Commercial Building Energy Asset Score System: Program Overview and Technical Protocol (Version 1.0)

Technical Report · Sat Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1060650· OSTI ID:1060650

Wang, Na ^[1]; Gorrissen, Willy J. ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is developing a national voluntary energy asset score system that includes an energy asset score tool to help building owners evaluate their buildings with respect to the score system. The goal of the energy asset score system is to facilitate cost-effective investment in energy efficiency improvements of commercial buildings. The system will allow building owners and managers to compare their building infrastructure against peers and track building upgrade progress over time. The system can also help other building stakeholders (e.g., building operators, tenants, financiers, and appraisers) understand the relative efficiency of different buildings in a way that is independent from their operations and occupancy. This report outlines the technical protocol used to generate the energy asset score, explains the scoring methodology, and provides additional details regarding the energy asset score tool. This report also describes alternative methods that were considered prior to developing the current approach. Finally, this report describes a few features of the program where alternative approaches are still under evaluation.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1060650
• Report Number(s): PNNL--22045; BT0201000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

building energy use
commercial buildings
energy asset score
energy simulation