Catalyst 2016: Benchmarking with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
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Best practices for benchmarking buildings in Portfolio Manager using EnergyCAP web services to exchange building characteristics and billing data.
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Catalyst 2016: Benchmarking with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
- 1. Submitting Data to Portfolio Manager from EnergyCAP Adam Hegedus CIO and VP of Information Technology, Developer of the ENERGYSTAR Submission engine EnergyCAP, Inc. ©2016 EnergyCAP, Inc.
- 3. What is ENERGY STAR? ENERGY STAR is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) voluntary program that helps businesses and individuals save money and protect our environment through superior energy efficiency
- 4. What is ENERGY STAR? The ENERGY STAR label is now on major appliances, office equipment, lighting, home electronics, new homes and commercial and industrial buildings and plants
- 5. What is Portfolio Manager? Online tool to measure and track basic energy and water consumption.
- 6. What is Portfolio Manager? Compare your building to others and benchmark your performance.
- 7. What is Portfolio Manager? Required by Local, State, and Federal legislation.
- 9. Portfolio Manager History Previous version had a very poorly documented interface to external services. EnergyCAP was written to support this format Getting ratings took a long time. When PM changed, a significant effort was required to modify EnergyCAP to support the new API. Some residuals of these changes still exist.
- 11. Portfolio Manager Strengths Portfolio Manager is actively developed.
- 12. Portfolio Manager Strengths Significantly faster than previous releases.
- 13. Portfolio Manager Strengths Portfolio Manager supports 80 different building types.
- 14. Portfolio Manager Strengths Good documentation and support.
- 16. Portfolio Manager Weaknesses Portfolio Manager isn’t very flexible.
- 17. Portfolio Manager Weaknesses Portfolio Manager doesn’t support overlapping bills.
- 18. Portfolio Manager Weaknesses ENERGY STAR Score only applies for certain building types.
- 19. Eligible U.S. Building Types Bank Branch Barracks Courthouse Dormitory/Residence Hall Financial Office Data Center K-12 School Hospital Hotel Medical Office Multifamily Housing Office Residence Hall/Dormitory Retail Store Senior Care Community Supermarket/Grocery Store Warehouse/Distribution Center Wastewater Treatment Plant Wholesale Club/Super-center Worship Facility
- 20. Eligible Canadian Property Types Financial Office K-12 School Hospital Medical Office Office Residential Care Facility Supermarket/Grocery Store
- 21. Where does EnergyCAP fit in?
- 22. Where does EnergyCAP fit in? EnergyCAP’s goal is to fill in the gaps that Portfolio Manager has.
- 23. Where does EnergyCAP fit in? Built to fit more real-world energy management situations.
- 24. Where does EnergyCAP fit in? We’re continuously working to make the process better.
- 25. Where does EnergyCAP fit in? One-way sync!
- 26. Demonstration Or, “We’re required by our state to submit to PM…what now?”
- 27. Steps to Submit to ENERGYSTAR • Check that the schema is up to date • Enter or update ENERGYSTAR Building properties • Submit – Select all or a set of buildings – Select all data or data after a date • Check your email for results • Retrieve your results into EnergyCAP • Make necessary changes and re-submit
- 28. Check your email
- 29. Check your email
- 30. Check your email
- 31. Check your email
- 32. Why didn’t my property receive a rating?
- 33. Overlapping bills? “Meter(s) with overlaps in meter entries.”
- 34. Missing bills? “There is not 12 full months of meter data.”
- 35. Invalid building properties? “Weekly Operating Hours is outside the allowed range.” “Number of Computers is too small.”
- 36. Not eligible? “More than 50% of the Gross Floor Area is not a single Property Type that is eligible for a 1-100 score.”
- 37. What are Portfolio Manager Submission Errors?
- 38. “Please provide a positive value for the usage.” “Value is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration”? “Invalid content was found starting with element.” “Property use does not exist.” “The content of element 'useDetails' is not complete.”
- 39. Questions
Editor's Notes
- How many of you have submitted to energystar through energycap? How many have not done it, but need to start? One of the hardest things I have to do is not use the wrong word… so if i say energycap instead of energystar.. I apologize! Lets start with the basics…
- So ESTAR was started to find ways to save money and protect the earth, and they did it by certifying devices. Does anyone know what the first device that was energystar certified was?
- Which brings us to portfolio manager. When buildings started to get energystar scores, they needed a way to put energy consumption into the system, so portfolio manager was born.
- Is anyone here required to submit buildings to energystar?
- The EPA releases new updates to PM twice per year. They add new building types and features
- It used to take up to hours to get a rating for a building after the data was submitted We would have to continuously check for the results. Now the ratings are available as soon as we submit the data
- PM also has weaknesses
- We have many customers that have issues with portfolio manager because of the restrictions they have. For instance…
- In the real world, it’s reasonable to have things like rebills, or corrected bills. Deregulated accounts will have multiple bills. These are valid situations, but PM doesn’t support them.
- 80 building types, but only a small subset are actually able to get an ESTAR score.
- These are the types of buildings that can get a rating in the US. There’s an even smaller set that are available in Canada
- Single point of entry to get all of your data into PM instead of having one product for benchmarking and a separate one for managing.
- EnergyCAP is used in many different ways. Our implementation staff works very hard to get ECAP set up to work for our customers. This is not easy. We try our best to have the logic necessary to translate your data into data that PM will be happy with
- Energystar is constantly evolving, and so are we. We work hard to keep up with changes and decisions that estar makes.
- Very important to note that the interface between PM and ECAP is one way. Changes that are made in PM and not in ECAP can be overwritten.
- Now you check your email and you should get something like this. It will be broken down into sections, a section for each building. You may see this:
- Which means you were able to submit successfully and there were no errors or you’ll see this:
- Where you have something that is keeping you from getting a rating. Or at the bottom of the email, you may see this
- These are errors that keeping a building from even getting submitted to energystar.
- So lets dig into these a bit.
- Do you have a meter that you forgot to exclude from PM?