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ENERGY STAR HOTELS
Rating Your Energy Performance
Use the US EPA's energy performance rating system within Portfolio
Manager to rate the energy performance of your hotels on a scale of
1-100. Rate all of your facilities and update the data regularly to
take control of your energy costs. See top of page two for eligibility
and data needed.
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| ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
| DATA NEEDED
i Fifty percent or more of total space (excluding Garages and
Parking Lots) must be designated as Hotel/Motel space
i No more than 10 percent of floor area designated as
computer data center
i Gross square footage of 5,000 square feet or greater
i Occupied for at least 11 of the last 12 months
i The hotel/motel must contain the number of rooms that
fall within the parameters set forth by the hotel type
i Average annual hotel/motel occupancy rate is greater
than 45 percent
It is very important to select the correct hotel category for a given property. For assistance in making that determination, visit
www.energystar.gov/benchmark, select "Eligibility requirements", and then "Amenity and Category Definitions" for hotels.
i Zip code
i Number of rooms
i Gross floor area
i Year built
i Presence or Absence of On-site cooking and laundry facility
i Average annual occupancy rate
i At least 320 days of energy consumption data for
all fuel types
RATING INTERPRETATION
Establish a baseline for all facilities in your portfolio, then
set improvement goals and create an action plan. Use the
guidance below to determine the appropriate next steps.
1-49 Greatest opportunity for improvement. Investments
in new equipment, combined with aggressive low-
cost operations and maintenance practices could
have the greatest impact on your bottom line.
50-74 Significant opportunity to reap savings. Simple,
low-cost operations and maintenance practices,
combined with equipment upgrades, could yield
significant savings.
75-100 Opportunity to gain recognition and demonstrate
best practices. Continue to improve and maintain
superior performance by focusing on operations
and maintenance.
| HELPFUL HINTS
¦ Enter 12 consecutive months of overlapping energy data
without gaps in time.
¦ When entering data, do not include commas or
other punctuation.
¦ When updating a facility's energy use, enter
the meter name and energy data. Select the correct units
of measurement.
ACCOUNT
INFORMATION
Change your password or user profile.
CONTACTS Maintain contact information for your
energy team.
@)SfNT#CT Use this option or e-mail
buildings@energystar.gov.
¦ ® HELP Access user-support information and get answers.
oEPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
November 2004
430-F-05-004
FEATURES
Consolidate accounts. From the Facility Summary page,
go to "Sharing Data,"
click "Transfer."
Sharing Data
Add user to share this Facility
Modify list of users
Transfer Facility to another user
View entire Access List for this Facility
Share facilities across
accounts. From the Facility Summary page, go to
"Sharing Data," click "Add."
Group Facilities within an account. Determine groups
(e.g., region, facility
type). From the My
Portfolio page, click
"Create Group."
PORTFOLIO MANAGER
Home > Mv Portfolio > ABC Hotel
Generate a Statement of Energy Performance. Use it as a
management report and as a transactional document
Also use it to apply for
the ENERGY STAR label
if eligible. From the
Facility Summary page,
click "Generate"
(see page one).
Statement of Energy Performance
Generate a Statement of Energy
Performance
View Statement of Energy Performance
www.energystar.gov/benchmark
E-mail: buildings@energystar.gov
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