Make Strong Energy Performance Your Competitive Advantage

As guests increasingly demand hotels to implement green practices, take a step further by demonstrating your green credentials when it comes to energy efficiency and combating global climate change.

The ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager is a proven strategy to set performance goals, create and implement action plans, assess performance and progress, and recognize your organization’s achievements.

EcoGreenHotel Sustainability Services understands the operation stress involved in extracting data and information. We will be working with your property and organization to create a process that is the least obtrusive on your operation both on the property as well as in your accounting department.

Energy Star Portfolio Manager Administrative Support Includes:

• Manage and administrate all duties associated in the process to deliver accurate Energy Performance Statement with rating
• Load energy and fuel usage data for the rolling 24 month period
• Load water and sewer usage data for the rolling 24 month period
• Load all other relevant data needed for benchmarking
• Your property's ENERGY STAR score!

To sign up for this service contact us and be sure to mention Energy Star Admin Support in the comment field.

A 10 percent reduction in energy costs is equivalent to increasing ADR by $0.83 for limited service hotels and by $2.45 for full-service hotels.

Benefits of ENERGY STAR Benchmarking:

• Track and assess energy and water consumption
• Identify under-performing hotels
• Verify efficiency improvements
• Receive EPA recognition for superior energy performance

Details of ENERGY STAR Benchmarking:

• Allows hotels of all types (provided it’s atleast 5000 sq ft) to benchmark and track energy performance
• Properties are scored on a 1-100 scale, relative to similar properties nationwide
• Ratings take into account weather, building size, and other operational characteristics
• Hotels achieving a score of 75 or higher are eligible to earn the ENERGY STAR, indicating they have achieved a superior level of energy performance

ENERGY STAR Facts*:

• Almost 4,000 hotel properties have benchmarked using Portfolio Manager
• Over 400 hotels have earned the ENERGY STAR
• Leading online travel companies Travelocity (Green Directory) and Orbitz (eco.orbitz.com) have enhanced their online hotel listing to allow travelers to easily identify properties that have earned the ENERGY STAR
• Marriott International is engaged in an organization-wide benchmarking effort and has earned the ENERGY STAR for more than 275 hotel properties across the country.
• In 2008, Best Western International and Wyndham Worldwide joined ENERGY STAR, each making a senior-level commitment to energy efficiency as a key component to their organization-wide green strategies.

For more information on ENERGY STAR for Hospitality, visit the ENERGY STAR website:  www.energystar.gov/hospitality or send an email to buildings@energystar.gov

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* Data provided by ENERGY STAR (a voluntary U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program)

** ENERGY STAR states the process of loading all information needed takes approximately 6 hours. Our experience shows that once you add the time spent gathering and preparing data and reviewing the accuracy of all information, it becomes a 10 hour task per property