENERGY
STAR certified specialty CFLs and LED products.
Continuing relationships with more than 4,000 retailers
to help train sales staff on the benefits of ENERGY STAR
certified appliances and lighting products, making more
than 24,000 site visits to partnering retail stores.
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Inc. (NEEP)
Lexington, Massachusetts
The sponsoring organizations of the Northeast Retail Products •
Initiative (the Initiative), facilitated by Northeast Energy
Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP), include: Cape Light Compact,
National Grid (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire,
and New York), NSTAR Electric, Western Massachusetts
Electric Company (WMECO), NHSaves (National Grid, Unitil,
Public Service of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Electric .
Co-op), Efficiency Vermont, Connecticut Light & Power
(CL&P), The United Illuminating Company (Ul), Long Island
Power Authority (LIPA), New York State Energy Research and
Development Authority (NYSERDA), and the DC Sustainable
Energy Utility (DC SEU). The Initiative is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for expanding on its tradition of employing regional	•
collaboration as the key driver of market transformation for
ENERGY STAR certified products geographically—with the
addition of new members—and programmatically through
the expansion of coordinated energy efficiency programming. .
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Achieving lasting energy savings—4.4 million MWh in
lifetime energy savings in 2012 alone—through cooperative
promotions with retailers and manufacturers, retailer
training, incentives, and customer marketing and education.
• Expanding workforce development and training of a
service-delivery infrastructure composed of building
performance service providers for sustainable market
transformation.
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Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA)
Portland, Oregon
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) is a nonprofit
organization that is supported by and works in collaboration
with the Bonneville Power Administration, Energy Trust of
Oregon and more than 100 Northwest utilities on behalf
of more than 12 million consumers. The Northwest Energy
Efficiency Alliance is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its innovative
and high-quality marketing as well as continued commitment
to the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes program. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Providing incentives for 3,030 ENERGY STAR certified homes
in 2012, for a total of 20,134 certified homes since the
program's inception in 2005.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
San Francisco, California
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is one of the largest
combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United
States, serving approximately 15 million people throughout
a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central
California. PG&E is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
- Sustained Excellence recognition for its campaigns to promote
ENERGY STAR certified products, collaborations to help build
stakeholder support for ENERGY STAR programs and product
specifications, and programs designed to bring ENERGY STAR
certified products directly into customer homes and businesses.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Helping customers save more than $2 billion in average
lifecycle energy bills, and avoid the emissions of nearly
840,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
•	Building strategic partnerships to tap market knowledge
and increase delivery channel efficiency, accelerate market
innovation, and reach a broader range of customers. In
addition to working with third-party partners that manage
approximately 50 portfolio programs and strategic
collaborations with 35 local and regional governments, PG&E
has created channel alliances, such as the Trade Professional
Alliance of 2,000 contractors, as well as executive-level
strategic agreements that expand relationships with leading
national retailers.
•	Continuing to offer innovative streamlined ENERGY STAR-
focused retail channel programs that cross utility service
Achievinq an estimated 9 million kVVh of annual enerqy savings
in 2012."
Supporting more than 433 active homebuilders across Idaho,
Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
Distributing public service announcements (PSAs) to regional
radio and TV broadcast groups, resulting in more than $600,000
in valued media received for free by leveraging NEEA's nonprofit
status, thus creating 10 million media impressions. Since 2008,
the program has leveraged more than $3 million in free media.
Facilitating delivery of a Cost Data Addendum form to the
market, with the help of local experts. The form provides
builders with a means to communicate the value of installed
energy measures to their appraisers. Over 200 appraisers took
the training determining the value of installed energy measures.
territory and state lines, simplifying program administration,
reducing participation costs for retail and manufacturer
partners, and driving a consistent message to customers about
the benefits of energy efficiency.
Promoting the ENERGY STAR brand to retailers through a field
team that made approximately 6,500 in-store visits to more
than 750 retailers and food service equipment dealers, provided
regular sales associate training on rebate program offerings,
placed point of sale materials, and educated sales staff about
ENERGY STAR certified consumer electronics, appliances, and
advanced lighting products.
Deploying a "31 Ways to Save" campaign featuring ENERGY
STAR for Energy Awareness Month. The campaign included
a live mobile tour that stopped at 21 events in October—
including retail store visits and a San Francisco 49er game—
reaching more than 100,000 customers, and having direct
one-on-one interactions with more than 6,700 customers.
Providing customers with energy data for the benchmarking
of more than 6,000 commercial buildings in EPA's ENERGY
STAR Portfolio Manager tool—more than any other utility in
the country. PG&E continued to demonstrate its leadership
in supporting commercial building benchmarking through an
extensive training program and Web-based resources, and
an extensive outreach campaign to 53,000 building owners
encouraging them to benchmark in Portfolio Manager.
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A unit of American Electric Power
Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) has served
Oklahoma's electric energy needs since 1913. Today, PSO
serves approximately 527,000 customers in 230 cities
and towns. PSO is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for continuing
to enhance and expand its Home Performance with
ENERGY STAR (EIPwES) program. PSO also participates
in the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes program. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Achieving 313 completed HPwES projects, a growth of
over 18 percent since 2011.
•	Providing audit and upgrade services to approximately
500 homeowners, achieving 1,108 MW and 3,170 MWh
in savings through HPwES.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
EDISON
An EDISON INTERNATIONAL® Company
Southern California Edison
Rosemead, California
Southern California Edison (SCE) delivers electrical energy
solutions to nearly 14 million residents in southern and
central California. SCE continues to distinguish itself
through its tradition of leveraging ENERGY STAR at a
corporate and strategic level, to engage its customers in an
effort to advance energy efficiency in a lasting manner. SCE
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for this approach, which has
enabled SCE and its customers to save over 8.6 billion kVVh
in the past five years, enough energy to power more than
1.2 million California homes. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR certified products across its
broad portfolio of up-, mid-, downstream, and low-
income assistance programs in the residential and
commercial markets to ensure that all its customers
understand the value of, and have access to, ENERGY
STAR certified products.
•	Promoting refrigerators and clothes washers recognized
as ENERGY STAR Most Efficient 2012 with higher
incentives in a high impact, high-visibility redesign
of one of its largest mass market rebate programs to
incorporate a tiered incentive.
•	Reaching out to customers with a message to adopt
Establishing a strong HPwES participating contractor
community through training workshops with industry
experts on business development, Air Conditioning
Contractors of America's Manual J and D trainings, and
consistent outreach at local trade ally events.
Partnering with the Tulsa Community College (TCC)
to leverage a grant from the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act that provided occupation transition
services. As a result, TCC offered BPI Building Analyst
and HERS Rater certification courses that resulted in
more than 60 individuals receiving either BPI or HERS
Rater certifications.
Providing incentives for nearly 260 ENERGY STAR
certified homes, saving homeowners approximately 345
kW of demand and 470 MWh of energy savings.
energy-efficient lifestyles through ENERGY STAR,
including leveraging the "Change the World, Start with
ENERGY STAR" event series and pledge, and Team
ENERGY STAR—and securing more than 46 million
impressions through more than 65 delivery outlets,
including print, online, television, radio, and events.
Expanding on enrollment in SCE's Automated
Benchmarking Service through ENERGY STAR Portfolio
Manager to more than 177 unique SCE customers with
over 1,000 buildings.
Making building benchmarking a strategic program focus
supported by an innovative marketing and awareness
campaign that reached almost 42,000 customers,
website resources, hands-on training, and an automated
system for sending billing data to EPA's ENERGY STAR
Portfolio Manager tool. SCE requires benchmarking for
participation in three of its incentive programs. More
than 1,250 customer buildings, representing 16 million
feet of floor space, were benchmarked using energy data
from the utility's automated system in 2012, and nearly
200 customers received training.
Achieving, in partnership with its customers, 1,593 GWh
in energy savings and 294 MW of permanent demand
reduction.
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ENERGY MANAGEMENT
3M Company
St. Paul, Minnesota
3M is a multinational technology company with operations in
more than 65 countries. The company strategically manages
energy use throughout its operations and continues to build upon
a sound energy management foundation. 3M is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for its ongoing improvements in energy performance and
sustainability efforts. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Improving global energy efficiency by 3.7 percent, saving more
than $15 million in energy costs in 2012. The company has
improved energy intensity by 32 percent since 2005.
•	Completing 203 energy efficiency projects to save $7.32 million
in 2012 and dedicating resources for enhancing the company's
existing energy data and metering system to build a new
generation of energy savings opportunities.
•	Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and EPA to
host a meeting in the St. Paul/Minneapolis region to introduce
manufacturers to EPA's ENERGY STAR industrial energy
management resources.
•	Instituting strategic projects, including incorporating a
variable air volume system into laboratory fume hoods at
3M headquarters to reduce the amount of conditioned air
exhausted for a savings of $350,000 annually, and redesigning
the manufacturing process for a skin tape product from solvent-
based to solvent-free, eliminating the need for thermal ovens
and thermal combustion of process gases for a savings of over
$260,000.
•	Partnering with St. Paul Public Schools to educate students on
energy efficiency and to link 3M engineers with student teams
to improve school energy performance.
ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal USA
Chicago, Illinois
ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel and mining company,
provides steel solutions for the automobile, construction,
household appliance, and energy markets. ArcelorMittal USA
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its commitment to identifying and
implementing innovative solutions to increase the sustainability
of its operations, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect the
environment and natural resources, while saving energy and
costs. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Accomplishing a 3.6 percent reduction in energy intensity,
which is equivalent to powering 224,470 homes for a year.
•	Expanding the ArcelorMittal USA energy program to include
mining operations throughout the United States.
•	Coordinating with other manufacturers, utilities, and EPA to
host a meeting in the Northwest Indiana region to introduce
manufacturers to EPA's ENERGY STAR industrial energy
management resources.
•	Carrying out projects targeted at energy efficiency including
steam trap and leak management and improving motor
utilization through use of variable frequency drives (VFDs) - at
one plant, steam savings in 2012 equaled $1,375 million while
elsewhere, VFDs were installed to control five motors resulting
in electrical savings of $200,000 and reduced maintenance
savings of $200,000.
•	Completing a boiler project that transfers blast furnace gas
(BEG) to a new boiler which cogenerates steam and electricity,
nearly eliminating the flaring of BFG, and is expected to save
$20 million annually.
•	Encouraging employee energy achievements by developing and
showcasing energy videos highlighting employees and their
successful energy projects on the company's television circuits
and intranet.
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Bentall
Kennedy
Bentall Kennedy
Toronto, Ontario
As one of North America's largest independent real estate
investment advisors, Bentall Kennedy serves more than
500 clients across commercial space valued at $29 billion,
including more than 50 million square feet of assets in
the United States valued at more than $8.4 billion. Bentall
Kennedy is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
- Sustained Excellence recognition for continuing to set
and achieve new energy efficiency goals for its portfolio
using ENERGY STAR tools and resources. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Benchmarking more than 130 eligible office and
industrial buildings each month, representing about
19 million square feet, and pursuing ENERGY STAR
certification for every eligible building.
•	Reducing energy use by six percent compared to 2009
in its U.S. portfolio, resulting in a cumulative reduction
CALPORTLAND
CalPortland Company
Glendora, California
CalPortland Company is a major producer of cement,
concrete, aggregates, and asphalt in the western
United States. Energy management is a key component
of the company's greenhouse gas emissions control
and sustainability strategies. CalPortland is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence
recognition for continued pursuit of energy management
within its organization and for promoting ENERGY STAR.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Reducing energy intensity by 0.3 percent compared to
2011, despite harsh market conditions that make energy
efficiency improvement difficult,
•	Extending energy management to product transport by
tracking truck fuel usage, managing delivery routes, and
minimizing idling time, among other optimizations of
trucking efficiency.
•	Executing capital improvements and process
optimizations designed to save energy including
replacement of a heat exchanger on a preheater tower
with a water spray gas conditioning system to reduce
of about 39 million kWh and $4.3 million in energy cost
savings since 2009.
•	Maintaining an average ENERGY STAR score of 75
across its entire portfolio, even with a three percent
increase in occupancy in 2012.
•	Expanding benchmarking capabilities by launching
the Bentall Kennedy Eco Tracker energy management
platform across the U.S. portfolio, complementing
ENERGY STAR benchmarking efforts by means of
Portfolio Manager Data Exchange, and ensuring more
accurate data through enhanced verification measures.
•	Communicating the value of ENERGY STAR by fostering
in-depth tenant-engagement programs, leveraging
ENERGY STAR tools and resources to target behavioral
change, and incorporating more intelligent control
systems to achieve additional energy reductions.
demand by more than 1,000 kW and energy use by
nearly 9 million kWh.
•	Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and
EPA to host a well-attended meeting in the Los Angeles
region to introduce local manufacturers to ENERGY
STAR industrial energy management resources.
•	Promoting energy management among U.S. cement
manufacturers by supporting EPA's ENERGY STAR
Focus on Energy Efficiency in Cement and Concrete
Manufacturing.
•	Registering nine plants in EPA's ENERGY STAR
Challenge for Industry with four of the plants having
achieved the Challenge to date.
•	Promoting energy management through employee
participation in community and school outreach
programs including parades, holiday events, rodeos,
school visits, career days, plant tours, and other
community gatherings with exposure to nearly
108,000 people.
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CBRE, Inc.
Los Angeles, California
CBRE is a global leader in real estate services, managing more
than 3 billion square feet of commercial properties and corporate
facilities worldwide. CBRE is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner
of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for using its
leadership position to raise the bar for energy efficiency across
the industry, while leveraging ENERGY STAR as the foundation of
its approach. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Reducing energy intensity by more than 8.5 percent across its
registered national portfolio.
•	Benchmarking 1,383 CBRE-managed buildings in Portfolio
Manager, representing more than 256 million square feet.
•	Earning the ENERGY STAR for 229 buildings, with 297
additional properties that are either in the process of applying
or eligible for certification.
•	Achieving an average ENERGY STAR score of 79 across its 150
million square foot portfolio of buildings, with more than 24
months of data—a two-point improvement compared to 2011.
•	Introducing the "ENERGYplus" platform that automatically
uploads building data into Portfolio Manager, as well as
developing a coordinated and centralized ENERGY STAR
certification engineering service for managed buildings.
•	Continuing its successful partnership with Building Owners and
Managers Association (BOMA) International to train all CBRE
real estate managers and building engineering personnel. Since
2007, more than 13,000 attendees have participated in the four-
part training series.
•	Educating employees and the community about energy
efficiency by entering 36 managed buildings as participants in
EPAs 2012 ENERGY STAR National Building Competition.
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Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
As a nonprofit academic medical center, Cleveland Clinic operates
more than 200 institutes, community hospitals, and family centers
comprising 24 million square feet in Ohio, Florida, and Nevada,
as well as several locations abroad. Cleveland Clinic is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for integrating energy management into its patient
care mission. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Reducing its average annual source energy intensity by 14.3
kBtu per square foot, while increasing the size of its portfolio by
247,000 square feet.
•	Increasing its portfolio-wide average ENERGY STAR energy
performance score by four points compared to its 2011 score.
•	Earning the ENERGY STAR for one facility and tracking the
energy use of all its facilities in Portfolio Manager.
•	Installing a building automation system, the largest healthcare
application of its kind in the United States on 14 million square
feet of space, in order to identify underperforming HVAC,
power management, elevators, and other systems for targeted
maintenance and efficiency improvements.
•	Supporting seven hospitals, four medical office buildings,
and one office in EPA's 2012 ENERGY STAR National Building
Competition.
•	Encouraging its staff of 40,000 and surrounding community to
save energy with ENERGY STAR by launching a month-long
energy awareness campaign called "Focusing our Energy on
Patient Care;" holding a poster contest at the Cleveland Clinic
Children's Hospital with the theme "Saving energy starts with
me!"; and flying a banner over its busiest public street.
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COLGATE-PALMOLIVE
Colgate-Palmolive Company
New York, New York
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a consumer products
manufacturer serving people in more than 200 countries
and territories. The company recognizes the importance
of managing energy resources and protecting the earth's
climate and is committed to acting responsibly through
sustainable operations. Colgate-Palmolive is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for its strong partnership with the program and
efforts to continuously improve its energy strategy. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
• Improving energy efficiency by 3.4 percent compared
to 2011 and by 6.7 percent since 2009, while avoiding
$126 million in energy costs arid reducing carbon
dioxide emissions by 5.4 percent. Energy savings in
2012 prevented carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to
those that would result from providing electricity for 687
homes for one year.
•	Continuing to build on EPA's ENERGY STAR Challenge
for Industry as its own internal energy award program to
recognize facilities worldwide for their energy reduction
achievements, adding nine new sites that have
achieved the Challenge.
•	Coordinating with ENERGY STAR Partner Merck to pilot
test a new manufacturing plant energy assessment
process in two plants.
•	Investing 2.7 percent of the company's capital budget
for energy reduction projects.
•	Coordinating with Merck, utilities, other manufacturers,
and EPA to host a meeting in the New Jersey region to
introduce manufacturers to ENERGY STAR'S industrial
energy management resources.
Evergreen Public Schools
Vancouver, Washington
Evergreen Public Schools (EPS) is the fourth largest district
in Washington and serves nearly 27,000 students in 35
schools. EPS is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its ongoing
commitment to finding new ways to save energy and
promote its successes with ENERGY STAR. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Raising its average, portfolio-wide ENERGY STAR
energy performance score by five points to 84.
This represents a 48-point increase since 2008 and
40-percent reduction in energy use overall—earning
recognition as both an ENERGY STAR Leader and
ENERGY STAR Top Performer in 2012.
•	Saving more than $6.5 million since first implementing
its multifaceted energy management approach in 2008.
•	Providing support for the district's HVAC technicians to
be trained in the most efficient operation of the schools'
equipment to reduce inefficiencies and save energy for
the district.
•	Promoting a culture of enerqy awareness through
ENERGY STAR by displaying the ENERGY STAR logo
on all publications, banners at all schools, community
videos, educational presentations, and newsletter
stories.
•	Continuing to implement energy efficiency projects, such
as replacing incandescent lamps in an auditorium with
LED lamps and replacing 10 rooftop HVAC units that
feature heat recovery capabilities at a middle school.
•	Encouraging district staff members to save energy
through regular resource conservation meetings held
to share ideas and troubleshoot issues related to
conservation.
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FOOD LION
Food Lion, Bottom Dollar Food, Harveys and Reid's
Salisbury, North Carolina
Food Lion, Bottom Dollar Food, Harveys, and Reid's (FL/BDF/H/R)
is the largest operating entity of Belgium-based Delhaize
Group, which owns 3,400 grocery stores in 11 countries. FL/
BDF/H/R is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year-
Sustained Excellence recognition for its continued dedication to
identifying, developing, and investing in new technologies and
operational best practices to save energy and money. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Improving companywide energy use by 103 billion kBtu. Since
2000, FL/BDF/H/R has improved its energy consumption by
more than 2.8 trillion Btu, or 30.9 percent.
•	Earning the ENERGY STAR for an additional 90 stores, for a
total of 1,077 stores, or 85 percent of the entire chain.
•	Mentoring independently-operated sister company Sweetbay
Supermarket by helping it launch multiple energy management
initiatives and earn the ENERGY STAR for 53 of its 105 stores.
General Motors
Detroit, Michigan
General Motors Company (GM) is a leading automobile
manufacturer located in more than 120 countries with sales
reaching more than 8 million vehicles annually. The company's
energy management program is integrated into its overall
business model to ensure continuous efficiency improvements
across the entire global organization. GM is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for its ongoing progress in energy performance and support of
ENERGY STAR. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Improving the energy intensity of U.S. operations by 11
percent compared to 2011 and saving $20 million in energy
costs during that period which is equivalent to eliminating the
emissions of 280,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents
and offsetting similar emissions from the electricity use of
35,000 U.S. homes. Since 2008, GM has achieved a 16-percent
intensity reduction.
•	Tracking energy use on a real-time basis for U.S. manufacturing
sites resulting in nearly 2.5 million points of energy data that
•	Installing self-closing vinyl strip curtains in meat and produce
coolers, as well as grocery and ice cream freezers, in 299
stores.
•	Continuing to expand installations of glass door enclosures
on dairy, lunch meat, and beer cases in 89 additional stores.
Adding glass doors cuts energy consumption by 30 percent for
the specific equipment, which equals 10 to 12 percent of total
store energy.
•	Educating associates, customers, and other businesses about
the importance of energy efficiency through 30-second, in-store
announcements about energy conservation, dimming sales floor
lighting for one hour at most stores to raise awareness as part
of Earth Flour, and serving as speakers and panel experts at
energy-related conferences.
are collected every minute enabling the company to monitor
real-time energy performance indicators.
•	Managing energy in its operations by retro-commissioning
the HVAC systems in two assembly plants to save $5 million
in 2012, and facilitating real-time continuous commissioning
of this equipment elsewhere in the United States to save $3
million.
•	Showing leadership in energy efficiency in the U.S.
metalcasting industry by sharing energy management practices
and benchmarking with other manufacturers in EPA's ENERGY
STAR Focus on Energy Efficiency in Metalcasting.
•	Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and EPA to
host a meeting in the Detroit region to introduce manufacturers
to ENERGY STAR industrial energy management resources.
•	Earning EPA's ENERGY STAR certification for two auto assembly
plants, four warehouses, and an office building. GM's workto
promote its achievements at one of these sites resulted in more
than 80 news articles and reached an audience of 1.4 million.
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Gresham-Barlow School District
Gresham, Oregon
Gresham-Barlow School District (Gresham-Barlow)
is the tenth largest district in Oregon and educates
approximately 12,000 K-12 students across its 19 schools.
The district is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its leadership
among school districts in maintaining deep energy savings
and continuing to enhance its comprehensive energy
management program. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Implementing 48 facility improvement measures in
eight schools, including a new boiler system for a pool,
lighting retrofits, occupancy sensors, control upgrades,
weatherization, insulation, and maintenance.
•	Saving $1.5 million annually in avoided energy costs,
representing an amount equivalent to the combined
salaries of 22 first-year teachers.
•	Sustaining its goal of 50 percent cost avoidance for
the third consecutive year, as measured against the
baseline year of 1397-1398, despite a significant
reduction in buildings and grounds staff.
•	Achieving an average ENERGY STAR energy
performance score of 32 among the district's 19 schools,
all of which have earned the ENERGY STAR.
•	Distributing more than $25,000 to schools as a financial
incentive for performance, participation, and effort in
managing energy use, as well as recognizing staff for
the success of building-specific projects during regular
Resource Conservation meetings.
•	Continuing to publicly post monthly ENERGY STAR
scores for each school on its Energy Center website to
encourage competition among schools and demonstrate
its energy management successes to the community.
HANES
Hanesbrands Inc.
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Hanesbrands is a leading manufacturer of apparel
essentials found in nearly all households in America. The
company is focused on improving energy efficiency and
reducing greenhouse gas emissions across its operations
worldwide. Hanesbrands is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for its ongoing improvements in energy performance and
sustainability. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Improving energy intensity by 2.1 percent over 2011.
Since 2007, Hanesbrands has reduced energy intensity
by 21 percent and cut carbon emissions intensity
by more than 24 percent through a focus on energy
efficiency and increased use of renewable energy.
•	Working with EPA's ENERGY STAR program to develop
metrics for measuring and setting energy reduction
targets for nonproduction energy usage with the goal
of shifting fixed energy to variable, minimizing non-
production energy consumption in response to the
economic volatility affecting production in the apparel
market.
•	Motivating manufacturing sites around the world to
improve energy performance through EPA's ENERGY
STAR Challenge for Industry and a Hanesbrands award
issued by its senior management. In 2012, nine sites
achieved the Challenge, and 24 sites earned the
President's Energy Efficiency Award.
•	Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and
EPA to host a meeting in the Winston Salem region to
introduce manufacturers to ENERGY STAR industrial
energy management resources.
•	Highlighting its partnership with ENERGY STAR in
strategic communication campaigns to wholesale
customers, consumers, key suppliers, investors,
and shareholders through more than 205 million
impressions—a two-fold increase over 2011.
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HEI Hotels & Resorts
Norwalk, Connecticut
With 43 hotels across 16 states arid approximately 5,500
employees, HEI Hotels & Resorts (HEI) is a leading hospitality
investment company that acquires, develops, owns, and
operates upscale hotels and resorts, totalinq more than 10
million square feet. HEI is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of
the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its innovative
and holistic approach to energy management—an approach that
continues to increase energy savings, year after year. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Improving company wide energy use by 2.7 percent, for a total
reduction of more than 36 percent since 2006.
•	Reviewing and revising a number of key programs and tools
including the custom dashboard, Energy Looking Glass, and the
Energy Set-Point parameters at all locations.
•	Continuing to fund the HEI pre-approved energy capital projects
including lighting and HVAC system upgrades.
•	Reviewing and revising the chief engineers' incentive program,
awarding gift cards each quarter to select chief engineers who
proactively manage energy use at their properties.
•	Submitting the entire company portfolio to compete in EPA's
ENERGY STAR National Building Competition.
•	Distributing and promoting ENERGY STAR materials internally
and externally; promotion efforts included hanging Bring Your
Green to Work with ENERGY STAR posters throughout hotels,
co-branding marketing materials with the ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year logo, and prominently displaying Partner of
the Year crystals.
Hines
Hines
Houston, Texas
Hines is a privately owned real estate firm that manages more
than 137 million square feet of property around the world. Hines
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for embracing ENERGY STAR energy
management best practices and actively promoting ENERGY STAR
as the platform for tracking and evaluating energy performance.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Earning the ENERGY STAR for 73 properties for the first time in
2012, contributing to a total of 960 ENERGY STAR certifications
since 1999.
•	Continuing to apply a policy that requires all Hines-managed
properties to measure and track energy use in Portfolio
Manager. Hines is actively benchmarking 224 buildings,
representing 82 million square feet.
•	Maintaining a high-performing portfolio, with 75 percent
of actively benchmarked buildings earning ENERGY STAR
certification. Compared to the national average, these buildings
typically save $1.64 per square foot annually, equivalent to
more than $125 million portfolio-wide.
•	Engaging 950 tenants to save energy through its Hines GREEN
OFFICE® (HinesGO®) program. The program draws on the
ENERGY STAR Bring Your Green to Work initiative and has
resulted in the designation of more than 42 million square feet
as GREEN OFFICE space.
•	Implementing the first annual East Region ENERGY STAR Score
Improvement Challenge to identify the property that achieves
the highest percent increase in its ENERGY STAR score over a
12-month period.
•	Demonstrating a commitment to ENERGY STAR programs
through the Hines ENERGY STAR Management Group (ESMG).
The group meets monthly to review company initiatives and
progress, collaborate with EPA representatives, and release the
ESMG Newsletter to all building managers and engineers.
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J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
Piano, Texas
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (J.C. Penney) is a $19 billion
retailer with more than 1,100 department stores in the
United States and Puerto Rico. J.C. Penney is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for continuing its strong commitment to energy
efficiency in the face of unprecedented change across the
entire company structure. In order to do this, the energy
team had to regroup and turn their focus to low-cost
efficiency improvements and conservation programs,
which turned out to be very successful. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Improving average weather normalized source energy
use by 5.2 percent. This increase was achieved in spite
of the fact that the company completed 680 major
renovations in three months and opened Sephoras in 75
stores, which, when combined, represent a 1.2-percent
increase compared to J.C. Penney's 2011 electricity
load.
•	Certifying an additional 106 stores in 2012 for a total
of 384 stores that have earned the ENERGY STAR. This
means the company is on track to achieve its goal of
400 stores certified by 2014.
•	Entering 100 stores as competitors in EPA's 2012
ENERGY STAR National Building Competition and
supporting Hamilton Middle School in Memphis,
Tennessee with its participation in the competition.
•	Reinventing its employee engagement and
empowerment program, Energy Management
Awareness Program (EMAP). Part of EMAP is a series of
eight training videos on energy awareness, which were
viewed more than 2,500 times.
•	Working with several leading utilities around the
country to support their exploration of the merits of
including behavior-based energy management projects
in their demand-side management incentive programs.
Jones Lang
LaSalle*
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Jones Lang LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) is a professional services
and investment management firm offering specialized
real estate services to clients seeking increased value
by owning, occupying, and investing in real estate.
Through its client services, JLL manages a portfolio of
approximately 2.6 billion square feet worldwide. JLL is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its dedication to driving energy
savings across clients' portfolios and communicating
energy management successes with ENERGY STAR to
its employees, tenants, and the community. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Benchmarking nearly 100 percent of eligible properties
in Portfolio Manager, which includes more than 1,200
buildings representing about 170 million square feet of
space. Continuing to realize additional energy savings,
despite already maintaining a high-performing portfolio
with an average ENERGY STAR score of 76. The
company cut its source energy intensity by an additional
6.6 percent in 2012 across 170 million square feet of its
managed properties.
•	Expanding the promotion of ENERGY STAR through
high-level media placements, social media, thought
leadership blog posts, public forums, discussions with
high-ranking government officials, reports, presentations
to clients, and consistent outreach to its employees,
prospects, and tenants.
•	Supporting ENERGY STAR initiatives including water
conservation and the effort to expand ENERGY STAR
into the real estate brokerage community.
•	Participating in EPA's 2012 ENERGY STAR National
Building Competition with 16 buildings, and expanding
its use of social media (e.g. blogs, Twitter, Linkedln) to
create a global forum for ENERGY STAR discussions.
•	Serving as both a sponsor and panelist at the 2012
ENERGY STAR Commercial & Industrial Buildings
Partner Meeting.
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Kohl's Department Stores, Inc.
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
As a family-focused, value-oriented specialty department store,
Kohl's Department Stores, Inc. (Kohl's) operates more than 1,140
stores in 43 states. Kohl's is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of
the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its continued
commitment to seeking innovative solutions to improve energy
efficiency while demonstrating the value of environmental
stewardship to customers and the general public. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Actively pursuing ENERGY STAR certification for its stores. In
2012, Kohl's certified 75 stores for a companywide total of 752
stores that have earned the ENERGY STAR.
•	Surpassing its goal of achieving a 2-percent improvement in
energy efficiency by the end of 2012 by achieving a 2.5-percent
reduction on a Btu-per-square-foot basis.
•	Focusing on achieving energy savings through operations,
including re-commissioning HVAC units at 114 stores,
conducting energy audits at 58 stores, and actively monitoring
alerts sent by the energy management system to warn of
excessive energy use at the store level.
•	Displaying the ENERGY STAR on all stores that have earned
certification.
•	Using social media, internal- and external-facing websites,
and innovative educational tactics to engage employees and
customers and raise awareness of energy efficiency and Kohl's
partnership with ENERGY STAR.
•	Surveying top suppliers on their sustainability initiatives and
offering training webinars for vendors on how to develop
successful sustainability programs within their own companies.
In addition, Kohl's pairs vendors with their own sustainability
team to collaborate on ways to achieve continuous
improvement over time.
Loudoun County Public Schools
Ashburn, Virginia
As the fourth largest school system in the Commonwealth of
Virginia, Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is a rapidly
growing district that instructs more than 68,000 students at
13 high schools, 14 middle schools, 53 elementary schools, a
technology center, and an alternative education school that
together cover more than 9.6 million square feet. LCPS is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for its continued commitment to increasing energy
efficiency through the creation of an energy-saving culture among
students, staff members, and parents. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
• Benchmarking district facilities in Portfolio Manager, EPA's
ENERGY STAR measurement and tracking tool, and earning
ENERGY STAR certification for 42 district facilities.
•	Achieving recognition as an ENERGY STAR Top Performer.
•	Earning Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR designation for six
schools: Lunsford Middle School, Douglas Elementary School,
Champe High School, Discovery Elementary School, Moorefield
Station Elementary School, and Trailside Middle School.
•	Encouraging regional use of the Master Account Sharing
feature in Portfolio Manager through speaking events and
presentations promoting the tool. LCPS's efforts have been
influential in regional decisions to use this feature.
•	Saving more than $47 million and preventing the emissions of
more than 265,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over the past
19 years.
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M MERCK
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Merck
Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
Merck is a global, research-based pharmaceutical
and healthcare company with a vision to be "the most
energy-efficient company in the pharmaceutical industry
and a leader among FORTUNE 500 companies." Merck
has a successful energy and sustainability program that
continues to reach high levels of performance. Merck is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its leadership in energy
management and strategic focus on helping others
improve to world class status for energy management. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
•	Achieving a 6-percent energy intensity reduction for
its U.S. operations and 4.3 percent globally compared
to 2011. Since 2010, Merck's U.S. operations have
improved by 10 percent while, globally, the company
reached 6.7 percent.
•	Maintaining EPA's ENERGY STAR certification for
three manufacturing sites and three office buildings
while achieving certification for the first time for two
additional buildings to increase the size of Merck's
portfolio of ENERGY STAR certified facilities.
•	Assisting ENERGY STAR Partner Colgate-Palmolive
to develop and pilot test a new manufacturing plant
energy assessment process in two of its plants. To date,
Merck's own internal "treasure hunt" plant assessment
program has identified over $12 million in potential
energy savings from just five plants, representing a
reduction equivalent to 20 percent of the company's
total greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal.
•	Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and
EPA to host a meeting with Colgate-Palmolive in the
New Jersey region to introduce manufacturers to
ENERGY STAR industrial energy management resources.
•	Registering nine Merck European sites in EPA's ENERGY
STAR Challenge for Industry.
•	Educating children, employees, industries, communities
and other stakeholders through strategic communication
outreach on energy efficiency and how ENERGY STAR
can help them save energy and protect the environment.
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New York-Presbyterian Hospital
NewYork, NewYork
Based in New York City, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
(NYP) is the nation's largest nonprofit, non-sectarian
hospital with 2,333 beds. Its four major campuses
encompass 33 buildings and 8.6 million square feet,
making it among the top two percent of energy users in
the New York City metropolitan area. NYP is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for its ongoing commitment to comprehensive
energy management. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Increasing its portfolio-wide average ENERGY STAR
energy performance score by 12 points compared to its
2010 score.
•	Improving its average annual source energy intensity by
2.2 kBtu per square foot, an improvement of more than
100 million kBtu across its portfolio.
•	Achieving over $2.1 million in energy cost savings by
implementing a chiller plant operations and district
cooling optimization program to determine the most
efficient sequence of operations.
•	Recruiting more than 200 "Green Champions" to
encourage environmentally friendly practices throughout
the organization, including best practices from EPA's
Bring Your Green to Work initiative.
•	Educating employees, patients, and the general
public about energy efficiency and NYP's ENERGY
STAR partnership through its website, onsite Earth
Day events, energy fairs, speaking opportunities, and
interviews.
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NISSAN
Nissan North America, Inc.
Franklin, Tennessee
Nissan North America, Inc. is the manufacturing and operations
headquarters for Nissan in the United States and Mexico. Nissan
is committed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions through its
products and throughout all activities related to the enterprise,
actively applying ENERGY STAR guidance to support this goal.
Nissan is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for the continued improvement of its
energy management practices and performance. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Improving enterprise energy intensity by 8.3 percent compared
to 2011 and 26.5 percent since 2009.
•	Forming the Nissan Green Program 2016 to focus on reducing
the company's carbon footprint by impacting carbon dioxide
emissions from manufacturing and non-manufacturing and
through improved management performance indicators to lead
major decision making throughout the company.
•	Funding of several significant energy saving projects including
modifications to paint booths and ovens, waste heat recovery,
air cascading/recycling and replacing the use of compressed air
blow-off equipment with more efficient blowers. The projects
accounted for over 32 percent of the FY 2012 global capital
budget for supporting reduction targets.
Joining forces with ENERGY STAR partner Toyota to assist a
jointly held supplier by conducting a plant energy assessment
at the supplier's site.
Sharing engineering expertise to assist four additional schools
in Mississippi for a total of 10 to achieve EPA's ENERGY STAR
certification; savings from this work equate to preserving seven
teacher salaries in 2012.
Supporting a meeting of manufacturers, utilities and others
in the Indiana region to introduce manufacturers to ENERGY
STAR'S industrial energy management resources.
Promoting energy efficiency among the motor vehicle and
metalcasting industries by supporting EPA's ENERGY STAR
Focuses on Energy Efficiency in Metalcasting and Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing.
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PepsiCo, Inc.
Purchase, New York
PepsiCo, Inc. is a leading global food and beverage company that
operates a range of manufacturing facilities across multiple food
and beverage processing sectors. PepsiCo is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for
its continued commitment to promoting the value of strong energy
management practices and the ENERGY STAR program throughout
the business community. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Improving the energy performance of its legacy operations by
nearly 3 percent while integrating a beverage business for a
combined improvement of roughly 1 percent. If PepsiCo had not
improved energy efficiency, the company would have spent over
$40 million more on energy in 2012.
•	Supporting development of ENERGY STAR industrial energy
service and product providers by completing Teaming Profiles to
share successful energy projects.
•	Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and EPA
to host a meeting in the Texas region to introduce local
manufacturers to ENERGY STAR industrial energy management
resources.
•	Evaluating its energy and carbon value chains for opportunities
to reduce the impact of the company's product lines. PepsiCo's
research into potato breeding and fertilizer usage is producing
promising results that may reduce the use of fertilizer produced
by energy intensive processes and has resulted in significant
increases in potato yield, solids, and storage life. Improved
yields and solids content translates directly to less land, water,
pesticides, fertilizer, and fuel needed to grow the same amount
of potatoes. Better and longer storage lifetimes allows for
fewer potatoes to be shipped over fewer miles.
•	Carrying out projects targeted at energy efficiency in the
beverages division including annual savings of $624,000 from
lighting upgrades and nearly $400,000 from new refrigeration
controls. Other projects involved increased thermal recovery,
improved heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, and more
efficient air compressors.
•	Showing leadership for ENERGY STAR initiatives in the
food processing sectors by encouraging suppliers and other
companies to participate in EPA's ENERGY STAR Focus on
Energy Efficiency in Food Processing.
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Raytheon Company
Waltham, Massachusetts
Raytheon Company is a technology and innovation
leader specializing in defense, homeland security,
and other government markets. With over 71,000
employees throughout the world, employee engagement,
development of energy champion networks and assisting
other organizations are the key strategies of Raytheon's
energy management program. Raytheon is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for continuing its expansion of employee
networks and improved energy performance. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Reducing energy intensity by 3 percent over the past
year and absolute energy consumption by 12 percent
since 2008.
•	Building upon its strong energy culture to create over
38,000 employee "Energy Citizens for Life" committed to
promoting energy best practices.
•	Implementing over 200 energy projects that will
collectively avoid an estimated $3 million annually in
energy costs.
•	Developing a continuous commissioning initiative
to optimize heating, ventilation, and cooling system
operations.
•	Integrating energy findings and activities into a lean
manufacturing competition to further engage employees
and align with leadership expectations.
•	Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and
EPA to host a meeting in the Massachusetts region to
introduce local manufacturers to EPA's ENERGY STAR
industrial energy management resources.
•	Adding a communications expert to each business'
energy team to further develop strategies and tactics for
stronger energy communications across the company.
•	Promoting EPA's ENERGY STAR resources to more than a
thousand organizations of all types and sizes.
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Saint-Gobain
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Saint-Gobain manufactures a range of building products,
high-performance materials, and glass containers at more
than 130 plants throughout North America. The company
also distributes building materials through 120 outlets in
the United States. Saint-Gobain is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for the sustained growth and continuous improvement
of energy management across its operations. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Reducing energy intensity by 3 percent, an amount
equivalent to the energy required to produce insulation
for about 147,000 typical homes. Since 2008, the
company has improved energy intensity by 14.9 percent.
•	Working with EPA and its ENERGY STAR Focus
Industries to share ideas and promote energy
benchmarking of the company's various energy-
consuming operations. Interaction with the ENERGY
STAR Focus on Energy Efficiency in Pharmaceutical
Manufacturing led Saint-Gobain to form an internal
working group focused on improvements in cleanroom
efficiency. This model is being promoted across the
company's other business units and divisions.
•	Communicating the value of EPA's ENERGY STAR
resources for manufacturers among a variety of
audiences, including manufacturers, state energy
offices, carbon management specialists, and policy
groups.
•	Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and
EPA to host a meeting in the Indiana region to introduce
local manufacturers to ENERGY STAR industrial energy
management resources.
•	Promoting energy and carbon management within
the company's value chain by sharing energy saving
ideas for employees and by providing an online carbon
calculator for customers.
•	Maintaining EPA's ENERGY STAR certification for
three container glass plants in the United States and
demonstrating best-in-class energy performance in
these facilities.
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SEARS HOLDINGS
Sears Holdings Corporation
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Sears Holdings Corporation is a leading integrated retailer with
over 2,600 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United
States and Canada. Sears Holdings is the top home appliance
retailer as well as a leader in tools, lawn and garden, fitness
equipment and automotive repair and maintenance. This year,
the company is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year -
Sustained Excellence recognition for both its role as a retailer of
ENERGY STAR certified products and for energy management in
its stores. Sears Holdings Corporation demonstrates impressive
commitment to providing a wide-array of ENERGY STAR products
and services, along with superior energy management across its
building portfolio, coupled with enhanced associate and consumer
education to drive awareness and adoption of energy efficiency
and climate protection. Sears Holdings Corporation's longstanding
efforts exemplify an ongoing commitment to leverage its retail
capabilities for maximum energy efficiency in the marketplace.
Key 2012 energy management accomplishments include:
• Earning the ENERGY STAR for an additional 158 buildings, for a
cumulative total of 448 certified buildings.
•	Hosting a four-month energy efficiency competition among
distribution centers. In the end, these distribution centers
reduced their electricity consumption by 5,000,000 kWh, or 6.4
percent.
•	Reducing total weather normalized energy use by 7.1 percent
across its entire building portfolio.
•	Expanding the use of a vendor sustainability scorecard to gauge
the integration of sustainability programs within 150 vendor
companies.
•	Partnering with utilities across the country to continue its
corporate commitment to promoting energy efficiency in the
marketplace—both for products and buildings.
•	Continuing to promote its commitment to sustainability through
the comprehensive sustainability websites www.sears.green
and www.kmart.green that offer consumers insights into Sears
Holdings Corporation's comprehensive commitment to energy
efficiency throughout its entire organization—from its facilities
to its products.
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Staples, Inc.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Staples, Inc. (Staples) is the world's largest office products
company, with $25 billion in annual sales and 90,000 associates
employed in 26 countries. Staples is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its
strong, corporate-level commitment to energy management
and its continued enthusiasm and innovation in promoting the
ENERGY STAR program to associates and customers. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Improving portfolio-wide average weather normalized source
energy by 4.4 percent.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR Leaders recognition for improving
portfolio-wide energy use by 16.9 percent since the beginning
of its partnership with ENERGY STAR.
•	Actively pursuing ENERGY STAR certification for its facilities
and receiving ENERGY STAR certification for 372 facilities, for a
cumulative total of 500 facilities earning the ENERGY STAR.
•	Promoting energy efficiency and the company's partnership with
ENERGY STAR to associates, customers, and other businesses.
Staples holds monthly webinars for staff members, produces
a series of educational videos, and sends senior leadership to
speak on behalf of ENERGY STAR at industry and government
events.
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The Boeing Company
Chicago, Illinois
The Boeing Company, the world's largest aerospace
corporation, has well-integrated energy management
strategies that are driving the corporation toward a more
energy-efficient and sustainable future. Boeing is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for the continued improvement of its energy
management practices arid performance. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Improving energy intensity by 18.5 percent in 2012,
equivalent to an 82,000 rnrnBtu energy consumption
reduction.
•	Building a strong internal energy management team
across the company by supporting Boeing engineers to
achieve professional training and certification as
Certified Energy Managers through the Association of
Energy Engineers.
Investing $6.5 million in energy efficiency in 2012,
including such projects as reducing the heated dry
time for an aircraft painting process by 50 percent and
optimizing data center operations to use 40 percent less
energy to operate.
Coordinating with utilities, other manufacturers, and
EPA to host a meeting in the Seattle region to introduce
manufacturers to EPA's ENERGY STAR industrial energy
management resources.
Achieving EPA's ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry for
a third time at Boeing's Long Beach, California facility
for a total improvement in energy efficiency of more
than 50 percent.
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TIAA-CREF
New York, New York
As one of the nation's largest institutional real estate
investors, TIAA-CREF's investments include more than
35 million square feet of Class A office space, 13,200
multifamily units, 10 million square feet of retail
properties, and investments in other real estate types.
TIAA-CREF is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
- Sustained Excellence recognition for its dedication to
superior energy management across its portfolio. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Benchmarking the energy and water use of 100 percent
of its office, multifamily, and wholly owned retail
portfolios in Portfolio Manager, and working with each
management team to develop a target ENERGY STAR
score and provide recommended energy and water
efficiency measures, technical guidance, and support for
implementation.
•	Reducing source energy intensity across its portfolios,
including a three-percent reduction in its office portfolio,
a 4.8-percent reduction in its multifamily portfolio, and a
2.6-percent reduction in its retail portfolio.
Maintaining a portfolio-wide average ENERGY STAR
score of 80 in its office portfolio. Since 2007, TIAA-
CREF has reduced the energy consumption of its office
portfolio by 16.7 percent, achieving its 2012 goal of a
15-percent energy reduction and saving $51 million in
cumulative energy expenses.
Earning ENERGY STAR certification for more than 90
percent of its current office portfolio, with a present
total of 85 buildings that have earned certification one
or more times since 1999.
Launching the Global Real Estate Sustainability
Initiative (GRESI), with ENERGY STAR embedded in all
aspects of TIAA-CREF's program, including strategy,
implementation, tracking, and recognition.
Promoting ENERGY STAR broadly by the use of
quarterly reports, communications with third-party
property managers and building engineers, giveaways
to tenants, participation in real estate industry groups,
and partnerships with organizations working to promote
environmentally and socially responsible real
estate investments.
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TOYOTA
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Erlanger, Kentucky
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
is the manufacturing headquarters for 15 vehicle, engine, and
parts plants across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Energy and carbon emissions management are critical pieces of
the company's sustainability efforts. Toyota is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for the promotion of energy management among manufacturing
industries and for continued support of the ENERGY STAR
program. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Attaining a 21 percent reduction in energy intensity arid a 3
percent reduction in absolute energy consumption over the past
year. Energy savings in 2012 equate to the electricity required
to power 27,000 homes for a year.
•	Providing leadership for energy management within the
metalcasting and motor vehicle industries through EPA's
ENERGY STAR Focuses on Energy Efficiency in Metalcasting
and Motor Vehicle Assembly.
Demonstrating the value of plant energy assessments through
its successful Treasure Hunt system. In the energy-intensive
process of auto painting, the company was able to identify
over $2 million in new savings despite its long-standing plant
assessment program. Two paint booth projects, replacing
standard year-round set points with seasonal set-points and
reducing down drafts, resulted in significant fuel and electricity
savings.
Achieving EPA's ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry for 10
plants and earning EPA's ENERGY STAR certification for two of
its auto assembly plants.
Joining forces with ENERGY STAR Partner Nissan to assist a
jointly held supplier by conducting a plant energy assessment
at the supplier's site. Toyota trains suppliers in energy
assessment and encourages them to join ENERGY STAR and to
take EPA's ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry.
TRANSWESTERN
TRANSWESTERN
Houston, Texas
Transwestern is a privately held real estate firm specializing
in agency leasing, property and facilities management,
tenant advisory capital markets, development, research, and
sustainability. The firm currently oversees the leasing and
management of more than 283 million square feet of commercial
real estate nationwide. Transwestern is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for
demonstrating a commitment to continuous improvement through
the enhancement and expansion of its energy management
programs, including the use of ENERGY STAR tools and resources.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Sustaining year-to-year savings by maintaining an average
ENERGY STAR score of 81 across its managed office portfolio
of more than 350 buildings.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR certification for 147 buildings.
•	Launching the GOOD, BETTER ... BEST (GBB) Sustainability
Standard Practices program, which incorporates ENERGY STAR
scores as the first-ranking criteria and provides a method for
office and industrial buildings to measure their sustainability
performance, as well as concrete steps for improvement.
•	Implementing a policy that requires benchmarking all eligible
assets upon acquisition.
•	Conducting a second portfolio-wide sustainability survey,
with notable achievements including an eight percent energy
improvement as compared to 2011 survey results, and the
compilation of water data.
•	Facilitating improved compliance for Transwestern's monthly
metered utility data update requirement by initiating the
Summit Energy Pilot program with a third-party energy service
provider.
•	Spreading the word about energy efficiency and ENERGY
STAR through social media, posting case studies, maintaining
building profiles, and speaking at conferences nationwide.
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USAA Real Estate Company
San Antonio, Texas
With more than $12 billion in assets under management,
USAA Real Estate Company provides co-investment,
acquisition, arid development services across the United
States for corporate and institutional investors. USAA Real
Estate Company is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year -Sustained Excellence recognition for continuing
to find new and creative opportunities to improve energy
efficiency in its diverse portfolio of high-performing
properties. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Achieving a portfolio-wide average benchmarking score
of 90, across a portfolio of office, hotel, and multifamily
properties. More than 90 percent of its office portfolio
is currently ENERGY STAR certified or eligible for
certification.
•	Reducing energy consumption by 3.4 percent in 2012,
for a cumulative energy savings of 43 percent and $20
million in energy costs saved since 2000.
•	Focusing on operational excellence by making low- and
no-cost changes, as well as some capital investments—
saving more than $2.2 million in 2012 across the USAA
enterprise and portfolios.
•	Achieving a 12-15 percent energy reduction for each
of four buildings at the midpoint of EPAs 2012 ENERGY
STAR National Building Competition.
•	Sharing best practices on tenant engagement in the
Occupancy Engagement for Sustainability report as
part of the company's relationship with Sustainability
Roundtable.
•	Reducing its average source energy intensity by 131.2
kBtu per square foot in 2012, representing a 38-percent
reduction.
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Ivey Residential, LLC
Evans, Georgia
Ivey Residential, LLC, an ENERGY STAR partner since 2006,
continues to build 100 percent of its homes to ENERGY
STAR requirements. Through smart implementation
and marketing efforts, the business has fostered an
appreciation for the value of ENERGY STAR to customers
throughout the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) home-
buying community and beyond. Ivey Residential, LLC is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for leading the way in energy
efficiency and sustainability in new home construction.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Promoting ENERGY STAR widely in its markets through
print advertisements in local media and billboards, as
well as prominently featuring ENERGY STAR on its
website.
•	Providing in-house training on ENERGY STAR
specifications to field superintendents, operational staff,
and HVAC contractors to ensure that their knowledge of
all requirements were current.
•	Providing extensive ENERGY STAR training and a library
of educational and marketing resources to real estate
agents.
•	Establishing a "Behind-the-Walls" room in Sales
Centers to enhance explanation of ENERGY STAR
benefits to homebuyers.
•	Continually innovating on techniques and solutions
to achieve ENERGY STAR requirements by analyzing,
developing, and testing various combinations of building
techniques and products.
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KB Home
Los Angeles, California
With operations in 30 markets across the United States, KB Home
is one of the nation's Top Ten production home builders. KB Home
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for continuing to lead the new construction industry
toward market transformation through its commitment to ENERGY
STAR. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Building more than 6,200 ENERGY STAR certified homes, for a
total of more than over 74,000 certified homes since partnering
with ENERGY STAR in 2000.
•	Working with its purchasing and construction staff members,
trade partners, and independent energy raters for the roll-out of
new ENERGY STAR specifications company-wide.
•	Featuring education displays at sales offices and KB Home
Studios - large retail-like showrooms-that highlight the value
of ENERGY STAR certified homes.
•	Running two Facebook-based sweepstakes where homeowners
provided testimonials on their ENERGY STAR certified home
energy cost savings.
•	Earning over 396,000,000 impressions and circulations and 438
media hits on media coverage that referenced ENERGY STAR
certified homes and products.
•	Hosting professional groups at KB Home's ZeroHouse 2.0
model homes, including attendees of the ENERGY STAR Utility
Sponsors Meeting in Anaheim; every ZeroHouse or solar-
powered home built starts with an ENERGY STAR
certified home.
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Meritage Homes
Scottsdale, Arizona
Meritage Homes, one of the largest builders in the country, has
championed the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes program as the
baseline for every home it builds, and incorporates ENERGY
STAR throughout its marketing and sales materials. Meritage
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its commitment to educating its
employees, industry stakeholders, and the public about the value
and benefits of energy efficiency. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
• Augmenting its mandatory sales training programs with an
advanced energy efficiency course and a Continuous Education
Course for Realtors® highlighting the features and benefits of
ENERGY STAR.
•	Building nearly 28,000 ENERGY STAR certified homes since its
beginning its participation with the program in 2001.
•	Offering cost-effective NET ZERO homes, and championing all
three EPA home labels: ENERGY STAR, Indoor airPLUS, and
WaterSense.
•	Educating homebuyers about the value and benefits of
advanced building and its ENERGY STAR certified homes at its
over 85 Learning Centers throughout the U.S.
•	Training suppliers, traders, and staff on ENERGY STAR
requirements and other Meritage advanced building practices
at mandatory management training days atall of its divisions.
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PRODUCT MANUFACTURER
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Andersen Corporation
Bayport, Minnesota
Andersen Corporation, a privately owned window and
door manufacturer, is known for its 110-year history
of leadership in energy-efficient products. Andersen is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its commitment to promoting
the ENERGY STAR program and its goals nationwide by
helping Andersen employees, dealers, and retailers to
advocate for energy efficiency and to educate consumers
on the benefits of choosing ENERGY STAR products. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
• Improving all product qualification efforts, including
ensuring that all product lines offered in 2012 were
ENERGY STAR qualified with either standard or
upgrade options.
•	Achieving remarkable sales of ENERGY STAR certified
products, which comprised 32 percent of Andersen's
total 2012 sales.
•	Adding the most popular ENERGY STAR certified
products to the Andersen product ordering software,
which more than 8,000 dealer locations across the
country use on a daily basis.
•	Training 100 percent of new and existing Andersen
employees and 80 percent of retailer and distributor
employees on the importance of ENERGY STAR.
•	Obtaining more than one billion new impressions in
2012 by building upon company-created tools used to
inform consumers about energy efficiency and ENERGY
STAR certified products.
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Bosch Home Appliances Corporation
Irvine, California
Bosch Home Appliances (Bosch) is part of Bosch and
Siemens Home (BSH) Appliances Corporation, a global
manufacturer of household appliances sold under the
Bosch, Thermador, and Gaggenau brands in the United
States. Bosch is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of
the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its
commitment to designing and promoting ENERGY STAR
certified appliances. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Achieving ENERGY STAR certification for 100 percent
of its Bosch brand major appliances, including clothes
washers, dishwashers, and refrigerators.
•	Offering the most energy- and water-efficient
dishwashers in the United States and Canada. These
appliances use ActiveWaterTM technology to consume
less than three gallons of water per load and exceed
the current federal energy standard by an average of 31
percent across the entire product line.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR through tradeshows
and presentations, co-marketing and cooperative
promotions, community outreach activities, print
advertising, and point-of-purchase efforts—garnering
more than 700 million impressions.
•	Educating consumers and sales associates with two
new training centers: the Design and Experience
Center in Irvine, California; and a training center in the
groundbreaking sustainable Serenbe community in
Atlanta, Georgia. Both centers provide an opportunity to
educate visitors on the importance of the ENERGY STAR
program.
•	Continuing to offer dedicated website content on the
benefits of ENERGY STAR, with "Green Technology
Inside" demonstrating Bosch's commitment to
sustainability and the ENERGY STAR program.
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GE Lighting
Fairfield, Connecticut
GE Lighting (GE) is an industry leader in energy-efficient lighting
with continued investment in energy-saving technologies that
offer the features and benefits that consumers expect. GE
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its strong commitment to ENERGY
STAR and its exemplary efforts in product certification, promotion,
education and training. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Adding 101 ENERGY STAR certified LED light bulbs to its
selection, representing an increase of more than 100 percent
from 2011 and bringing GE's total number of ENERGY STAR
certified bulbs to 607.
•	Introducing an innovative ENERGY STAR certified hybrid bulb,
Bright from the Start™, which combines CFL and halogen
technologies to deliver instant brightness.
•	Training more than 4,000 people on ENERGY STAR certified
lighting through conferences and workshops at the GE Lighting
Institute, including sales representatives, retailers, consultants,
and distributors.
•	Educating nearly 9,000 people at more than 140 events
regarding ENERGY STAR certified light bulbs through its
tradeshow on wheels, "The GE Lighting Revolution" tour.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR certified light bulbs in conjunction
with the movie release of "Dr. Seuss* The Lorax"; GE's
promotional efforts included special in-store displays, online
and social media promotion, and incentives for purchasing
ENERGY STAR certified CELs.
•	Collaborating with 98 utility partners to offer more than 300
retail promotions for ENERGY STAR certified lighting.
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ITW Food Equipment Group
Troy, Ohio
ITW Food Equipment Group, LLC—the parent organization of
independent companies including Hobart, Traulsen, Stero, Vulcan,
Wittco, and Wolf—designs and manufactures commercial
equipment for foodservice and food retail customers. ITW Food
Equipment Group is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
- Sustained Excellence recognition for its continued industry
leadership, demonstrated by its development of a full suite of
energy-efficient commercial food equipment; active engagement
and support of the ENERGY STAR specification and test method
development process; and promotion of the benefits of ENERGY
STAR certified equipment to all affected stakeholders. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Offering 512 ENERGY STAR certified products across seven
categories—representing an increase of 40 percent in the
total number of ENERGY STAR certified products. More than 60
percent of ITW Food Equipment Group's entire product line is
ENERGY STAR certified.
•	Developing an innovative energy recovery technology for
warewasher models that significantly reduces their energy and
water consumption, saving users between $500 and $2,000 per
year.
•	Promoting the benefits of ENERGY STAR to industry
professionals through the training of its commercial food
service sales force, restaurant equipment dealers, distributers,
sales representatives, and food service consultants.
•	Educating consumers and end-users about the advantages of
using ENERGY STAR certified equipment and the benefits of
energy efficiency, water savings, and waste management, and
sharing customer best practices for achieving such benefits.
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Manitowoc Foodservice
New Port Richey, Florida
Manitowoc Foodservice, a division of The Manitowoc
Company, Inc., is a world leader in innovative foodservice
kitchen and restaurant equipment solutions. Manitowoc
Foodservice designs, manufactures, and supplies food and
beverage equipment for the global foodservice market.
The company has a portfolio of brands including Delfield®,
Frymaster®, Garland®, and Manitowoc® Ice. Manitowoc
Foodservice is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its continued
leadership in having the most products qualified. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Offering 556 ENERGY STAR certified products across the
seven commercial food service product categories.
•	Introducing product innovations in its warewashers,
fryers, and ice machines that increase efficiency and
lower the total cost of ownership.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR through print media and
tradeshows, generating more than one million
impressions.
•	Incorporating ENERGY STAR into training for its dealers,
end-users, servicers, consultants, and distributors for all
of its product lines.
•	Working with new ENERGY STAR dealer partners to
help them understand the program, stock ENERGY STAR
certified products, and promote their partnerships.
ideas for life
Panasonic Eco Solutions North America
Secaucus, New Jersey
Panasonic Eco Solutions North America (PESNA), a
unit company of Panasonic North America, offers a
comprehensive line of high-performance ventilation fans.
All of PESNAs fans avoid the use of toxic substances
and all fans in eligible categories are ENERGY STAR
certified. Many models incorporate energy-saving control
features such as occupancy and humidity sensors. In
2012, PESNA again showed its leadership by building
on its long-standing commitment to advancing energy
efficiency. Specifically, PESNA is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for contributing to advances in residential ventilation
through product innovation and outreach to consumers and
contractors. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Maintaining a broad array of ENERGY STAR certified
vent fans, with all models in applicable categories
qualifying and 90 percent of PESNAs sales dollars
earned from these models.
•	Continuing to offer some of the most energy-efficient
products on the market with a line of DC motor-driven
fans.
•	Introducing the innovative WhisperRecessed fan,
incorporating a fan into an ENERGY STAR certified
down-light.
•	Expanding the reach of its ENERGY STAR messaging
with distributors and retailers by about 50 percent, to
more than 1.5 million impressions.
•	Expanding the reach of its ENERGY STAR point-
of-purchase efforts to reach more than 11 million
purchasers.
•	Sponsoring numerous whole-home-based education
efforts for industry and homeowners, including at trade
shows and with U.S. DOE programs, emphasizing the
potential of ventilation that delivers a healthier, more
energy-efficient home.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Suwon, South Korea
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung) is a digital leader
committed to developing innovative technologies and efficient
processes that support its mission of making life better for
consumers around the world. Samsung is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for its support of the ENERGY STAR specification development
process, leadership in marketing ENERGY STAR certified products,
and in community outreach to promote efficiency. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Offering more than 1,400 ENERGY STAR certified products and
almost 130 models recognized as ENERGY STAR Most Efficient
2012.
•	Coordinating with utilities and other energy efficiency program
sponsors to identify ENERGY STAR certified products that are
eligible for rebates and other related promotions.
Partnering with the Boys and Girls Club of America to create
more than a dozen opportunities for kids to learn about ENERGY
STAR through the "Change the World, Start with ENERGY
STAR" campaign, while developing important life skills.
Generating more than 100 million impressions through a Times
Square advertisement of Samsung's ENERGY STAR certified
products, point-of-purchase materials at retail locations, and
other ENERGY STAR-focused marketing efforts.
Informing 100 percent of Samsung's employees about its
commitment to ENERGY STAR and holding more than 5,000
distributor and retailer training events.
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Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Mooresville, North Carolina
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (Lowe's) is a FORTUNE® 50 company
with more than 1,745 home improvement stores in the United
States, Canada, and Mexico. Lowe's provides an ever-increasing
array of ENERGY STAR certified products and services, coupled
with enhanced consumer education to drive awareness of
climate protection through adoption of energy efficiency. Lowe's
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its unsurpassed strategic integration of
ENERGY STAR into all aspects of retail, from product assortment
to sales associate and consumer engagement, demonstrating the
company's ongoing commitment to the program and distinguishing
Lowe's as an industry leader. Key 2012 achievements include:
•	Growing the quantity and variety of ENERGY STAR certified
products available in stores nationwide and online in all eligible
categories. Highlights include carrying more in-stock ENERGY
STAR certified appliances and lighting than any other major
home improvement retailer, increasing the number of in-stock
ENERGY STAR certified ceiling fans by 31, including a new
ENERGY STAR certified LED model, featuring ENERGY STAR in
millworkwith a full line of certified vinyl windows and patio
doors, and investing in making its own brands, such as Kobalt
power tools and lighting, more energy efficient.
•	Providing exceptional customer service in energy efficiency by
expanding its nationwide training program to build knowledge
of ENERGY STAR among more than 234,000 employees—
including distribution center and corporate employees,
and store associates. The training program includes online
training, sales closing toolkits, vendor and utility partner-
provided training, as well as the following training materials:
Connections, Sales Planner, Event Resources, Lowe's Channel,
Lowedown, and Associate Mobile App, among others.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR and the benefits of ENERGY STAR
certified products through traditional media, such as television
and radio, print/direct mail, newspaper and circulars, as well
as press and online outreach that generated more than 5 billion
impressions. Highlights include the Yolanda Adams Morning
Show with 33 million air impressions and ongoing circular
features totaling 18 billion since 2001.
•	Hosting a 1.5-hour Twitter party on October 10, 2012 to
support ENERGY STAR Day and showcasing trivia and prizes
of $100 Lowe's gift cards during the party. ENERGY STAR was
mentioned 1,927 times on Twitter using #LowesEnergyStar
during the Twitter party, landing Lowe's in the top trending list
in the United States for one hour.
•	Overarching support of Change the World, Start with ENERGY
STAR including pledge outreach, hosting numerous events on
the ENERGY STARs Across America Map, and promotion of
Team ENERGY STAR and ENERGY STAR Day activities. Since
2006, Lowe's has driven enough pledges to save more than 9.4
million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions, 5.3 million kWh of
energy, and more than $752,000 through increased efficiency.
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SEARS HOLDINGS
Sears Holdings Corporation
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Sears Holdings Corporation is a leading integrated retailer
with over 2,600 full-line and specialty retail stores in
the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings is the top
home appliance retailer as well as a leader in tools, lawn
and garden, fitness equipment and automotive repair
and maintenance. This year, the company is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for both its role as a retailer of ENERGY
STAR certified products and for energy management
in its stores. Sears Holdings Corporation demonstrates
impressive commitment to providing a wide-array of
ENERGY STAR products and services, along with superior
energy management across its building portfolio, coupled
with enhanced associate and consumer education to drive
awareness and adoption of energy efficiency and climate
protection. Sears Holdings Corporation's longstanding
efforts exemplify an ongoing commitment to leverage its
retail capabilities for maximum energy efficiency in the
marketplace. Key 2012 retail accomplishments include:
• Increasing its selection of ENERGY STAR certified
products, including home appliances, consumer
electronics, a new emphasis on water heaters and
lighting, as well as a heightened commitment to
promoting ENERGY STAR certified consumer electronics.
•	Growing consumer engagement in the Change the
World, Start with ENERGY STAR campaign, with more
ENERGY STARs Across America events featuring in-store
shoppertainment activities for families, and promoting
Team ENERGY STAR with "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax."
•	Expanding its "Green Champions" best-in-class
associates training program.
•	Generating, once again, an impressive number of
ENERGY STAR logo impressions through national print
circulars and other vehicles for a total of 50 billion,
representing a 9-percent increase compared to 2011.
Combined with Sears Holdings Corporation's promotion
of ENERGY STAR through its ever-expanding social
media outreach, including both products and National
Building competition messaging, these outreach efforts
place Sears at the forefront of consumer engagement
with ENERGY STAR.
SERVICE AND PRODUCT PROVIDER
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The Energy Conservation Company
Cenergistic
Dallas, Texas
Cenergistic (formerly Energy Education, Inc.) is a technology-
powered, data-driven energy conservation company.
Cenergistic helps organizations reduce consumption
of electricity, natural gas, fuel oil and water. Its proven
approach is built on a proprietary methodology, which
optimizes clients' infrastructure, improves internal processes
and changes behavior to ensure that savings endure. This
approach allows Cenergistic clients, including school
districts, universities, community colleges, health care
organizations, and churches, to invest money saved back into
the lives they serve. Cenergistic is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for
its success capturing substantial long-term energy savings
for thousands of client buildings. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
• Earning ENERGY STAR certification for more than 790
client buildings in 2012, and for more than 4,500 client
buildings since 2000.
•	Helping clients save more than $349 million in energy
costs in 2012 alone, for a cumulative total of more than
$3 billion in the past 25 years.
•	Recruiting more than 130 new ENERGY STAR partners.
•	Supporting 85 K-12 school districts that achieved
ENERGY STAR Leaders recognition in 2012.
•	Facilitating client engagement with ENERGY STAR by
helping clients prepare and submit Partnership Letters,
set up Portfolio Manager accounts, and apply for
ENERGY STAR recognition.
•	Presenting a detailed overview of ENERGY STAR for
Buildings to more than 1,100 people.
•	Actively promoting ENERGY STAR to millions of children
in client locations through ENERGY STAR-branded
communications materials and by placing more than
a dozen news stories that featured Cenergistic and
ENERGY STAR.
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Ecova
Spokane, Washington
As a comprehensive energy and sustainability management
company, Ecova (formerly Advantage IQ, Inc.) provides fully
managed, technology-optimized solutions to its more than 700
clients at more than 600,000 sites in North America, including a
quarter of all Fortune 500 companies. Ecova is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition
for its continued commitment to integrating EPA's web-based
services into its offerings and encouraging clients to embed
ENERGY STAR into their energy management programs. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Benchmarking more than 38,000 buildings, including 105
which earned the ENERGY STAR in 2012 for superior energy
performance.
•	Delivering webinars to launch the Facility Optimization
campaign, which promotes Ecova's 25,000 client buildings
benchmarked in Portfolio Manager, and explaining how to
leverage ENERGY STAR to improve energy efficiency.
•	Using social media to promote ENERGY STAR tools and
resources to clients.
•	Promoting the ENERGY STAR program on the Ecova website,
blog, and in email blasts.
•	Delivering client newsletters that covered energy efficiency
strategies and provided opportunities to discuss ENERGY STAR
tools and resources to more than 4,000 contacts.
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EnergyCAP, Inc.
State College, Pennsylvania
EnergyCAP, Inc. (ECI) is an industry-leading publisher of online
and installed software that tracks, reports, analyzes, audits,
and benchmarks energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
ECI is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for making ENERGY STAR an integral
component of its software product offerings for a wide network
of customers and business partners. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
•	Providing benchmarking services to more than 9,000 customer
buildings in 2012, doubling the number of buildings that ECI
was previously benchmarking in Portfolio Manager.
•	Integrating ENERGY STAR benchmarking into all versions of its
software offerings.
•	Licensing these software products to more than 1,500
organizations—providing clients with the ability to earn
ENERGY STAR energy performance scores and introducing
clients to the broader suite of ENERGY STAR tools, resources,
and strategies.
•	Leveraging its expanded software offerings to enable clients to
earn the ENERGY STAR for more than 4,000 buildings.
•	Communicating the value of ENERGY STAR benchmarking
and recognition by including ENERGY STAR messaging in
all marketing materials, websites, social media, and sales
proposals, and promoting ENERGY STAR at industry seminars
and conferences.
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Servidyne
Atlanta, Georgia
Servidyne is an international energy management
company which provides its clients with comprehensive
programs that focus on energy efficiency, demand
response, and sustainability in order to significantly
enhance the operating, financial, and environmental
performance of existing buildings. The company serves
a broad range of markets in the United States, including
owners and operators of commercial office, hospitality,
retail, light industrial, distribution, healthcare, government,
and education facilities, as well as public and investor-
owned utilities. Servidyne is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for
continuing to champion ENERGY STAR and the central role
of benchmarking whole-building energy use in effectively
managing energy performance. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
• Providing assistance that helped more than 110 client
buildings earn the ENERGY STAR in 2012.
•	Achieving a more than 10-point increase in the ENERGY
STAR energy performance score of more than 50 client
buildings.
•	Implementing an integrated marketing campaign that
includes promoting ENERGY STAR in outreach materials.
•	Using Facebook and Linkedln to encourage the adoption
of ENERGY STAR.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR tools and resources at
multiple conferences and trade shows.
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Bssmrmsr Solutions Corp.
The E Group, a Division of FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.
Akron, Ohio
The E Group, a division of FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.,
is an energy consulting company that provides energy
management services to governmental and multisite
commercial and industrial clients across the United
States. The E Group is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of
the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for helping
clients to benchmark their buildings as a fundamental
step in comprehensive energy management. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Integrating ENERGY STAR benchmarking into the
eTrends reporting tool in order to provide more than
11,600 client buildings with regularly updated ENERGY
STAR energy performance scores.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR certification for 84 client
buildings and helping to improve the ENERGY STAR
score of 180 buildings by at least 10 points in 2012.
Giving clients a "one-stop shop" advantage by featuring
the ENERGY STAR program as a main attribute of their
demand side management, along with carbon footprint
analysis, energy efficiency audits, rebate services, and
renewable energy projects.
Raising awareness of ENERGY STAR by becoming
a pledge driver for the ENERGY STAR Challenge,
recruiting clients to participate in EPAs ENERGY STAR
National Building Competition, supporting clients' Earth
Day events by distributing ENERGY STAR materials, and
speaking about ENERGY STAR and the importance of
benchmarking at industry conferences and events.
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HOME ENERGY RATER
Energy Inspectors Corporation
Las Vegas, Nevada
As a residential energy efficiency consulting, home energy rating,
and residential construction quality assurance company, Energy
Inspectors evaluates the energy efficiency of thousands of homes
annually. Energy Inspectors is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner
of the Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its continued
home energy rating services in Arizona, California, and Nevada,
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Verifying over 7,500 ENERGY STAR certified homes m 2012,
totaling over 100,000 homes since 1938,
•	Introducing state-of-the-art inspection software, providing near
real-time updates to the ENERGY STAR certification process,
and communication with all stakeholder partners.
•	Striving to make participation by new homes builders in the
ENERGY STAR Certified Homes program as user friendly a
process as possible,
•	Designing and modeling two net zero homes for its clients,
•	Continuing to provide in-depth ENERGY STAR sales training
seminars for client sales and marketing teams.
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EnergyLogic
Berthoud, Colorado
Since its inception, EnergyLogic has been dedicated to the
ENERGY STAR program. Since the beginning of 2006, EnergyLogic
has directly verified more than 8,000 ENERGY STAR certified
homes throughout Colorado—roughly 49 percent of the total
homes verified in the state. Continuing to collaborate with its
network of homebuilders, energy raters, home performance
contractors, and program administrators, EnergyLogic is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
recognition for its continued support in the success of the
ENERGY STAR, Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Working directly with 23 builders across Colorado to support
the construction of 1,016 ENERGY STAR certified homes,
•	Certifying more than 250 raters since the company's start,
dozens of which are working in the ENERGY STAR program
today - in Colorado and beyond.
•	Acting as the Rating Provider for 66 HERS raters who have
verified an additional 1,024 ENERGY STAR certified homes
around the country,
•	Incorporating ENERGY STAR guidelines as a staple in its
curriculum, training 51 raters nationwide to-date via Web
based training,
•	Providing high-quality technical resources and support,
continuously updating and improving its turnkey data
management system to better serve the needs of ENERGY
STAR partners.
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SOUTHERNENERGY
MANAGEMENT
ENERGY EFFICIENCY & SOLAR POWER
Southern Energy Management
Morrisville, North Carolina
Southern Energy Management (SEM) is a sustainable
energy company offering services across the Southeast
and Mid-Atlantic. Reaching its 10,000 home mark for
rating ENERGY STAR certified homes in 2012, SEM
continues to be a strong proponent for the ENERGY STAR
program and is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
- Sustained Excellence recognition for helping to change
the way people use energy in their homes. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Verifying 1,928 ENERGY STAR certified homes in 2012,
totaling 11,698 homes since 2007.
•	Expanding its multifamily housing business, earning
ENERGY STAR certification for 16 multifamily affordable
housing projects, including 824 total units in North
Carolina and South Carolina.
•	Offering ENERGY STAR testing services to various
affordable housing developments across their service
area.
•	Providing technical support and program updates
through various newsletters and blogs, posting five
ENERGY STAR-focused articles in 2012, which alone
generated more than 800 page views.
•	Providing ENERGY STAR sales and marketing collateral
yard signs, brochures, labels, and staffing support to
builders participating in the annual green home tour.
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of Greater Nashville
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville provides an
opportunity for people to purchase quality, affordable
homes and has promoted the use of ENERGY STAR
certified products and the construction of ENERGY STAR
certified homes in its home building program since 2006.
By partnering selectively with vendors offering ENERGY
STAR certified products and equipment, Habitat of Greater
Nashville helps support ENERGY STAR while helping
homeowners save on monthly utility bills. Habitat of
Greater Nashville is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year - Sustained Excellence recognition for its continued
leadership in protecting the environment through energy
efficiency. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Building 41 new, affordable, ENERGY STAR certified
single-family homes for 183 family members —bringing
the total to 276.
•	Improving energy efficiency, as well as reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, by 42 percent compared to
non-ENERGY STAR certified homes of equal size
and type.
•	Enabling each family owning an ENERGY STAR certified
home to save approximately $840 in utility expenses on
average each year. Monthly utility bills average about
$80 for a 1,100 square foot ENERGY STAR certified
home.
•	Educating thousands of volunteers about ENERGY STAR,
as well as informing homeowners about sustainable
living and the importance of ongoing home maintenance
through its HomeWORKS educational program.
•	Pursuing every opportunity to incorporate the ENERGY
STAR logo and information about ENERGY STAR
certified homes into its outreach and promotional
materials, including all newsletters, brochures,
dedication programs, grant proposals, and the
organization website.
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of Metro Denver
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver
Denver, Colorado
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver (HFHMD) focuses on
building high-quality, energy-efficient homes to save low-income
homeowners hundreds of dollars each year on utility costs.
These energy savings increase the amount of funds homeowners
are able to utilize for other necessities such as food, medical
attention, and educational supplies for their children, thereby
helping families break the generational cycle of poverty. HFHMD
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained
Excellence recognition for its outstanding commitment to
providing energy-efficient, affordable housing and incorporating
ENERGY STAR products and building practices into their homes.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Completing 30 new ENERGY STAR certified homes in 2012,
providing permanent and affordable housing to more than 120
adults and children—100 percent of its homes are ENERGY
STAR certified.
•	Bringing the total number of ENERGY STAR certified new
homes built by HFHMD to 340, saving homeowners more than
$1.1 million over the life of the homes and reducing carbon
dioxide emissions by more than 30,000 metric tons.
•	Completing construction of homes that meet the new, more
stringent ENERGY STAR Version 3.0 requirements as well as
the requirements of EPAs Indoor airPLUS and WaterSense
programs,
•	Equipping all new ENERGY STAR certified homes with ENERGY
STAR certified products, including refrigerators, front-loading
clothes washers, and CFL bulbs in all light fixtures.
•	Educating homeowners, both before and after their homes are
built, on the energy efficiency features of their homes and how
to maximize their energy savings by properly operating and
maintaining their homes.
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Partner of the Year
ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM DELIVERY
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AEP Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
AEP Ohio, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, is an
electric utility that services nearly 1.5 million customers
in Ohio and the northern panhandle of West Virginia. In
2010, AEP Ohio began jointly administering an ENERGY
STAR Certified Homes program with Columbia Gas of
Ohio in the City of Columbus and in the Central Ohio
region. AEP Ohio expanded its portfolio of ENERGY STAR
program offerings the following year to promote a growing
suite of ENERGY STAR certified products with the goal of
achieving permanent, measurable increases in demand
for energy-efficient lighting and appliances. AEP Ohio is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition
for its commitment to sponsoring ENERGY STAR certified
homes and ENERGY STAR certified products. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Enrolling 77 builders and 21 raters and providing
incentives for more than 900 ENERGY STAR certified
homes, a 67-percent increase from 2011.
•	Generating 2,600 MWh of annual savings from ENERGY
STAR certified homes in its market.
•	Providing regular training opportunities to approximately
300 program participants, trade allies, and stakeholders,
including the innovative "Selling High Performance
Homes" training.
•	Encouraging the sale of more than 3.5 million ENERGY
STAR certified products, while also distributing ENERGY
STAR certified lighting to lower income customers in
partnership with the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.
•	Influencing the sale of more than 24,000 ENERGY STAR
certified appliances while permanently removing from
the grid and responsibly recycling 15,000 old, inefficient
refrigerators and freezers,
•	Conducting more than 50 in-store education events and
32 community outreach events, including seven ENERGY
STAR Day events to support "Change the World, Start
with ENERGY STAR."
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Columbia Gas of Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbia Gas of Ohio is the largest natural gas provider
in the state, serving over 1 million residential customers
in the Central Ohio region. From its program inception in
2010, it has established and administered a joint ENERGY
STAR Certified Homes program with AEP Ohio in an effort
to be a consistent market presence for homebuyers.
Columbia Gas of Ohio is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner
of the Year recognition for its commitment to sponsoring
ENERGY STAR certified homes. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
•	Enrolling 77 builders and 21 raters, and supporting
the construction of more than 900 new ENERGY STAR
certified homes in Columbus and in the central Ohio
region in the program's second year.
•	Providing regular training opportunities to program
participants, trade allies, and stakeholders, including
the innovative "Selling High Performance Homes"
training in support of ENERGY STAR Version 3.0.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR certified homes through
feature boards that specifically highlight the value of
incremental standards in homes that earn the ENERGY
STAR.
•	Continuing a robust quality assurance/quality control
process that includes reviewing rating files and field
inspections to establish consistency and confidence
in the energy savings and overall performance of
participating homes.
•	Collaborating with key affordable housing agencies to
help affordable housing developers comply with and
exceed energy efficiency and quality assurance goals.
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Dominion'
Dominion East Ohio
Richmond, Virginia
Dominion East Ohio (DEO), a natural gas utility provider based out
of Cleveland, OH, provides natural gas service to customers in
northeast Ohio, Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Warren, Ashtabula,
Wooster, New Philadelphia, Marietta, and Lima. DEO offers a
comprehensive assistance package to residential customers,
which is designed to increase awareness of and demand for
building performance contracting and the Home Performance
with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) program. Dominion East Ohio is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for its
successful implementation of the HPwES program in a new
market. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Staffing 11 full-time assessors arid supporting 120
participating contractors who average 105 home assessments
per week and approximately 50 test-outs per week.
Completing and performing QA inspections on 2,432 HPwES
projects, accounting for a 22 percent increase in production of
completed HPwES projects in 2012.
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El Paso Electric
El Paso, Texas
El Paso Electric is a regional electric utility, generating and
transmitting power to approximately 380,000 retail and wholesale
customers in a 10,000-square-mile area of the Rio Grande valley
in west Texas and southern New Mexico. El Paso Electric jointly
sponsors the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes program for this
market with the New Mexico Gas Company. El Paso Electric is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for its
successful delivery and promotion of ENERGY STAR certified
homes. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Supporting the construction of approximately 150 ENERGY
STAR certified homes, resulting in 225 MWh of energy savings.
•	Highlighting ENERGY STAR certified homes to thousands of
attendees as part of the Parade of Homes and other home and
garden shows.
•	Achieving an increase of 493 percent in customer participation
for completed jobs and an increase of 24 percent in the
number of participating contractors.
•	Saving an estimated 80,214 Mcfs, generated from measures
installed during the assessment and additional improvements
made after the assessment.
•	Developing a Community Enrichment Program (CEP) initiative
that engages over 40 nonprofit organizations to raise customer
awareness of and generate interest in participating in DEO's
program.
•	Offering rebates to customers on qualifying improvements.
Improvements can be installed by participating contractors or
through several select do-it-yourself (DIY) measures, which are
inspected by participating contractors to ensure compliance
and safety.
•	Incorporating the ENERGY STAR logo into all promotional
materials, including recruitment documents and
advertisements, and encouraqing builder partners to leverage
the ENERGY STAR brand.
•	Facilitating the transition to Version 3.0 through multiple
technical training sessions and classes for HVAC contractors,
raters, and realtor groups.
•	Holding 13 individual sales training sessions with
homebuilders, sales staff members, and realtors.
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Entergy Texas
Beaumont, Texas
Entergy Texas is an electric transmission and distribution
utility which serves customers in southeast Texas.
Since 2001, Entergy Texas has sponsored an ENERGY
STAR Certified Homes program, and in 2011 the utility
introduced a Home Performance with ENERGY STAR
program. Entergy Texas is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner
of the Year recognition for its continuing commitment to
the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes program. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Supporting 38 participating home builders in
constructing 400 ENERGY STAR certified homes,
resulting in over 493,000 kWh in energy savings.
•	Keeping local raters and contractors informed of Version
3.0 specification requirements through training courses,
an HVAC checklist seminar, and duct sealing and
insulation demonstrations.
•	Participating in more than 25 regional builder
association events, providing training to 85 realtors, and
conducting more than 50 meetings with raters, builders
and contractors.
•	Sponsoring the ENERGY STAR certification process for
the Southeast Texas Planning Commission which is
responsible for building 180 new homes for families
who lost their homes to Hurricane Ike in 2008.
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PECO Energy Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PECO Energy Company (PECO) is Pennsylvania's largest
utility, serving 1.6 million electricity and 491,000 gas
customers in southeastern Pennsylvania. In the enviable
position of having highly successful programs in the first
two years of its program cycle and in danger of program
oversubscription, PECO repositioned its portfolio to
achieve higher kWh per unit while continuing to keep
the ENERGY STAR message front and center. PECO is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for
distinguishing itself with thoughtful program planning and
implementation. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Redesigning its Smart Homes Rebate program to focus
on refrigerators and clothes washers recognized as
ENERGY STAR Most Efficient 2012 and updating all
marketing, point of purchase, and educational materials
with the marketing designation.
•	Emphasizing ENERGY STAR certified specialty bulbs
and new LED technologies to encourage customers to
take the next step in lighting efficiency and prepare for
market changes from implementation of federal lighting
standards (Energy Independence and Security Act 2007).
•	Influencing the purchase of more than 190,000 ENERGY
STAR certified lighting products and 11,000 ENERGY
STAR certified appliances and heating and cooling
equipment in 2012, for a total of more than 7.8 million
certified products since program inception.
•	Educating retailers, contractors, and customers about
ENERGY STAR and its energy efficiency programs. Field
staff members conducted nearly 300 store visits and
more than 90 education events during 2012.
•	Continuing its work with retail chains and independent
retailers to offer CFL recycling programs making it easier
for residents in rural and downtown urban areas to
recycle CFLs.
•	Helping its customers achieve savings of more than
8,000 MWh in 2012 for total savings in excess of
428,000 MWh since program inception.
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SMECO
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO)
Hughesville, Maryland
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) is a
customer-owned cooperative which provides electricity to
over 152,000 customers, making it one of the ten largest
U.S. electric co-ops. SMECO launched its residential
energy efficiency programs in 2010 in response to the
EmPOWER Maryland initiative. SMECO is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for its
successful delivery of ENERGY STAR certified homes and
ENERGY STAR certified products programs. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Supporting the construction of 430 ENERGY STAR
certified homes, a 34-percent increase from 2011, and
saving homeowners 980 MWh, for a total of more than
2,400 MWh since 2010.
•	Generating more than 4.6 million impressions through
Google Ad Words and Facebook campaigns for ENERGY
STAR certified homes and over 51 million impressions
across broadcast, print, digital, direct, and social media
for ENERGY STAR certified products.
•	Sponsoring technical trainings for 75 program partners
on the HVAC contractor checklist and ventilation
requirements.
•	Promoting a broad array of ENERGY STAR certified
lighting technologies, including CFLs, LEDs, and fixtures,
and discounting more than 1.1 million light bulbs since
the program's inception.
•	Installing more than 700 ENERGY STAR certified heating
and cooling products, with more than 3,300 units
installed to date.
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Orange, Connecticut
Created to address Connecticut's increasing energy needs, and
rising costs, The Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund (CEEF) is
an initiative to help homeowners and renters, small and large
businesses, and state and local governments get in the habit of
using energy more efficiently. The United Illuminating Company (Ul),
a unit of UIL Holdings Corporation, is a New Haven-based regional
electric distribution company established in 1899. Ul is engaged in
the purchase, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity and
related services to 325,000 residential, commercial, and industrial
customers in the Greater New Haven and Bridgeport areas.
Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P) is the state's largest
electric utility serving 1.2 million customers in 149 cities and towns.
CEEF partners with Ul and CL&P to offer residents access to the
national Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) program.
CEEF, with Ul and CL&P, is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year recognition for continuing to develop their HPwES program.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Offering a residential retrofit program with a comprehensive
approach to provide blower door guided air sealing, duct
sealing, and incentives for additional measures, such as HVAC
upgrades and insulation.
•	Completing over 14,000 HPwES projects achieving energy
savings of more than 10 million kWh, 364,000 ccf of natural
gas, and more than 481,100 gallons of oil since the
program began.
•	Creating more than 300 jobs in the state through its local
HPwES and Home Energy Solutions (HES) program, and
supporting the work of numerous sub-contractors in the HVAC,
insulation, and home improvement trades that benefit from HES
by performing energy efficiency add-on upgrades recommended
during the HES visit.
•	Offering incentives for ENERGY STAR certified homes as well
as for individual measure incentives for insulation, HVAC, and
appliances to offset the cost of improving the energy efficiency
of the home.
•	Participating in the Department of Energy's Home Energy Score
program to help meet the state's aggressive weatherization
goal of improving 80 percent of all residential structures
by 2030.
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New Hampshire CORE Utilities
Manchester, New Hampshire
New Hampshire CORE Utilities is a multi-utility energy
efficiency service provider that includes Liberty Utilities;
New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Public Service
Company of New Hampshire; and Unitil Energy Systems,
Inc. New Hampshire CORE Utilities is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year recognition for its successful
implementation of the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes
and Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES)
programs. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Sending over 300,000 NHSaves catalogs to residential
customers that featured the NH ENERGY STAR
Certified Homes program and ENERGY STAR certified
products.
•	Holding 10 Energy Code Training Sessions that
included a section on building to ENERGY STAR
guidelines and were attended by over 400 builders,
homeowners, real estate agents, HVAC contractors,
and other industry professionals.
•	Providing incentives for nearly 550 ENERGY STAR
certified homes.
•	Completing over 808 HPwES projects and conducting
223 quality assurance inspections for a total of more
than 2,200 improved homes and 653 quality assurance
inspections since the program's inception in 2009.
•	Saving 13.7 million kWhs and more than 347,500
MMBTUsfrom oil, natural gas, kerosene, coal, and
wood since the inception of the program.
•	Growing the local HPwES participating contractor
network to 26 certified contractors from six BPI
certified contractors in 2009.
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Nationwide Marketing Group
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Nationwide Marketing Group is America's largest buying
and marketing organization, serving over 3,500 members
with more than 10,000 storefronts and $14 billion in
combined annual sales. Nationwide Marketing Group is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition
for its remarkable commitment to ENERGY STAR,
increased education and member-training programs,
strong promotions of ENERGY STAR certified products,
and ongoing efforts to increase market share of ENERGY
STAR certified products sold by its members. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Supplying creative HDTV commercials and infomercials
and innovative promotional campaigns all featuring
ENERGY STAR messaging and certified products with a
combined reach of more than 100 million.
•	Partnering with ENERGY STAR manufacturer partners to
launch and promote their most innovative and efficient
ENERGY STAR certified products in support of the
ENERGY STAR Most Efficient initiative.
•	Making ENERGY STAR a focal point of North America's
largest bi-annual member conference and buying show,
"Primetime!"—in 2012, more than 6,000 member
retailers and manufacturer partners attended one or
both of the three-day events. At the event, Nationwide
Marketing Group presented information about the
benefits of ENERGY STAR and available resources to
member retailers; included opportunities to take the
Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR pledge
at internet stations; and offered member retailers and
manufacturer partners ENERGY STAR marketing tools
and resources to highlight their own products.
•	Reaching 11 million consumers through color circulars
and downloadable online tools used by members to
promote ENERGY STAR certified products in thousands
of storefronts across the United States.
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The Home Depot
Atlanta, Georgia
The Home Depot® is the world's largest home improvement
specialty retailer, with more than 2,200 retail stores in the
United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. The Home Depot is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for driving
consumer awareness and adoption of ENERGY STAR throughout
every aspect of its retail business—from product assortment to
marketing and promotions that have generated more than 1.4
trillion ENERGY STAR impressions; more than any other retailer.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
three-phase strategy of working with suppliers,
advertising, and consumers to grow the company's in-store
ENERGY STAR assortment from 3,878 to 4,500 products and
the total ENERGY STAR assortment (including products offered
online) to over 11,000 products. ENERGY STAR penetration
growth created sales increases in major established categories
like refrigeration (+60 percent), clothes washers (+102 percent),
and freezers (+60 percent).
Integrating ENERGY STAR into its annual Supplier Partnership
Meetings, with all top-level merchandising suppliers providing
access to key suppliers such as Owens Corning, Lutron,
Lithonia Lighting, GE, Maytag, and LG. These meetings enabled
successful strategies for integrating ENERGY STAR into product
marketing, including in-store signs and in-store promotions, and
resulting in savings of more than $720 million through the sale
of more than 120 million ENERGY STAR certified products.
Partnering with various utility companies to promote more than
110 ENERGY STAR utility rebate programs in 40 states, offering
customers almost $50 million in instant incentives.
Generously supporting the Change the World, Start with
ENERGY STAR campaign through ENERGY STARs Across
America events, the ENERGY STAR Pledge, and ENERGY STAR
Day. Most significantly, The Home Depot raised the profile
of Team ENERGY STAR through a dedicated Kids Workshop
reaching nearly 200,000 kids across all its U.S. stores and
resulting in more than 1.4 million ENERGY STAR impressions.
Educating nearly 200,000 employees about the value of
ENERGY STAR certified products through a variety of training
programs from elearning to Rapid Web Based Training, to
Monthly Merchant Updates and Home Depot Television.
Continuing to promote ENERGY STAR through its vast array
of media vehicles, from TV and radio to national and regional
print advertising, to in-store promotions and Homedepot.com,
generating more ENERGY STAR impressions than any other
retailer.
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Energy Services Group
New Castle, Delaware
Energy Services Group has been an ENERGY STAR partner
since 1997. Since then, the business has continued to grow its
program and serve an increasing number of builders in Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Providing
comprehensive support to builders at all stages of design,
construction, and sales, Energy Services Group is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for its continued
efforts to be a pioneer in the field of residential energy efficiency.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• In 2012, Energy Services Group worked with 52 builders to help
their homes earn the ENERGY STAR, including 9 new partners
to the program,
certified homes from January -
September 2012, for a total of 13,315
homes since its partnership began in 1997.
Expanding educational services, meeting with builders about
air sealing and insulating, and delivering presentations to the
local Homebuilder Association members about the benefits of
becoming an ENERGY STAR builder partner.
Organizing over 50 ENERGY STAR field trainings for builders
and their teams of subcontractors.
Training all builder partners on the new ENERGY STAR
requirements, conducting more than 45 meetings with builders
and subcontractors to discuss specifications and program
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Allergan, Inc.
Irvine, California
Allergan, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of multi-specialty
healthcare products worldwide. The company strategically
manages energy and greenhouse gas emissions
throughout its operations and builds upon a sound energy
management foundation. Allergan is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year recognition for the continued
growth of its energy management program. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Decreasing energy intensity by nearly 10 percent and
absolute energy consumption and greenhouse gas
emissions equally by 2 percent in 2012.
•	Developing a forward-looking approach to energy
management across all operations that anticipates
future product manufacturing and changing energy
needs of the company.
Supporting actively EPA's ENERGY STAR Focus on
Energy Efficiency in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in
promoting energy and greenhouse gas management.
Researching the difficult matter of appropriate air
changes for clean room operations to enable energy
reductions in its manufacturing facilities globally and
focusing communications with laboratory fume hood
users on energy efficiency.
Sharing its strategic energy and greenhouse gas
management approach openly with industry and other
professional communities.
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Beacon Capital Partners, LLC
Boston, Massachusetts
Beacon Capital Partners, LLC is a private real estate
investment firm that develops, owns, and operates office
properties totaling 30 million square feet across the
United States and Europe. Beacon Capital Partners is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for
incorporating ENERGY STAR guidelines into its standard
business practices and creatively engaging tenants. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
•	Launching its Tenant Energy Awareness initiative,
reaching about 35,000 tenants with festive lobby events
and a variety of education and motivation tactics to
encourage energy conservation. In follow-up surveys
with building tenants, 75 percent of the respondents
found the initiative to be informative and helpful.
•	Increasing its portfolio-wide average ENERGY STAR
score to 86, representing a five-point increase since
2010, and saving an average of 11 cents per square foot
of building floor space in electricity costs.
•	Qualifying for the ENERGY STAR at 90 percent of
properties, moving the company closer to fulfilling its
pledge to earn the ENERGY STAR at 100 percent of its
properties.
•	Developing a strategic process to benchmark and
assess with an energy audit every newly acquired
building. A pillar of its strategy, the "No Cost Energy
Savings Program," led newly acquired buildings that
implemented the program to realize energy savings of
10-30 percent.
•	Using ENERGY STAR as a platform to communicate the
importance of energy efficiency to a wide audience of
building management teams, tenants, leasing brokers,
potential buyers, and investors.
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Brandywine Realty Trust
Radnor, Pennsylvania
Brandywine Realty Trust, operating as a real estate investment
trust, owns, leases, and manages an urban town center, and
suburban office portfolio of 280 properties, totaling 34.5 million
square feet. Brandywine is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of
the Year recognition for adopting the ENERGY STAR approach
to energy management and for its commitment to promoting the
value of strong energy management practices and the ENERGY
STAR program throughout the business community. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Committing at the executive level to integrate value-enhancing
sustainability initiatives into every aspect of the company's
relationships with customers and challenging its vendor
network to generate greater benefits, both financial and
environmental.
•	Sponsoring the Pennsylvania/New Jersey Sustainability
Symposium in which the Brandywine CEO extolled the business
benefits of sustainability and energy efficiency to an audience
of business leaders and government officials.
•	Embracing the ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy
Management as the model for the Brandywine Environments
Sustainability Team's initiatives.
•	Creating an inventory and assessment of the metering
configurations, building systems, and management practices
across its managed portfolio. Brandywine uses the assessment
and inventory reports, along with the ENERGY STAR scores to
set improvement targets for properties.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR certification for 43 buildings, including
24 buildings that had not previously achieved ENERGY STAR—
contributing to a total of 84 ENERGY STAR certifications since
2010.
•	Achieving a four-percent reduction in average weather-
normalized source energy use intensity across its managed
portfolio.
•	Hosting a competition among regional managers and awarding
prizes for the region with the greatest demand load shedding
and the most ENERGY STAR certified buildings.
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Washington, District of Columbia
Cassidy Turley provides commercial real estate services for a wide
range of clients, from small businesses and non-profits to Fortune
500 companies and major institutions. Cassidy Turley is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for embedding
energy efficiency into its corporate practices, using ENERGY
STAR tools and resources, and taking those best practices to their
clients. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Centralizing its more than 350 managed buildings into a main
Portfolio Manager account and training more than 150 property
managers on Portfolio Manager, ensuring that its growing
national portfolio is benchmarking.
•	Reducing its portfolio-wide total weather normalized source
energy consumption by almost 13 percent compared to the
2010 baseline and establishing a new goal to reduce energy
consumption by an additional 10 percent by 2018.
•	Earning the ENERGY STAR for 80 buildings, with 29 of those
buildings achieving certification for the first time in 2012.
•	Achieving double-digit improvement in the ENERGY STAR
scores of 32 buildings in just 12 months.
•	Contributing to the success of EPA's 2012 National Building
Competition through the participation of 21 of its buildings.
•	Reaching tens of thousands of tenants and creatively engaging
them on energy efficiency and sustainability through the
"Powerful Ideas" campaign and the Green Bucks Coupon
Program, which rewards tenants for doing their part to reduce
energy consumption with Green Bucks to spend at local,
participating restaurants.
•	Using social media as a way to communicate energy goals,
successes, and tips to a broad audience.
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DesMoines
Des Moines Public Schools
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) is the largest public
school district in Iowa, educating a diverse student body
of more than 32,000 for more than 100 years. DMPS is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition
for its commitment to demonstrating environmental and
financial stewardship through comprehensive energy
management based on ENERGY STAR best practices. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
•	Raising its average ENERGY STAR score to 86,
representing a seven-point improvement over 2011 and
a 28-percent reduction in energy use.
•	Saving $2.4 million in avoided energy costs since the
2007-2008 fiscal year through operational changes and
cost-effective upgrades, such as installing software that
automatically turns off all of the district's more than
15,000 computers.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR certification for 11 buildings in
2012, for a total of 53 certified buildings, and earning
recognition as an ENERGY STAR Top Performer.
•	Publishing a monthly Energy Report Card that provides
education to staff, students, and the community about
energy performance, conservation tips, classroom
educational opportunities, and ENERGY STAR materials.
•	Educating students on the importance of energy
conservation through the Iowa Energy and Sustainability
Academy, a cutting-edge program focused on energy
sustainability that is incorporated into the curriculum at
all grade levels.
•	Continuing to renovate historic structures, each an
average of 65 years old, into models of energy-efficient
buildings through equipment upgrades, such as the
installation of geothermal systems in 33 schools to date.
EASTMAN
Eastman Chemical Company
Kingsport, Tennessee
Eastman Chemical Company is a global specialty
chemicals company that manufactures and markets a
broad portfolio of chemicals, fibers, and plastics. The
company believes energy efficiency is a critical part of
operating sustainably and is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year recognition for continuing to build
upon its sound energy management foundation. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Improving energy intensity by 2.5 percent in 2012 and
7 percent since 2008. Energy achievements in 2012
equate to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
of 340 million pounds or an elimination of emissions
from 28,000 cars, and saved the company more than $8
million.
•	Increasing the corporate energy budget from $7.2
million in 2011 to $10.5 million in 2012 based on the
recognition that energy projects have a high rate of
return with low associated risk.
•	Expanding the responsibility of Eastman's Corporate
Energy Team from 10 to 16 manufacturing sites as a
result of a major acquisition.
•	Enhancing the energy management abilities of the
company by adding chemical engineers to Eastman's
assessment team. This assessment process has resulted
in over $7 million in savings opportunities identified
since 2010.
•	Addressing the heart of energy use in the chemical
industry by developing a course to educate process
design engineers on incorporating energy efficiency in
new manufacturing designs.
•	Focusing on common plant systems that use energy,
such as steam, and benchmarking within sites. This
effort led to the creation of a corporate-wide best
practices program and the addition of five maintenance
coordinators committed to leak repair. In 2012, the
company invested over $2 million in steam leak repairs
for an average payback period of six months.
•	Raising awareness of energy efficiency and EPA's
ENERGY STAR resources in the community and among
employees through an energy fair, working with the
City of Kingsport, Tennessee to have its Mayor declare
ENERGY STAR Day, and participating in EPA's Battle of
the Buildings.
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San Antonio, Texas
The Air Force Medical Support Agency (AFMSA) of the Air Force
Medical Service provides facility management services to 17
million square feet of healthcare facilities worldwide. Its mission
is to deliver "Trusted Care, Anywhere" Air Force personnel and
their families are stationed. Energy efficiency is deeply embedded
in AFMSAs mission. AFMSAs Aviano Hospital was the first
U.S. building to earn ENERGY STAR certification on foreign soil.
AFMSA is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition
for successfully using ENERGY STAR resources as a foundation to
meet its target of reducing energy intensity by 30 percent by 2015.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Increasing its portfolio-wide average ENERGY STAR energy
performance score by 10 points over its 2011 average score.
•	Reducing its average annual source energy intensity by 104.9
kBtu per square foot, achieving $3.29 million in energy cost
savings,
•	Earning the ENERGY STAR for one hospital and six medical
office buildings.
•	Achieving more than $195,000 in energy cost savings at a
medical facility through retro-commissioning cooling towers,
heating systems, and the building automation system.
•	Creating a "Proto Star" award for facilities making significant
strides towards ENERGY STAR certification and encouraging
winning facility engineers to share best practices.
•	Educating patients and service personnel about ENERGY STAR
through the Armed Forces Network and its website.
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Fort Wright, Kentucky
Kenton County School District (KCSD) has made great strides
in energy efficiency through committing to ongoing energy
management, investing in energy-efficient new construction,
involving students in energy efficiency initiatives, and adopting
new technology. As a result of the good example set by the
district, school districts from across Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee,
and North Carolina have modeled their energy programs after
KCSD and have adopted the district's E=WISE2 student program.
KCSD, which educates more than 14,000 students across 1.7
million square feet, is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year recognition for its significant commitment to building and
operating energy-efficient schools and for using ENERGY STAR
tools and resources as a central component of its energy program.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Benchmarking district facilities in Portfolio Manager, EPA's
ENERGY STAR measurement and tracking tool, and improving
energy efficiency by 30 percent compared to its baseline year.
•	Earning recognition as an ENERGY STAR Top Performer in 2012
and as an ENERGY STAR Leader in 2009 and 2010.
•	Increasing the district's average ENERGY STAR energy
performance score by 9 points.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR certification for 10 schools in the
district.
•	Promoting the district's participation with the ENERGY
STAR program on the district's website, in presentations, at
luncheons, and in published materials.
•	Having a student Energy Team in every school.
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LIBERTY
PROPERTY TRUST
Liberty Property Trust
Malvern, Pennsylvania
As a $7 billion real estate investment trust, Liberty
Property Trust owns nearly 81 million square feet of
office and industrial space throughout the United States
and United Kingdom. Liberty Property Trust is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for
institutionalizing a comprehensive approach to energy
management throughout its corporate structure and
expanding its energy management programs, including the
use of ENERGY STAR tools and resources, to tenants and
stakeholders. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Achieving a 6.8-percent reduction in total energy use
and a portfolio-wide average ENERGY STAR score
of 75 by emphasizing innovation, technology, and
partnerships.
•	Reducing normalized, portfolio energy use by more
than 18 percent since 2008, equal to the elimination
of 27,804 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, and
accumulating more than $4 million in energy savings in
that time.
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Houston, Texas
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (Memorial
Hermann) is the largest nonprofit healthcare system in
southeast Texas. With 12 major campus locations, its
portfolio of 8.8 million square feet includes numerous
medical offices and outpatient healthcare facilities.
Memorial Hermann is committed to being a steward of
community resources and environmental responsibility.
Memorial Hermann is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner
of the Year recognition for being the most ENERGY STAR
certified healthcare system in the nation as a proportion of
total space in 2012. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Improving its average annual source energy intensity by
16.3 kEStu per square foot, achieving more than $427,000
in energy cost savings while adding 59,300 square feet
of new hospital space in 2012.
•	Earning the ENERGY STAR for seven hospitals and four
medical office buildings.
•	Dedicating resources, with the creation of a capital
fund, to specifically identify and fund energy efficiency
projects not included in the standard capital budget.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR certification for more than 80
buildings and focusing on energy-efficient building
design by mandating that all new construction office
building designs must achieve a minimum score of 80 in
Target Finder.
•	Benchmarking 100 percent of its managed portfolio in
Portfolio Manager, currently 132 buildings, and changing
its standard office and industrial lease language to
require self-managed tenants to share their utility
data with the landlord by request, with the goal of
benchmarking all buildings in the Liberty portfolio.
•	Launching efforts to engage building tenants in
benchmarking and energy conservation through its
Liberty Energy Efficiency Partnership (LEEP) program and
the Liberty Green Guide website.
•	Becoming the second healthcare system to earn
recognition as an ENERGY STAR Leader for improving
energy performance by 10 percent across its portfolio.
•	Achieving an average ENERGY STAR energy
performance score of 66 across its portfolio,
representing a 29-point improvement since 2008, and
yielding an $11.8 million improvement to the bottom
line.
•	Enrolling its entire portfolio of buildings in EPA's
ENERGY STAR Battle of the Buildings competition.
•	Educating employees, patients, and the public about
ENERGY STAR in trade journal articles, newspapers,
seminars, and on its website.
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North Penn School District
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
North Penn School District, located in southeastern Pennsylvania,
serves 12,500 students and encompasses 2 million square feet
of space across 18 schools and two administrative buildings.
An active ENERGY STAR Partner, the district is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for its aggressive,
no -capital expense energy management program focused on
improving district-wide energy efficiency and educating students
on the value of saving energy. The successes were achieved by
harnessing the talents and energy of all employees and students
to take both individual steps and set specific goals to reduce
energy consumption. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Receiving recognition as an ENERGY STAR Leader for improving
the energy performance of its facilities by more than 20
percent.
•	Engaging more than 400 students in the district's energy
management program through a grant funded program
called PowerSave Schools offered by the Alliance to Save
Energy. Students launched awareness campaigns, prepared
websites, performed energy audits, interpreted data, made
recommendations, and developed award methods for good
energy practices.
•	Delivering more than 12 presentations outlining the importance
of energy management in K~12 public schools and the benefit
of using ENERGY STAR tools and resources to advance energy
management programs.
•	Featuring in various publications for energy efficiency efforts
utilizing ENERGY STAR and focusing on educating the student
body as key strategy for energy management.
•	Saving more than $1.1 million in utility costs, an amount equal
to the combined salaries of 21 first-year teachers. This was
achieved through operational and behavioral changes and with
no capital expenditure.
•	Achieving ENERGY STAR scores of 75 or higherforall 20
buildings in its portfolio, improving its average ENERGY STAR
score from 70 to 93 and achieving a score above 90 for 13
buildings, 10 of which earned a score of 95 or higher.
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Scott County Schools
Georgetown, Kentucky
Scott County Public Schools, located in Scott County, Kentucky,
serves more than 8,600 students in 12 schools. The district has
embraced the tools offered by ENERGY STAR and has made major,
district-wide improvements in energy efficiency. Scott County
Public Schools is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
recognition for its demonstrated success in improving energy
efficiency. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Avoiding more than $990,500 in utility costs during the first 28
months of the district's energy management program.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR certification for 10 of the district's
schools in 2012.
•	Achieving an average ENERGY STAR energy performance score
of 84 across the district's portfolio of buildings.
•	Participating in EPA's 2011 ENERGY STAR National Building
Competition—Northern Elementary finished 13th in the nation,
5th out of all schools, and first in Kentucky with an energy
consumption reduction of 28.5 percent. All Scott County
Schools participated in the 2012 competition, and all schools
demonstrated improvement at the midpoint of the campaign.
•	Holding multiple televised awards ceremonies to celebrate
earning ENERGY STAR awards and recognition.
•	Partnered with Toyota, ENERGY STAR Award winner, to identify
and implement energy savings opportunities in many of the
district's schools.
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Verizon Wireless
Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Verizon Wireless is the nation's largest wireless
communications company, with more than 73,500
employees and 1,900 retail locations across the country.
Verizon Wireless is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of
the Year recognition for continuing to aggressively work
toward its goal of reducing its carbon intensity by half by
2020, and for promoting energy efficiency awareness to
staff members and customers. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
•	Benchmarking 100 percent of its retail facilities in
Portfolio Manager.
•	Improving company-wide energy use by 5.2 percent.
•	Earning the ENERGY STAR for 47 stores in 2012, for a
total of 116 certified stores. This puts the company on
track to reach its goal of certifying 100 percent of its
stores that are eligible for ENERGY STAR certification
by 2014.
•	Closely monitoring which stores should be targeted
for improvements arid then making improvements
such as performing lighting retrofits, installing energy
management systems, upgrading HVAC equipment, and
installing cell site cabinet air filters.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR to employees, customers,
and a national audience through a variety of channels.
Educational resources on the company's internal
website arid participation in the National Building
Competition increased awareness among employees. In
addition, ENERGY STAR was featured in a blog entry by
Verizon's Chief Sustainability Officer, as well as several
press releases put out throughout the year.
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REALTY TRUST
Vornado Realty Trust
New York, New York
One of the largest owners and managers of commercial
real estate in the United States, with more than 100
million square feet of property, Vornado Realty Trust is a
fully integrated Real Estate Investment Trust. Vornado is
receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition
for its sophisticated and strategic approach to energy
management—an approach that uses the power of data,
innovative technology, and a comprehensive outreach and
communications platform. Key 2012 accomplishments
include:
•	Establishing a foundation of effective energy
management by setting goals, creating action plans,
implementing projects, evaluating progress, and
recognizing achievements.
•	Employing innovative data monitoring approaches,
including sharing real-time energy data with tenants
through the trademarked Energy Information Portal, and
controlling energy management and building systems at
its tenant services center.
•	Launching its Energy Efficiency Capital Fund and funding
$5 million worth of base-building energy efficiency
projects, including implementation of variable frequency
drives, high-efficiency motors, enhanced building
controls, and LED lighting—saving an anticipated 11.5
million kWh annually.
•	Realizing a nearly 15-percent reduction in average
weather-normalized source energy use intensity across
43 million square feet of its portfolio.
•	Creating PSA opportunities through informational kiosks
in its large regional malls and major advertising signage
promotion of Vornado's ENERGY STAR success on its
LED motion screens in Manhattan's Times Square and
Penn Plaza—reaching a daily audience of more than
two million viewers,
•	Enrolling all of its eligible buildings in the ENERGY STAR
National Building Competition.
•	Rolling out the "It Takes Blue to Make Green" program,
which educates property teams, brokers, and tenants
on how energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR scores
are essential components in optimizing building
performance.
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Norcross, Georgia
Wells Real Estate Funds is a nationwide purchaser and manager
of Class A commercial real estate. As of year-end 2012, Wells
Real Estate Funds owned and/or managed approximately 120
office properties, encompassing nearly 26 million square feet. The
majority of these assets were part of the Wells REIT II portfolio,
now Columbia Property Trust. Wells Real Estate Funds is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for the continued
expansion of its energy management program, including active
communication and engagement of property managers and
tenants on energy efficiency. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Increasing portfolio-wide energy efficiency by 8.8 percent
through 75 energy improvement projects, saving nearly $3.5
million, which equates to a savings of 13 cents per square foot
across its benchmarked portfolio.
•	Achieving its greatest participation of properties benchmarking,
with 83 percent of properties entered in Portfolio Manager, a
significant achievement given that nearly half of the properties
are leased to triple-net tenants.
•	Implementing the "Make an Impact Green Rally" to encourage
property managers to proactively share their tenant
engagement and energy efficiency efforts with the home office.
In this race car-themed competition, "pit crews" earn points
for activities that support energy performance goals, such as
adding a triple-net lease tenant to Portfolio Manager or hosting
green-themed events for its tenants, with the winning pit crew
earning the Trophy Cup.
•	Improving portfolio-wide energy efficiency by 30 percent since
joining as an ENERGY STAR Partner in 2008.
•	Earning ENERGY STAR certification for 65 properties, including
10 new certifications, and achieving Leaders Top Performer
recognition.
•	Sharing ENERGY STAR success stories with key stakeholders,
including tenants, financial reps, investors, and the general
public.
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AVR Homebuilders
Yonkers, New York
AVR Homebuilders is the regional residential building division of
AVR Realty. The company made a commitment in 2006 to build
100 percent ENERGY STAR certified homes. AVR Homebuilders
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for
its dedication to building and promoting ENERGY STAR certified
homes. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Building 74 new ENERGY STAR certified homes, bringing the
total to 448 homes since 2006.
•	Developing an online video promoting AVR Homebuilders
and its ENERGY STAR certified homes through video portals,
including YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Metacafe, AOL
Video, and MSN Soapbox.
•	Providing comprehensive technical training on ENERGY STAR
requirements to construction staff and subcontractors with the
help of its Home Energy Rater.
•	Using ENERGY STAR as a standard baseline for all homes, with
the option to add more stringent energy standards.
•	Conducting frequent meetings with sales and construction staff
at each project to ensure that all concerns and issues regarding
ENERGY STAR are addressed.
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GRAYHAWK
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Grayhawk Homes, Inc.
Columbus, Georgia
Grayhawk Homes has been constructing 100 percent
ENERGY STAR certified homes in Western Georgia,
Eastern Alabama, and Des Moines, Iowa since the
beginning of 2010. its strong co-branding with ENERGY
STAR'S marketing platform has led Grayhawk Homes to
become one of Georgia's largest ENERGY STAR builder
partners in only three years. Grayhawk Homes is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for its
commitment to building ENERGY STAR certified homes.
Key accomplishments in 2012 include:
•	Selling over 657 ENERGY STAR certified homes since
its initial 100 percent commitment to ENERGY STAR in
2010.
•	Offering ENERGY STAR as a baseline for all of its home
types, including affordable, entry-level units.
•	Creating a comprehensive training program for real
estate agents and homebuyers, including model home
demonstrations, real estate agent email blasts, and an
"ENERGY STAR Tip of the Day" to all its social media
followers.
•	Developing promotional materials that showcase results
from a homeowner survey conducted that show that
homeowners that live in a Grayhawk ENERGY STAR
certified home save an average of $207.81 per month
compared to homeowners who live in a non-energy
efficient home in its market.
•	Providing training to every subcontractor on the
benefits of ENERGY STAR certified homes and working
collaboratively with subcontractors to achieve the ability
to build every home to ENERGY STAR requirements.
PRODUCT MANUFACTURER
Air King, Ltd.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Air King, Ltd. (Air King) has been producing ventilation
products for more than 40 years and is an industry leader
with offices in the United States, Canada, and China.
Air King is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
recognition for its innovative and successful efforts in
manufacturing and promoting ENERGY STAR certified
products, which has distinguished it as a leader in 2012.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Producing 102 ENERGY STAR certified models,
representing an 11-percent increase compared to 2011.
•	Earning 44 percent of its total sales dollars with
ENERGY STAR certified products, a 53-percent increase
compared to 2011.
•	Expanding educational events for contractors and
industry professionals on the benefits of ENERGY
STAR and Air King's ENERGY STAR certified ventilation
products.
•	Producing an ENERGY STAR exhaust fan at close-to-
entry-1 eve I pricing in order to make its ENERGY STAR
certified products more accessible to the general
population.
•	Running multiple promotions during its training days
and trade shows, highlighting the "Change the World,
Start with ENERGY STAR" campaign. Air King also ran
an online and social media campaign, awarding one
fan each month to participating visitors who took the
ENERGY STAR pledge.
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DIRECTV
EI Segundo, California
DIRECTV is among the world's leading digital television providers
with more than 32 million customers in the United States arid
Latin America. DIRECTV is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year recognition for deploying many millions of energy-efficient
receivers, educating millions of prospective arid current customers
as well as thousands of employees about the benefit of efficiency,
arid supporting progressive partnerships with key efficiency
stakeholders. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Deploying more than 10 million certified receivers in 2012
alone. Since it began its participation in 2009, DIRECTV has
deployed well over 43 million certified receivers.
•	Helping consumers save more than 900 million kWh annually—
or the electricity use of nearly 70,000 homes, from the receivers
deployed in 2012 alone—and 3.7 billion kWh cumulatively
since 2009.
•	Updating tens of millions of deployed receivers, adding an
energy-saving mode arid making possible future efficiency
enhancements.
•	Training 14,500 technicians on the benefits of the company's
ENERGY STAR participation.
•	Sharing the benefits of DIRECTV'S ENERGY STAR certified
receivers via the DIRECTV home page, TV mail messages,
customer bills, the Tips arid Tricks Guide for new customers,
newspaper circulars, and Facebook arid blog postings.
•	Partnering with key efficiency programs to carry the efficiency
of set top boxes further arid more quickly.
Hoshizaki America, Inc.
Peachtree City, Georgia
Hoshizaki America, Inc. (Hoshizaki) is an international leader
in the design, manufacture, arid marketing of products for the
foodservice industry. In 2012, Hoshizaki committed to providing
energy-efficient ice machines, refrigeration equipment, arid
dishwashers with clear benefits for commercial food service
customers. Hoshizaki is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of
the Year recognition for actively supporting the ENERGY STAR
specification development arid test method development
process, and for its marketing arid outreach to a wide audience
on the benefits of ENERGY STAR certified equipment. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Earning ENERGY STAR certification for 100 percent of its
product line, offering a total of 105 certified models. This is a
25-percent increase compared to previous years.
•	Integrating the ENERGY STAR logo and messaging into
promotional point-of-sales materials, brochures, and charts
targeting consumers, dealers, and other key influencers to
educate them on the savings associated with ENERGY STAR
certified products.
•	Educating 85 percent of all new employees and staff members
and 88 percent of distributor and retailer staff members on
ENERGY STAR and other efficiency-related guidelines.
•	Developing a new end-user awareness campaign on the
energy and resource savings associated with an ENERGY STAR
certified product.
•	Implementing a Hoshizaki sustainability plan that has resulted
in continued recycling and waste facility reductions—a
12-percent improvement compared to 2011.
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LG Electronics, Inc.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
LG Electronics USA (LG) is the North American subsidiary
of LG Electronics, Inc., a global leader in consumer
electronics, home appliances, and mobile communications.
The company is committed to improving the environment
through energy efficiency. LG is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year recognition for its superior performance
in product innovation, promotion of ENERGY STAR certified
products, community-outreach efforts, and employee
education programs. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	More than doubling the number of available ENERGY
STAR certified product models in 2012 to a total of 987
models.
•	Implementing a nationwide, multifaceted public
education campaign about ENERGY STAR that reached
more than 1 billion consumers, including messaging
displayed at the Food Network NYC Food and Wine
Festival, promotion of LG's ENERGY STAR Most Efficient
2012 TurboWash clothes washer on The Price is
Right, as well as a spot on the Times Square billboard
featuring ENERGY STAR messaging.
•	Training more than 265,000 sales associates on the
benefits of ENERGY STAR certified products—155,000
more sales associates compared to 2011.
•	Demonstrating exceptional efficiency performance
with more than 1 million LG products sold in the United
States recognized as ENERGY STAR Most Efficient 2012.
Pella Corporation
Pella, Iowa
Pella Corporation is an innovative leader in designing,
testing, manufacturing, and installing quality windows and
doors for new construction, remodeling, and replacement
applications. As a family-owned and privately held
company, Pella is known for its 87-year commitment
to innovation, energy efficiency, and the practice of
environmental stewardship. Pella is receiving ENERGY
STAR Partner of the Year recognition for its commitment
to making ENERGY STAR qualified windows available to
consumers and for outstanding promotional efforts. Key
accomplishments include:
• Launching an interactive iPad app, an iBook for Pella
Certified ContractorsSM, a digital sales presentation
for the Lowe's in-home sales team, and an Energy
Assessment Kit for use during homeowner consultation.
In 2012, these tools educated more than two million
consumers about ENERGY STAR.
•	Developing SmartSyncTM Technology, which will
provide an affordable way to optimize window energy
performance through intelligent, integrated shade
control.
•	Training 100 percent of new and existing employees
and an average of 92 percent of staff at all of Pel la's
distributor and retailer locations.
•	Continuing its outstanding promotion of the ENERGY
STAR brand through co-promotional efforts with more
than 24 million impressions and other marketing efforts
achieving nearly 1.5 billion impressions in 2012 alone.
•	Designing an ENERGY STAR qualified impact-resistant
product line for consumers living in hurricane-prone
areas.
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PHILIPS
Philips Lighting Company
Somerset, New Jersey
Philips Lighting Company is a leader in delivering sustainable
and environmentally friendly lighting technologies and initiatives
to the marketplace. Philips Lighting Company is also a leader
in shaping the future with exciting new lighting applications
and platforms such as LED technology, which, in addition to
energy efficiency, provides attractive benefits and endless new
never-before-possible sustainable lighting solutions. Philips
Lighting Company is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
recognition for providing consumers with energy-efficient products
to meet their lighting needs and consistently prioritizing ENERGY
STAR in its design process and promotional efforts. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Nearly doubling its number of ENERGY STAR certified light
bulb offerings from 2011 to 263 products. This includes the
certification of 88 new LED models, among them the first 75 W
omni-directional incandescent equivalent bulb.
•	Partnering with a number of utilities in the northeast region to
promote energy efficiency, adopting ENERGY STAR certified
LED light bulbs, and distributing LED bulbs to 65,000 students
at 40 area universities. This effort resulted in an estimated 59
million kWh savings, and an 89-million-pound reduction in GHG
emissions over the lifetime of the products.
•	Training more than 10,000 retailer and distributor employees
through a variety of vehicles, including the Philips Lighting
Application Center, road shows, and in-store training events.
•	Demonstrating leadership in product innovation, including the
Department of Energy L Prize-winning LED bulb, which was
ENERGY STAR certified in 2012.
•	Educating consumers about ENERGY STAR through its website
as well as a series of YouTube videos on LED lighting.
•	Supporting the ENERGY STAR Change the World, Start with
ENERGY STAR campaign through its Team ENERGY STAR First
Mates event, participation in Twitter and Facebook parties, and
an employee pledge drive.
ProVia
Sugarcreek, Ohio
ProVia is committed to making entry doors the professional
way; doors individually customized to meet the homeowners'
highest standards, including providing ENERGY STAR certified
door products. Founded in 1977 with one employee, ProVia now
employs 380. ProVia is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year recognition for its commitment to consumer education,
employee training, and high-performance products. Key
accomplishments include:
• Launching a children's educational campaign to teach young
consumers to save energy and be environmentally responsible
through in-school programs reaching 200 students and by
distributing more than 3,600 educational coloring books.
•	Training 100 percent of new and existing ProVia employees and
sales persons at 89 percent of dealer locations, a 62-percent
increase compared to 2011.
•	Securing 4.9 million impressions in 2012 for consumer-facing
materials promoting ENERGY STAR.
•	Investing in research and development to find innovative ways
to improve energy efficiency and reduce air leakage in a variety
of products.
•	Using a clear and concise door label to help consumers
understand door performance and ENERGY STAR certification.
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Ice Systems
Scotsman Ice Systems
Vernon Hills, Illinois
Scotsman Ice Systems (Scotsman) is one of the world's
largest manufacturers of ice systems and is dedicated
to developing energy-efficient, reliable ice solutions.
Scotsman is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
recognition for developing and promoting energy-efficient
ice machines, actively engaging and supporting the
ENERGY STAR specification development and test method
development process, and promoting and educating
various foodservice industry professionals on the benefits
of ENERGY STAR certified ice machines. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Expanding its energy-efficient product line to include
a total of 65 ENERGY STAR certified ice machines and
increasing the sales of ENERGY STAR certified products
to 79 percent of all sales.
•	Displaying the ENERGY STAR logo on all ENERGY STAR
certified models as well as training and marketing
collateral. Scotsman also educates dealers, sales
representatives, distributors, and the media about
energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR.
•	Educating employees, consultants, buying groups, and
dealers throughout the United States on the energy and
cost savings associated with ENERGY STAR certified
products and on energy- and water-saving features.
•	Actively communicating ENERGY STAR as well
as energy and water efficiency messages through
marketing, public relations, social media, advertising,
and online activities, including EPAs ENERGY STAR
"Change the World" social media efforts.
•	Holding its first annual educational Earth Day Idea
contest for consumers and end users. The contest
included several employee ideas to reduce energy
consumption.
•	Being highlighted in McDonald's Corporation's 2012 Best
of Sustainable Supply Chain report for the Scotsman Ice
Systems Prodigy® line of ice machines, which delivers
50-percent reductions in water consumption, saving
more than 150,000 gallons of water over the typical
lifetime of a machine.
SHARP
Sharp Electronics Corporation
Mahwah, New Jersey
Sharp Electronics Corporation (Sharp) is a subsidiary of
Japan's Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of
one-of-a-kind home entertainment products, appliances,
multifunctional office solutions, and mobile communication
and information tools. Sharp is receiving ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year recognition for distinguishing itself by
building on an exceptional track record in offering ENERGY
STAR certified products across multiple product categories.
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Certifying more than 154 efficient models across seven
different product lines, including air conditioners, air
purifiers, copiers/printers/multifunctional devices,
monitors/displays, DVD players, and TVs.
•	Offering ENERGY STAR certified TV models featuring
Sharp's unique Quattron Quad Pixel technology that
enables very low power consumption.
•	Receiving ENERGY STAR Most Efficient recognition
for 21 new TV models and having the biggest share of
large screen televisions that meet ENERGY STAR Most
Efficient 2012 recognition criteria.
•	Expanding its marketing efforts to elevate ENERGY
STAR information on its website and at trade shows.
•	Providing significant feedback during the ENERGY STAR
certified televisions specification revision process.
•	Promoting the ENERGY STAR Change the World, Start
with ENERGY STAR campaign by becoming a pledge
driver.
•	Conducting another year of Sharp's Solar Academy
program, educating thousands of students on such
topics as climate change, energy efficiency, and
renewable energy.
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Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP)
Aurora, Ohio
Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP) is a leading lighting
manufacturer committed to providing high-quality, efficient
lighting solutions at a low cost. TCP was the number one
provider of CFLs in the United States in 2010 with a 32 percent
market share, according to the National Electrical Manufacturers
Association. TCP has a strong distribution footprint and reputation
among retailers and distributors and sells products through
more than 20,000 retail and commercial outlets. TCP is receiving
ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for continuing to
keep ENERGY STAR at the center of its strategy and excelling
in the areas of CFL production, promotion, and employee
engagement. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Offering a broad range of ENERGY STAR certified CFLs, adding
176 new models in 2012.
•	Pioneering U.S. manufacturing of CFLs and promoting job
creation through its U.S.-based assembly plant.
•	Achieving a #1 Consumer Reports ranking for its CFLs three
years in a row,
•	Maintaining high-quality control standards with direct control
over quality, consistency, and yield at manufacturing facilities.
•	Working closely with numerous utility and retail partners to
promote ENERGY STAR certified lighting. Of particular note,
TCP held a series of in-store events with Sam's Club to educate
customers on the benefits of switching to CFLs. Through
an exemplary partnership with PG&E and Orchard Supply
Hardware, TCP trained store employees to guide customers to
ENERGY STAR certified lighting solutions.
•	Engaging its employees through promotion of the ENERGY
STAR Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR campaign,
holding an event to celebrate ENERGY STAR, and putting
together an employee pledge drive.
SERVICE AND PRCJ.CT PROVIDER
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Burton Energy Group
Alpharetta, Georgia
Burton Energy Group, recently honored by Inc. Magazine as one
of the fastest-growing private companies in America, provides
energy management services for commercial businesses with
multi-site, geographically diverse facilities. Burton Energy Group
is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for
creating and managing client energy plans that improve energy
efficiency and environmental performance, mitigate price risk,
stabilize utility budgets, and lower overall energy operating costs
The company's dozens of clients in retail, hospitality, restaurant
services, and distribution rely on Burton Energy Group to share
best-practice ideas. It also shares industry-leading tools and
processes with clients to optimize their energy performance
and costs while reducing the environmental impact of operating
buildings. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Benchmarking and providing monthly updates on more than
1,700 facilities using Portfolio Manager.
•	Successfully earning ENERGY STAR certification for superior
energy performance for more than 400 client buildings.
•	Achieving a more than 10-point increase in the ENERGY STAR
energy performance score of more than 50 client buildings.
•	Promoting and communicating the value of the ENERGY STAR
program in marketing materials, as well as on Burton Energy
Group's website and blog.
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FANNING HOWEY
Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc.
Celina, Ohio
Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc. (Fanning Flowey) is a
full-service architecture, design, and engineering firm
specializing in educational facilities. The firm uses
ENERGY STAR tools and resources to help clients establish
reasonable energy performance goals and make sure those
goals are met once buildings are in operation. Fanning
Howey is receiving ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year
recognition for successfully incorporating the ENERGY
STAR management strategy as an integral part of the firm's
business practice to provide value to its clients. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Achieving 12 Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR
certification projects over the past two years.
•	Completing 14 major new construction and renovation
projects using EPA's online tool Target Finder during the
design process.
•	Serving as the reviewing authority for two schools
earning ENERGY STAR certification and providing
ongoing monitoring for 26 other buildings.
•	Delivering six presentations and writing three articles
promoting Target Finder and Portfolio Manager.
•	Achieving an average energy improvement of nearly 40
percent on Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR projects.
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Amerlux
Fairfield, New Jersey
Amerlux designs and manufactures energy-efficient lighting
solutions for a variety of commercial applications, including
grocery store lighting. Amerlux is receiving ENERGY STAR
recognition for its exceptional product promotion. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Certifying more than 300 new ENERGY STAR certified light
fixtures in 2012, resulting in a 316-percent increase compared
to 2011.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR certified lighting solutions to
distributors and commercial lighting buyers, consistently
emphasizing the value of ENERGY STAR in these efforts.
•	Featuring ENERGY STAR certified products prominently in
a wide range of vehicles, including tradeshow booths, road
shows, online, and printed collateral.
FSL Home Energy Solutions
Phoenix, Arizona
FSL Home Energy Solutions (FSL) implements the Arizona Home
Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) program with direct
support from Arizona Public Service (APS), Salt River Project (SRP),
and Southwest Gas Corporation (SWG). FSL is receiving ENERGY
STAR Excellence recognition for its role as a leader in energy
efficiency and its ongoing commitment to HPwES. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Completing 3,222 HPwES projects and 1,276 quality assurance
inspections in 2012.
•	Expanding the HPwES program to over 70 participating
contractors, an increase of more than 300 percent since 2010,
and increasing contractor conversion rates to 38 percent.
•	Expanding its marketing and outreach efforts to include radio
and TV advertisements, print media, and online promotions,
such as local radio shows and YouTube web videos. FSL also
participated in special events marketing at home shows and
community events.
•	Working with APS to sponsor HPwES marketing events with the
Arizona Diamondbacks, Phoenix Suns, and Phoenix Coyotes.
•	Focusing on quality workmanship and contractor training by
establishing the FSL Southwest Building Science Training
Center, and offering contractor sales training and mentoring.
•	Developing a collaborative offering for Arizonians by enabling
access to APS, SRP, and SWG incentives, collectively saving
more than 1.6 million kWh and more than 11.7 million pounds
of GHG annually.
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National Grid
Waltham, Massachusetts
National Grid is an international energy delivery company
that provides electricity to more than 3 million customers
in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode
Island. The company manages the electricity network
on Long Island under an agreement with the Long Island
Power Authority (LIRA). It is also the largest distributor of
natural gas in the northeastern United States. National
Grid is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for continuing
its longstanding leadership in promoting long-term market
transformation for energy efficiency through innovative
and creative consumer outreach and educational efforts
centering on ENERGY STAR certified products and
practices. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Encouraging customers to purchase ENERGY STAR
certified products, with significant impacts—as a result
of the company's campaigns, partnerships, and point-of-
purchase materials, more than 3 million ENERGY STAR
certified products were sold to customers in 2012.
•	Developing another unique community outreach
campaign this year to celebrate the 20th Anniversary
of ENERGY STAR. National Grid threw several
parties aimed at youth summer camps and programs,
challenging campers to use their curiosity, creativity,
and concern for the environment to create "gifts" for
ENERGY STAR. This campaign helped to motivate
kids to become stewards of the environment and their
communities while educating them on the benefits
of energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR. The ENERGY
STAR 20th Anniversary Celebration campaign garnered
more than 7.5 million combined paid and earned media
impressions and drove more than 26,000 page views to
the campaign's micro-site.
•	Launching an innovative program to interact with the
blogger community to educate readers about ENERGY
STAR and the various deals and rebates National Grid
offers on ENERGY STAR certified products. Over two
dozen blog posts, Tweets, and Facebook posts were
issued in coordination with bloggers.
•	Achieving energy savings of more than 92,500 MWh
through the Massachusetts and Rhode Island ENERGY
STAR Lighting and Products programs.
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South Carolina Electric & Gas Company
Cayce, South Carolina
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), serving
over 489,000 residential electricity customers in South
Carolina, launched its Home Performance with ENERGY
STAR (HPwES) program in April 2011. The HPwES program
was designed to reduce peak cooling kW and total
kWh consumption, while introducing and encouraging
the whole-house approach to home improvement to
customers and contractors. SCE&G is receiving ENERGY
STAR Excellence recognition for continuing to promote
and expand its Home Performance with ENERGY STAR
program. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
•	Completing approximately 600 comprehensive audits
and 260 HPwES projects.
•	Distributing extensive homeowner materials to
contractors to help them explain the program, incentive
structure, application process, terms and conditions,
marketing collateral, and required documents to
potential customers.
•	Utilizing geo-targeting and direct mail to reach
customers that have a higher propensity to participate,
reaching 10,000 customers who are in the top quartile
of annual electric consumption in their market.
•	Offering $2,500 in incentive rebates for energy
efficiency upgrades completed by participating
contractors in the HPwES program, including designing
a Comfort Home Package to encourage customers to
choose whole-house scopes of work with corresponding
greater energy savings.
•	Employing a team of account managers to work with
participating contractors to inform them of program
updates, discuss quality assurance findings, deliver
software training and support, and provide in-field ride-
along support.
•	Offering individualized training sessions to participating
contractors designed to enhance both their marketing
and technical skill sets.
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Milford Housing Development Corporation
Milford, Delaware
Milford Affordable Housing Development (MAHD) is a value-
driven, nonprofit developer of affordable housing in Delaware
with a mission to provide affordable housing solutions to people
of modest means. MAHD is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition
for its dedication to making homeownership more affordable
through ENERGY STAR and its Self-Help Housing program. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
•	Developing 20 Self-Help homeownership units in 2012,
all of which were built to EPA's more stringent Version 3.0
requirements for ENERGY STAR certified homes.
•	Lowering monthly utility costs of homeowners by approximately
$50—$70 compared to the estimated costs in comparable non-
certified homes, while also increasing homeowner comfort.
•	Committing to build 100 percent of all new housing units
to ENERGY STAR specifications, including both rental and
homeownership units.
•	Receiving recognition from the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) for outstanding efforts in energy
efficiency through HUD's Self-Help Housing Program (SHOP).
•	Promoting its ENERGY STAR partnership on its website,
providing homeowners with ENERGY STAR home certificates,
and placing ENERGY STAR plaques on each home so
homeowners can proudly acknowledge their certified homes.
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Cree, Inc.
Durham, North Carolina
Cree, Inc. is a market-leading innovator of LED lighting products
and emphasizes the importance of ENERGY STAR certification in
its development of LED lighting solutions. Cree, Inc. is receiving
ENERGY STAR recognition for its exemplary efforts in the area
of cutting edge efficiency and product innovation. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
• Demonstrating focus on innovation with the introduction of the
most efficient ENERGY STAR certified downlight in 2012.
•	Increasing the number of ENERGY STAR certified models by 686
percent compared to 2011.
•	Seeking accreditation and earning EPA recognition for two
internal laboratories for testing integral LED lamps and
luminaires.
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Metro Lighting
Brentwood, Missouri
As Missouri's largest lighting distributor, Metro Lighting's
efforts to promote the sale of ENERGY STAR certified
lighting products distinguishes it as an industry leader.
Metro Lighting is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition
for its noteworthy efforts in training and education on
energy-efficient lighting and ENERGY STAR. Key 2012
accomplishments include:
•	Stocking more than 200 ENERGY STAR certified
lighting fixtures and bulbs, including a variety of ceiling
fans, vent fans, decorative fixtures, LED bulbs, and
commercial light fixtures.
•	Leveraging a strong partnership with the local utility
to offer incentives for ENERGY STAR certified lighting
products, including an instant rebate on ENERGY STAR
certified light fixtures.
•	Providing extensive employee education on ENERGY
STAR certified lighting products through numerous
vendor and utility collaborations and creative training
tactics.
•	Increasing consumer knowledge of energy-efficient
lighting through updated Web content, in-store
materials, and several community events, including the
Metro Lighting Show Me LED event, the St. Louis Earth
Day festival, and the Missouri Botanical Garden's Green
Home Great Health Fair.
•	Demonstrating leadership in environmental stewardship
through facilitating the recycling of more than 37,000
light bulbs, and installing electric vehicle charging
stations in showroom parking lots and solar panels on
the flagship showroom rooftop.
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Naperville, Illinois
Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Program (Nicor) is a natural gas
distribution company serving more than 2 million customers in
northern Illinois. Nicor leverages ENERGY STAR to inform and
strengthen its program delivery and to foster ENERGY STAR
recognition and credibility among customers—62 percent of
Nicor's programs are linked to ENERGY STAR. Nicor is receiving
ENERGY STAR recognition for actively collaborating with other
efficiency programs offered by Illinois utilities arid state agencies
to provide customer-centered, rather than single-fuel, energy-
efficiency solutions. Key 2012 accomplishments include:
• Working with other utilities to develop and deliver to the
market a state-wide commercial foodservice (CFS) fact sheet
highlighting ENERGY STAR certified and other efficient products
for commercial kitchens. To better compete with the used CFS
equipment market, Nicor also redesigned incentives so that
its rebate plus the energy savings overcome the initial price
differential of new equipment.
•	Coordinating with ComEd to promote the simultaneous
purchase of ENERGY STAR certified central air conditioning and
furnace equipment while offering additional incentives for the
purchase of models recognized as ENERGY STAR Most Efficient
2012.
•	Recruiting, to date, more than 75,000 customers to participate
in Nicor efficiency programs, collectively saving $3.8 million in
energy expenses.
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Rocky Mountain Power
Salt Lake City, Utah
Rocky Mountain Power is a large electric utility that operates
PacifiCorp's Utah service territory that has been promoting
the construction of ENERGY STAR certified homes since 2005.
In 2012, Rocky Mountain Power redesigned their new home
efficiency program to be better positioned to continue providing
incentives, training, and marketing to the new home-building
community. Rocky Mountain Power is receiving ENERGY STAR
recognition for its innovative marketing and outreach strategy. Key
2012 accomplishments include:
• Incentivizing over 1,200 homes for a total of more than 10,000
ENERGY STAR certified homes and saving homeowners more
than 20 million kWh since the program's inception.
•	Partnering with local and state Home Builder Associations and
local manufacturers to provide low-cost outreach marketing and
builder trainings.
•	Providing on-site training to HVAC contractors as needed to
help contractors understand the requirements of the HVAC
checklist.
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Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence
Partners who have received ENERGY STAR recognition
for multiple years and have gone above and beyond the
criteria needed to qualify for recognition are honored
with the award for Sustained Excellence. This year
partners received awards for Sustained Excellence in
the categories of Energy Efficiency Program Delivery,
Energy Management, New Home Construction, Product
Manufacturer, Product Retailer, and Service and Product
Providers.
Partner of the Year—Energy Efficiency Program
Delivery
This award recognizes utilities, state agencies, regional
energy efficiency nonprofit organizations, associations,
and other organizations that sponsor sustained energy
efficiency and environmental programs. These winning
organizations have demonstrated excellence in
implementing comprehensive, high performing energy
efficiency programs. These programs have directly
leveraged ENERGY STAR as a strategy to effectively
reduce market barriers and to achieve significant impact
in the marketplace for advancing energy efficiency and
related greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
This award recognizes organizations in four program
categories:
1.	Residential New Construction—programs that
promote the construction of ENERGY STAR
certified new homes through activities such as:
implementing consumer education and awareness
campaigns: providing training for new home industry
professionals on energy efficiency and building
science principles: and offering incentives to builders
or consumers for the construction of ENERGY STAR
qualified homes.
2.	Home Performance with ENERGY STAR:
•	Emerging Markets—programs that recently signed
a Partnership Agreement and reported at least 50
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR jobs in
2012.
•	Established Markets—programs that have
reported at least 1000 Home Performance with
ENERGY STAR jobs, and have demonstrated
market and program sustainability.
3.	Qualifying Products—programs that are designed to
overcome market barriers to widespread adoption of
ENERGY STAR qualifying commercial and residential
products and/or related best practices, such as
power management of office equipment or consumer
education on proper thermostat use.
4.	Commercial and Industrial—programs that deliver
improved whole-building energy performance in
existing buildings, target and track performance
in new construction, and/or achieve facility-wide
improvement in industrial plants by using ENERGY
STAR tools and resources to overcome market
barriers.
Organizations receiving this award have demonstrated:
1.	A strong program design with clear goals, a strategy
for overcoming market barriers to achieve sustained
market change, and an approach that is a best
practice for the market.
2.	Incorporation of the ENERGY STAR platform—
messaging, tools, and strategies—into the initiative.
3.	Qualitative and quantitative data supporting market
change or likely upcoming market change, as a result
of the initiative. Examples of market effects include:
•	An increase in sales or market share of ENERGY
STAR qualifying products.
•	Energy savings, peak demand reductions, and air
pollution reductions achieved through residential,
commercial, and/or industrial sector programs that
explicitly leverage ENERGY STAR.
•	An increase in the use of EPAs ENERGY STAR
energy performance scale, increase in buildings
earning the ENERGY STAR, and achievement of
ENERGY STAR Leaders recognition for commercial
buildings by program participants.
•	An increase in percentage of new homes built
to ENERGY STAR guidelines and/or growth in
percentage of housing starts that later earn the
ENERGY STAR.
Partners who have been awarded the Partner of the Year
distinction for multiple years and gone above and beyond
the criteria needed to qualify for recognition are honored
with the award for Sustained Excellence for Energy
Efficiency Program Delivery.
Partner of the Year—Energy Management
This award recognizes ENERGY STAR partners
from commercial, industrial, institutional, and other
organizations that demonstrate improved energy
performance of buildings and plants through a corporate-
wide energy program—as proven by work completed
and energy savings—during the 2012 calendar year.
Applications are evaluated in three categories:
1. Management Practices—use of best practices in
managing energy, as demonstrated through:
• Implementation of each fundamental element of
superior energy management described in the
ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management.
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•	Current energy efficiency projects, energy management
strategies, and integration of ENERGY STAR tools and
resources into the organization's energy program.
•	Promotion of additional energy savings at the local and/
or national level by engaging external organizations and
offering expertise to improve their energy performance.
2.	Organization-wide Improvements—actual energy
performance improvements achieved during 2012, taking
into account both the magnitude of improvements (measured
via change in energy intensity across the portfolio) and
current energy performance relative to organizational
peers. Energy savings must also be expressed in business,
financial, and environmental metrics.
3.	Promoting and Communicating Success— demonstrated
ability to promote partnership with ENERGY STAR and
communicate energy efficiency to customers, employees,
guests, tenants, students, and community through:
•	Use of ENERGY STAR messaging and resources in their
communications strategies.
•	Participation in EPA recognition opportunities, such
as earning the ENERGY STAR or obtaining ENERGY
STAR Leaders recognition, and promotion of those
achievements.
•	Direct communications with organization and external
stakeholders, and publicizing efforts to media through
various activities such as press releases, internal
and external website updates, energy-related events,
producing/distributing collateral about ENERGY STAR,
reaching out to state and local government officials, etc.
Partners who have been awarded the Partner of the Year
distinction for multiple years and gone above and beyond the
criteria needed to qualify for recognition are honored with the
award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management.
Partner of the Year—Home Energy Rater
This award recognizes ENERGY STAR Provider and Home
Energy Rater partners who have demonstrated excellence and
innovation in participating in the ENERGY STAR New Homes
program. Home Energy Raters and Providers receiving this award
are evaluated on the following categories:
1.	Builder Recruitment—direct contribution to the growth of
ENERGY STAR builders and developers in an organization's
market, as measured through the number of builders
recruited and ENERGY STAR certified homes verified in the
past year.
2.	Builder Marketing and Sales Support— demonstration of
robust effort to help builders increase consumer awareness
and participation in ENERGY STAR outreach efforts, and
presentation of training to real estate professionals.
3.	Builder Technical Support—demonstration of the
organization's efforts to provide technical training to
builders.
4.	Innovation—description of the unique approaches that the
organization took in implementing and promoting ENERGY
STAR in its market.
5.	Letter of Recommendation—this letter of recommendation
must be from a builder client who is also an ENERGY STAR
partner to describe their experience in working with the
partner.
Partners who have been awarded the Partner of the Year
distinction for multiple years and gone above and beyond the
criteria needed to qualify for recognition are honored with the
award for Sustained Excellence for Home Energy Raters.
Partner of the Year—New Home Builder
This award recognizes ENERGY STAR home builder partners
who have demonstrated excellence and innovation in building
and promoting ENERGY STAR certified homes. Organizations
receiving this award are evaluated across the following criteria:
1.	Promotional and Marketing Collateral—materials developed
to promote and market ENERGY STAR new homes in the
organization's market.
2.	New Homes Technical Training—construction staff and
subcontractors are prepared to build ENERGY STAR certified
homes.
3.	New Homes Sales and Marketing Training—sales
employees and real estate professionals are prepared to
communicate the benefits of ENERGY STAR certified homes
and promote them to potential homebuyers.
4.	Program Innovation—unique approaches to implementing
and promoting ENERGY STAR in the organization's market.
5.	Letter of Recommendation—this letter of recommendation
must be from the organization's Home Energy Rater to
describe his/her experience in working with the builder
partner.
Partners who have been awarded the Partner of the Year
distinction for multiple years and gone above and beyond the
criteria needed to qualify for recognition are honored with the
award for Sustained Excellence for New Home Builders.
Partner of the Year—Product Manufacturer
This award recognizes ENERGY STAR partners who manufacture
qualified products and have furthered the goals of ENERGY STAR
through their active participation in the program.
Applications are evaluated in the following categories:
1. Product Qualification Efforts:
•	Number of ENERGY STAR qualified models/units available
in 2012 and 2011, and percentage change over previous
year.
•	Percentage of product lines that are ENERGY STAR
qualified.
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•	Percentage of total sales that were ENERGY STAR
qualified in 2012 and 2011, and percentage change
over previous year.
•	Availability of information concerning new ENERGY
STAR models qualified or in development in 2012.
•	Innovation in product design for energy efficiency.
2.	Labeling Efforts:
•	Minimum labeling requirements are met on
products, packaging, website, user manuals, etc.
•	Demonstration of activities that go above and
beyond minimum labeling requirements.
•	Number of qualified models and displays carrying
the label (manufacturers of windows, doors, and
skylights).
3.	Training Efforts:
•	Integration of ENERGY STAR into organization's
sales force and employee training, including
number of organization new and existing
employees reached, as well as number of
distributor and retailer locations trained.
•	Cooperation with distributors, retailers, or utility/
state/ regional partners to increase ENERGY STAR
information in retail/distributor product knowledge
training.
•	Collaboration with EPA/DOE in the development of
training activities.
4.	Sales and Marketing:
•	Demonstration of ENERGY STAR integration in
exhibits, presentations, and other gatherings.
•	Leadership or participation in cooperative
promotions.
•	ENERGY STAR-themed community outreach
activities, advertising, public relations efforts,
special events, and press releases
•	Print, radio, television, direct mail advertising,
brochures, Web and social media (YouTube,
Facebook, Twitter, blogs) with ENERGY STAR
messages.
•	Point-of-Purehase (POP) materials.
•	Inclusion of environmental messaging in any of the
above activities.
5.	Consumer/End User Education:
•	Innovation in educational efforts that go above
and beyond simple ENERGY STAR logo use and
messaging.
•	Development of educational content to include
in YouTube videos, blogs, social media sites, and
other Web pages, brochures, pamphlets, etc.
6. Cross-cutting Efforts Incorporated Into Company
Practices:
•	Participation or leadership in revising and
developing new ENERGY STAR specifications.
•	Offering recycling of products and/or packaging or
developing in-house recycling programs.
•	Participation in the development of data tools such
as Find-A-Product and provision of product and
marketing data using these tools.
•	Commitment to organization-wide facility energy
efficiency improvements.
•	Procurement of energy-efficient and/or ENERGY
STAR certified products.
•	Implementation of energy efficiency improvements
in organization facility and pursuit of ENERGY
STAR certification for buildings. Giving preference
to ENERGY STAR certified buildings when leasing
space.
•	Participation in other EPA partnership programs,
such as Low Carbon IT, SmartWay, and Green
Power Partnership.
•	Pursue ENERGY STAR certification for building or
give preference to leasing space from ENERGY
STAR certified buildings.
•	Offering innovative product design.
•	Commitment to protecting the integrity of the
ENERGY STAR brand.
Partners who have been awarded the Partner of the Year
distinction for multiple years and gone above and beyond
the criteria needed to qualify for recognition are honored
with the award for Sustained Excellence for Product
Manufacturer.
Partner of the Year—Product Retailer
This award recognizes retailers that have made an
extensive commitment to the growing success of ENERGY
STAR. These partners have excelled in the following
areas:
1. ENERGY STAR strategy:
•	Integrating ENERGY STAR into corporate strategy
across all relevant product categories.
•	Clearly articulating ENERGY STAR marketing
strategy that includes specific goals, tactics,
schedules and evaluation.
•	Engaging and collaborating with EPA to optimize
ENERGY STAR partnerships strategically and
tactically.
•	Helping to advance ENERGY STAR program goals
through specific ENERGY STAR partner activities.
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•	Reporting progress and achieving outlined goals.
2.	Product Specification and Stocking:
•	Working to increase stock, specification, and sales of
ENERGY STAR qualified products through active merchant
engagement, development of goals, coordination with
vendors, and regular reporting on progress.
3.	Sales Associate Training: Leveraging sales associates to help
educate and promote ENERGY STAR to customers in store,
including integrating ENERGY STAR content into all existing
training tactics across all relevant product categories.
•	Collaborating with EPA at the beginning of the planning
cycle to develop a clearly articulated ENERGY STAR
training plan with specific goals, tactics, schedules, and
evaluation.
•	Working with vendors or utility/state/regional partners to
increase ENERGY STAR sales associate training.
•	Reporting progress and achieving outlined goals.
•	Utilizing training efforts that include ENERGY STAR across
different mediums such as publications, TV, Web-based,
in-person, and more.
4.	Product Labeling and Marketing/Promotions:
•	Effective leveraging of all relevant marketing/promotions
tactics to help educate and promote ENERGY STAR among
customers.
•	Participating in EPA's Change the World, Start with
ENERGY STAR campaign.
•	Utilizing ENERGY STAR marketing efforts in-store and on
the organization's website including displays, signage, in-
store radio/Muzak/TV, clinics/events, collateral, and more.
5.	Evaluation:
•	Cooperation in supporting EPA's efforts to evaluate its
ENERGY STAR program's success.
•	Conducting evaluative studies relevant to ENERGY STAR,
energy efficiency, and the environment from a retailer
perspective.
•	Evaluation of ENERGY STAR partnership and the value of
ENERGY STAR to marketing efforts and reporting of these
results to ENERGY STAR.
Partners who have been awarded the Partner of the Year
distinction for multiple years and gone above and beyond the
criteria needed to qualify for recognition are honored with the
award for Sustained Excellence for Product Retailers.
Partner of the Year—Service and Product Provider
This award recognizes businesses and organizations that are the
catalysts—the ones that provide the products, services, and/
or effective outreach efforts to help companies or public sector
organizations strategically manage their energy use or to design
buildings with superior energy efficiency. Service and Product
Providers assist their customers to improve energy performance in
existing buildings/manufacturing plants and new building designs.
These partners have excelled in the following areas:
1.	Organization and Business Practices:
•	Utilizing ENERGY STAR partnership to differentiate
organization and improve business relationships with
customers.
•	Alignment of organization's mission and ENERGY STAR
program.
•	Delivering energy efficiency in buildings designs and
existing buildings.
•	Integration of ENERGY STAR tools and resources in
business practices.
2.	Measurement and Efficiency:
•	Partners provide information on energy-efficient design
projects and/or energy improvements in existing buildings.
3.	Marketing and Recognition
•	Integrating ENERGY STAR into marketing materials and
strategies to attract new clients and/or maintain existing
clients.
•	Recruiting clients and other affiliates to become ENERGY
STAR partners.
•	Promoting ENERGY STAR at conferences, events, internal
and external training, marketing materials and publications,
etc.
•	Marketing Collateral—marketing materials and website
include ENERGY STAR logo and messaging.
Helping clients gain recognition for achieving energy efficiency
and enhanced performance in design projects and/or existing
buildings. Partners who have received ENERGY STAR recognition
for multiple years and gone above and beyond the criteria needed
to qualify for Partner of the Year are honored with the award for
Sustained Excellence for Service and Product Providers.
Excellence—ENERGY STAR Promotion
This award recognizes organizations that have planned and
executed a successful promotion or consumer education campaign
around an ENERGY STAR qualified product category, series of
products, or ENERGY STAR at large. Organizations receiving this
award must have executed a promotion, consumer awareness, or
social marketing campaign in calendar year 2012 that:
1.	Leverages EPA's Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR
national campaign for ENERGY STAR product or "practices"
messaging.
2.	Uses the ENERGY STAR label properly to increase consumer
recognition and understanding of its meaning.
3.	Distinguishes ENERGY STAR as a government-backed
label associated with energy efficiency and environmental
protection.
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4.	Demonstrates visual consistency with the national
ENERGY STAR identity.
5.	Implements tactics that leverage ENERGY STAR to
create repeat sales in a sustainable manner and,
ultimately, influence market share. Provides evidence
of retail sales staff training on ENERGY STAR, where
appropriate.
6.	Engages in media activities that enhance relevant
consumer understanding of ENERGY STAR.
4. Outreach and Education—encouraging other
individuals or organizations to pursue greater energy-
efficiency as part of their affordable housing efforts.
Utilized the ENERGY STAR name and logo in outreach
efforts, materials, and at events.
Organizations also had the option to provide additional
information about energy-efficient retrofits supported in
2012 and other sustainability initiatives. This information
was supplemental and not required as part of the award
criteria.
Excellence—Affordable Housing
This award recognizes governments, nonprofits,
nongovernmental organizations, public housing
authorities, or utilities that have made exceptional
or market-leading contributions during 2012 toward
advancing energy efficiency in publicly funded, low-
income housing by constructing ENERGY STAR certified
homes or promoting construction of ENERGY STAR
certified homes through affordable housing policies and
programs.
Organizations receiving this award have leveraged
funding sources to pay for energy efficiency features in
affordable housing for low-income families, and have met
the following criteria:
1.	Demonstrated Success—demonstrating quantifiable
success in the organization's affordable housing
programs, policies, and projects in 2012 as measured
through:
•	The number of new ENERGY STAR certified
homes built and a comparison to previous years,
as well as the total number of homes built by the
organization in 2012.
•	Cost-benefit data associated with building
ENERGY STAR certified homes and a description
of the organization's residential energy efficiency
milestones and goals that were met or will likely
be met in 2012.
2.	Institutional Change—creating significant and lasting
change to the organization through efforts to build
ENERGY STAR certified homes or encourage the
construction of these homes via housing programs
and policies as demonstrated through a description
of why the organization made these changes, how
it was able to implement these changes including
institutional or fiscal challenges or barriers
encountered, how these barriers were overcome, and
lessons learned.
3.	Housing Affordability—providing a description of the
target market for the organization's housing programs
and the public funding sources leveraged to pay for
energy efficiency activities and how those funds were
sou reed and utilized.
Excellence—Lighting Retailer or Showroom
This award recognizes lighting retailers or showrooms
stocking and promoting ENERGY STAR certified light
fixtures, and qualified lamps, of all technologies. These
organizations have demonstrated outstanding effort
and achieved noteworthy success selling ENERGY STAR
certified lighting products through the following activities.
1.	Product Selection—providing goals/targets for
increasing stock of ENERGY STAR certified lighting
products, working with vendors to increase stock, and
reporting progress in meeting goals.
2.	Sales Associate Training—integrating ENERGY STAR
into training strategy and in all existing training
vehicles. As appropriate, working with vendors
or other local partners to expand sales associate
knowledge about ENERGY STAR.
3.	In-Store Marketing—displaying the ENERGY STAR
label and messaging on in-store displays, signage,
and at consumer educational events.
4.	Ex-Store Marketing—implementing a variety of
marketing efforts (broadcast, print, direct mail, Web
promotions) to reach audiences beyond the store.
Other Excellence Awards
1.	Excellence in Energy-Efficient Product Design—this
award recognizes important contributions to raising
the visibility of ENERGY STAR by leading industry
in the design and manufacture of ENERGY STAR
qualified products across a broad range of categories.
2.	Excellence in Retailing—this award recognizes
retailers who display exceptional commitment to
ENERGY STAR across their corporate strategy,
product selection, sales associate training, marketing,
public relations efforts, and evaluation.
Special Recognition
These certificates recognize organizations that have
made significant contributions toward advancing energy
efficiency in specific areas of the marketplace.
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Companies and Organizations Mentioned in the Report
3M Company	16
AEP Ohio	43
AEP Texas Central	7
Air Force Medical Support Agency- Health Facilities Division	52
Air King, Ltd	57
Allergan, Inc	49
Amerlux	64
Andersen Corporation	33
APS (Arizona Public Service)	7
ArcelorMittal USA	16
Austin Energy	8
AVR Homebuilders	56
Beacon Capital Partners, LLC	49
Bentall Kennedy	17
Bosch Home Appliances Corporation	33
Brandywine Realty Trust	50
Building Owners and Managers Association (B0MA) International	9
Burton Energy Group	62
CalPortland Company	17
Cassidy Turley	50
CBRE, Inc	18
Cenergistic	37
CenterPoint Energy	9
Cleveland Clinic	18
Colgate-Palmolive Company	19
Columbia Gas of Ohio	43
ComEd	10
Constellation Energy/Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE)	8
Cree, Inc	66
Des Moines Public Schools	51
DIRECTV	58
Dominion East Ohio	44
Eastman Chemical Company	51
Ecova	38
El Paso Electric	44
Energy Inspectors Corporation	40
Energy Services Group	48
EnergyCAP, Inc	38
EnergyLogic	40
Entergy Texas	45
Evergreen Public Schools	19
Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc	63
Focus on Energy	10
Food Lion, Bottom Dollar Food, Harveys and Reid's	20
FSL Home Energy Solutions	64
GE Lighting	34
General Motors	20
Grayhawk Homes, Inc	57
G res ham-Barlow School District	21
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville	41
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver	42
Hanesbrands Inc	21
HEI Hotels & Resorts	22
Hines	22
Hoshizaki America, Inc	58
ITW Food Equipment Group	34
Ivey Residential, LLC	31
J. C. Penney Company, Inc	23
Jones Lang LaSalle	23
KB Home	32
Kenton County School District	52
Kohl's Department Stores, Inc	24
KPPC - Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center	11
LG Electronics, Inc	59
LG&E and KU	12
Liberty Property Trust	53
Long Island Power Authority (LIPA)	11
Loudoun County Public Schools	24
Lowe's Companies, Inc	36
Manitowoc Foodservice	35
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System	53
Merck	25
Meritage Homes	32
Metro Lighting	67
Milford Housing Development Corporation	66
National Grid	65
Nationwide Marketing Group	47
New Hampshire CORE Utilities	47
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities	12
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)	13
New York-Presbyterian Hospital	25
Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Program	68
Nissan North America, Inc	26
North Penn School District	54
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Inc. (NEEP)	13
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA)	14
Pacific Gas and Electric Company	14
Panasonic Eco Solutions North America	35
PECO Energy Company	45
Pel la Corporation	59
PepsiCo, Inc	26
Philips Lighting Company	60
ProVia	60
Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO)	15
Raytheon Company	27
Rocky Mountain Power	68
Saint-Gobain	27
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd	36
Scotsman Ice Systems	61
Scott County Schools	54
Sears Holdings Corporation	28,37
Servidyne	39
Sharp Electronics Corporation	61
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company	65
Southern California Edison	15
Southern Energy Management	41
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO)	46
Staples, Inc	28
Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP)	62
The Boeing Company	29
The Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund with Ul and CL&P	46
The E Group, a Division of FirstEnergy Solutions Corp	39
The Home Depot	48
TIAA-CREF	29
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc	30
TRANSWESTERN	30
USAA Real Estate Company	31
Verizon Wireless	55
Vornado Realty Trust	55
Wells Real Estate Funds	56
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