SPARK16 Presentation by Jean Lupinacci – Chief, ENERGY STAR Commercial and Industrial Branch, U.S. EPA

1. Five Steps to Improving Performance
and Efficiency Using Building Data
Jean Lupinacci
Chief
ENERGY STAR Commercial and Industrial Branch

2. Spark16
Five Steps to Improving Performance and Efficiency
Using Building Data
Jean Lupinacci
US Environmental Protection Agency
September 15, 2016

3.  Financial Health
 Environmental Health
WHY ENERGY DATA?

4. Energy Data:
Set of specific objective
facts or observations
Energy Information:
Data endowed with
relevance and purpose
Knowledge:
Information that has been
synthesized and
contextualized to provide
value
DATA SHOULD LEAD TO ACTION

5. Audience? Current level of information?
Actions?
CEO
CFO Employee
Investor
Building
engineer
Student
Align Information to Match Audience
and Desired Action

7. Why Personal Fitness Tracking?
• People want to do something to improve fitness and health
• People like public symbols of fitness
• People need something easy and fun to get moving
• Steps = Movement= GOOD
• Goals, rewards and benchmarks
• Competition fuels continual improvement
• People will move beyond basic after they make a habit

8. Similar to Energy Management?
• People want to improve the environment and their business health
• People need something easy (and fun) to get moving
• Tracking on a regular basis = Good management
• Understand energy usage
• Benchmark, set goals and measure achievement
• Competition and social media fuels continual improvement
• People like public symbols of achievement
• People will move beyond basic after they make a habit

9. Think of EPA’s ENERGY STAR as the Fitbit of
energy management
ENERGY STAR Guidelines for
Energy Management
 Understandable benchmarks and metrics
 Badge of success for top performance
 Motivation for improvement
 Community for energy management
practices

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Cumulative buildings benchmarked
Cumulative Floor Space (millions)
Buildings Benchmarked in EPA’s Portfolio Manager
 Widely Used
 Accessible and low cost entry
 Easy, objective information
 Recognition for achievement

11. Consumer
Awareness 85%

12. Join at energystar.gov.join
6,000+ Partners Commit to Portfolio-Wide Improvement

13. Fitbit Challenge Group
Motivation
encompasses
all types and
activity levels

14. 200+ Energy Service Providers Also Use Web Services
to Help Clients Benchmark with Portfolio Manager
• Energy, Billing, Sustainability, Property/Tenant, Audit/Design,
Business Enterprise, End-users
Learn more at https://www.energystar.gov/buildings/service-providers

15. 5 Ways to use Data to Improve Performance
 Gain a portfolio perspective
 Benchmark performance for context
 Share your performance information
 Communicate your accomplishments to community
 Strive for culture change, not one time improvements
Turn Data into Information, Knowledge and Action