Manage Your Energy Program

Assess your current performance

Understanding current and past energy use is how many organizations identify opportunities to improve energy performance and gain financial benefits.

These are some major steps in assessing your current performance:

• Assess the current performance of your energy management program
  • Use the ENERGY STAR Assess your Energy Management Program Tool

  • Use the ENERGY STAR Assess your Facility Energy Program Tool

• Identifying metrics—Choosing what to measure
  • CEC Energy Accounting Handbook (PDF 197 KB)

  • Department of Energy Introduction to Monitoring and tracking your progress

• Gather and track data

  • Learn from ENERGY STAR about gathering and tracking data

• Establish baselines

  • Learn from ENERGY STAR about establishing baselines

• Benchmark

  • Learn from ENERGY STAR about benchmarking

• Analyze Data

  • Learn from ENERGY STAR about analyzing data

• Technical assessments and audits
  • Learn from ENERGY STAR about technical assessments and audits
  • Texas Industries of the Future: A Step-by-Step Assessment Guide and Calculator for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturer