United States
Environmental Protection Agency
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October 2002
Money isrft Ai I You' re Saving
Are you Energy Star?
Find out by going to
www.energystar.gov
and clicking on
"Benchmarking Your
Building" under "For
Government."
ENERGY STAR®
Executive Order 13123, and You
www.energystar.gov
Tips for Federal Managers
ENERGY STAR figures prominently in Executive
Order 13123, Greening the Government through
Efficient Energy Management. This fact sheet
explains how ENERGY STAR can help your federal
agency meet the requirements of the Executive
Order, while saving money. The US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the
US Department of Energy (DOE) have
established ENERGY STAR for office buildings,
hospitals, homes, K-12 schools, and over 30
categories of products. Additional buildings types
and products are constantly being evaluated for
inclusion in ENERGY STAR.
Act Now to Become Energy Star
Executive Order Sec. 403 (c) requires agencies to:
•	Strive to meet ENERGY STAR criteria where cost
effective for energy performance and indoor
environmental quality.
•	Use the ENERGY STAR performance rating
system for buildings in general facility audits.
How To Comply: Use EPA's online rating system,
available at www.energystar.gov, to evaluate your
buildings' energy performance using data that you
input on each building's physical attributes,
operating characteristics, and monthly energy
consumption. The rating system allows you to
benchmark your buildings on a 1 to 100 scale.
The results will help you set energy performance
targets and plan building upgrades. Buildings that
score a 75 or higher and maintain an indoor air
environment that meets or exceeds industry
standards are eligible to receive the ENERGY STAR
label, the nationally recognized symbol of superior
energy performance.
Specific Next Steps \ou Can Take
•	Benchmark all office buildings and schools over
5,000 sq. ft.
•	Apply for ENERGY STAR labels for all buildings
that score 75 or better.
•	For buildings that score below 75, develop a
plan to upgrade these facilities and improve
their performance rating.
•	After upgrades, re-benchmark each building to
measure progress.
Look for Energy Star When Leasing
Buildings
Executive Order Sec. 403 (e) directs agencies to:
•	Include a preference for buildings with the
ENERGY Star label in selection criteria for
acquiring leased buildings.
•	Encourage lessors to apply for the ENERGY
STAR label.
Incorporate ENERGY STAR in Your Solicitations
for Offers or Advertisements
The General Services Administration (GSA) uses
the following language in Solicitations for Offers
to ensure that leased office space is compliant with
this section of the Executive Order. If your agency
is acquiring such space, using this language will
help ensure your compliance with Section 403 (e).
"(a) All offerors are encouraged to use Energy
Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs) or utility
agreements to achieve, maintain and/or exceed the
ENERGY Star benchmark score of 75 and are
encouraged to include shared savings in their offer
as a result of energy upgrades where applicable.
(b) All new construction shall achieve an ENERGY
STAR label within one year after reaching 95
percent occupancy and continue to maintain the
level of performance."
To ensure that offerors' ESPCs and GSA areawide
agreements help your buildings become ENERGY
STAR:
•	Require a Statement of Energy
Performance from the ENERGY STAR
performance rating system as part of the
offer package for new leases. Use energy
efficiency as one of the criteria for
comparing buildings and ranking offers.
•	For buildings scoring less than 75, require
periodic Statements of Energy Performance
to ensure that energy upgrades are
occurring and performance is improving
over time. Include a percent improvement
measure on your ranking scale for offers.
•	Require new building offers to include
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Energy Star is the
government-backed symbol
for energy efficiency.
Energy Star offers
organizations, businesses,
and consumers energy-
efficient solutions that save
money while protecting the
environment. By using
Energy Star to increase
energy efficiency at work
and at home, every
individual can help protect
the environment now and
for future generations.
If your organization would
like to learn how efficient a
building is, how to remodel
an existing building to
improve its energy
efficiency, or how to
purchase energy-efficient
products, Energy Star can
help.
Learn more. Visit
www.energystar.gov, or
call the Energy Star Hotline
at 1 -888-STAR-YES
(1-888-782-7937).
•	Stipulate the purchase of facility
management systems or energy management
services to comply with the ENERGY STAR
requirements of Sec. 403 through GSA
schedules 63 I and 871 II at
www.fss. gsa. gov/ envir on/h2o- energy-
prod.cfm#Office.
Purchase Energy Star Products
The Executive Order states that use of ENERGY
STAR labeled products will be part of the scoring
criteria in the OMB energy scorecard [Sec. 306(1)].
The Order directs federal agencies to:
•	Purchase ENERGY STAR labeled products,
when found life-cycle cost effective. For
products not covered by ENERGY STAR,
purchase products that are in the upper 25t^1
percent of energy efficiency as designated by
the Federal Energy Management Program
(FEMP). [Sec. 403 (b.l)]
•	Incorporate ENERGY STAR energy efficiency
levels into guide and project specifications, as
well as into product specification language
developed for Basic Ordering Agreements,
Government Wide Acquisition Contracts,
Blanket Purchasing Agreements, and all
other purchasing procedures [Sec. 403 (b.3)]
•	Purchase ENERGY STAR and FEMP
designated products from your federal supply
sources. The Executive Order states that
GSA and the Defense Logistics Agency
(DLA) shall create clear catalogue listings
that designate energy-efficient products in
both print and electronic formats. [Sec. 403
(b)(2)]
Purchase these ENERGY STAR labeled products
from your federal supply source:
Office Equipment
Audio/Visual Equipment
Compact Fluorescent Lights, Residential Light
Fixtures, and Exit Signs
Low Voltage Transformers
Windows and Roof Products
GSA and DLA are federal supply sources of ENERGY
STAR and FEMP designated products. Energy-
efficient products can be purchased through GSA's
online procurement system, Advantage!
The Energy Solutions Services and Products Guide
from GSA/FSS is available at www.fss.gsa.gov/
environ.
For lighting products offered by DLA, go to
www.dscp.dla.mil/gi / general/lightl .htm.
Purchase Other Energy-Efficient
Products
ENERGY STAR and FEMP have established efficiency
levels for other products not sold through federal
supply sources. For more information on these
products go to www.eren.gov/femp/
procurement or www.eneigystar.gov/products.
Check out Buying Energy Efficient Products, DOE's
federal purchasing buying guide issued by FEMP
This binder has a series of product efficiency
recommendations to identify the upper 25th percent
in energy efficiency. To obtain a free copy, contact 1-
800-363-3732 or go to www.eren.doe.gov/femp/
procurement/begin.html.
For more information, contact 1-888-STAR-YES
(1-888-782-7937) or visit www.eneigystar.gov.
Residential Appliances
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