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Energy Trust of Oregon's Commercial SEM Guide
Improving energy efficiency at your business is one of the easiest ways to reduce operating costs. You can invest more in your business and employees, plus reduce your environmental impact and operate more sustainably. Energy efficiency goes beyond investments in upgrades at your facilities. You can gain even more savings by engaging your staff in energy-saving practices. Energy Trust of Oregon is here to help.
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How to Write an Energy Policy
An energy policy is a formal plan that helps your organization pursue a high-performance energy portfolio. This course walks through the process of creating an energy policy and provides examples of proven policies implemented by successful organizations. -
How to Translate Data into Performance
This course explains how to create a baseline using simple averaging, single and multi-variable regression. It provides examples, including how to use spreadsheets to develop your organization’s baseline for use in monitoring and tracking performance and data visualization techniques.
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How to Set and Achieve Energy Goals
This course explains how clear goals can help you work together toward a vision to accomplish greater savings. It presents a step-by-step method to set and achieve energy goals, targets, projects and action plans. -
How to Choose Performance Indicators
During this course you will learn how to set goals and measure results, including a step-by-step process for setting and documenting meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for tracking performance. You’ll learn about the energy-intensity KPI and the benefits of using it to strengthen your energy management program. -
How to Monitor, Target and Report Performance
The importance of a monitoring, targeting, and reporting system to optimize and maintain best possible energy performance is the focus of this course. It includes examples of effective commercial and industrial monitoring techniques. -
How to Create Energy Awareness and Support
During this course you’ll learn how to develop strategies for creating energy awareness and support. The course identifies examples of awareness strategies for new and existing staff—including leadership—within your organization, and creating awareness outside of your business. Also included are tools and resources, including an energy-awareness plan questionnaire, energy-awareness collateral and newsletter templates and more.
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