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EPA's Portfolio Manager is a free web-based tool used to track and report on building energy use. Benchmarking in Portfolio Manager identifies opportunities for energy savings in buildings occupied by state government, colleges, municipalities and schools. The DES Energy Program provides resources and assistance to help our client's benchmark building energy use in the following ways:
Data entries for March 2022-March 2024 are due in ESPM by July 31, 2024.
In your report to DES:
To address energy efficiency in state owned or leased buildings, Washington law requires state agencies, universities, and colleges with buildings 10,000 square feet and larger to create an energy performance benchmark of their buildings and report their findings to DES. DES then compiles that data and sends an energy benchmarking report every two years to the Legislature.
The law requires utilities to use the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star Portfolio Manager (ESPM) program to track energy consumption data, with instructions for data uploads based on utility size.
DES Energy Program
Phone 360-701-8151
Email sharon.nyberg@des.wa.gov
Department of Ecology
Phone 360-407-6860
Email gasa461@ecy.wa.go