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Building Asset ScoreRates efficiency of commercial buildings based on its features

ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager

Measures & tracks actual energy consumption and emissions

Tools

Building Asset Score ReportShows how efficient a building is

built (1-10 scale) and recommends cost-effective upgrades

ENERGY STAR ScoreShows how efficiently a building

is performing compared to similar buildings (1-100 scale)

Reports

The U.S. Department of Energy’sDATA SOLUTIONS FOR CITIES

Prioritize Upgrades

Energy BillsMonthly usage data

Building Features e.g., size, address, HVAC

equipment, wall type

Data Fields

SEED PlatformCombines and matches data sets to enable data

cleansing, organization, and analysisDatabase

Prioritize Upgrades for Public Building

PortfoliosCollect, manage, and analyze your building data to more strategically identify cost-effective energy efficiency improvement opportunities across your building portfolio.

Next Steps to Consider

Prioritize buildings for further analysis, evaluation of incentive programs, and share data with the Building Performance Database for benchmarking and peer comparisons.

See both asset and performance data on buildings in your portfolio

Identify highest potential investment opportunities

Compile list of cost-effective improvements to consider for each building

Help prioritize buildings on which to perform more in-depth audits

Contact to Learn More: Harry.Bergmann@ee.doe.gov | Visit Our Website: https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/analysis-tools

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Katie BergfeldDepartment of Energy & Environment

Government of the District of Columbia

August 23, 2018

@DOEE_DC

WASHINGTON, DC CLIMATE AND ENERGY GOALS

• SUSTAINABLE DC: In just one generation—20 years—the District of Columbia will be the healthiest, greenest, and most livable city in the United States.

• CARBON NEUTRALITY: By 2050, the District will be a carbon neutral and climate-resilient city

@DOEE_DC

DC BENCHMARKING LAW•Green Building Act of 2006 & Clean and Affordable Energy Act of 2008.DC Official Code 6-1451.02, .03(c). Also 20 DCMR 3513.

• Privately-owned > 50,000 square feet• DC-owned > 10,000 square feet• Adopted in 2008, implemented 2013• Benchmarking data disclosed beginning in 2nd year

@DOEE_DC

DATA CLEANSING - Excel

• Check every report for completeness:• Site EUI ≠ Not Available or 0• Weather-normalized Source EUI ≠ Not Available or 0• Electricity Usage ≠ Not Available or 0• Total Water Usage ≠ Not Available or 0• Metered areas = Whole Building

@DOEE_DC

DATA CLEANSING - Excel

• Check every report for accuracy:• Multifamily ENERGY STAR score >95 or total electricity

usage < 15% total energy usage• Scores developed and used to grade reports

@DOEE_DC

DATA CLEANSING - SEED

Standard Energy Efficiency Database – SEED• Project of U.S. DOE• DC currently has CY2014-2017 data in SEED

@DOEE_DC

DATA CLEANSING - SEED

@DOEE_DC

GREEN BUILDING REPORT

4.5% decrease from 2013-2016

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Weather-normalized Site EUI for Office Buildings (2013-2016)

5.7% decrease from 2013-2016

Combine all data 2013-2016: throw out anything with no WN Site EUI. Then throw out any individual buildings that have more than 40% WN Site EUI change in any given year.

Provide overall public and private building analysis, as well as sector specific.

Launched September 2017: www.energybenchmarkingdc.org

@DOEE_DC

CLEAN ENERGY DC PLAN57 ACTIONS ACROSS 4 AREAS

EQUITY

BUILDINGS NEW CONSTRUCTION EXISTING BUILDINGSCROSS-CUTTING BUILDING ACTIONS

ENERGY SUPPLY SYSTEM CLEAN & RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLYELECTRICITY SYSTEM MODERNIZATION

TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIC VEHICLE READINESS & ADOPTION MODE SHIFT

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GHG emissions after policies

Baseline GHG Emissions

Targeted GHG Emissions

ESTIMATED GHG SAVINGS BY SECTOR

Electricity Savings

Gas Savings

Green Jobs

Leveraged Funds

Investing in the Low Income Community

Renewable Energy

@DOEE_DC

PUTTING DATA TO WORK WITH SEU

@DOEE_DC

PUTTING DATA TO WORK WITH SEU

@DOEE_DC

C40/LBNL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

@DOEE_DC

C40/LBNL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCESimple payback (years)

Building Type 25th percentile Median 75th percentile

Education 1.38 2.99 4.89

Multi-family 1.83 3.01 6.88

Office 1.44 2.59 4.83

Other 0.51 1.54 3.17

Thank You!

Katie Bergfeld, Energy Program Specialist

Website: http://doee.dc.gov Email: katie.bergfeld@dc.gov

Phone: (202) 535-1739

Erik CathcartDirector, Marketing, Strategy & Product

DevelopmentEarth Advantage - Portland, Oregon

Tools for Managing Commercial& Residential Data with the SEED® platform

Residential Green Certifications

Professional Training Policy ConsultationResearchProduct Development

Earth Advantage Areas of Focus

Integration of commercial energy benchmarking data with building permit data, leveraging custom built scripts and the US Department of Energy’s Standard Energy Efficiency Data Platform™ (SEED

platform)

Portland’s Cities-LEAP project

EarthAdvantage

SEEDBEASutilities

scripts

SEEDClientPY-BES

BuildingData

Building data is eitherloaded into SEED or it canbe cleaned using GreenBuilding Registry proprietyalgorithms

‣ SEED client allows data to be pulled from the SEED API

‣ Utilities and scripts combine to clean data and match to prepare for migration. They make it easier and faster for developers to connect to pull data from SEED

‣ PY-BES tool is an open source code base that allows the exporting to and extracting from BEAS

LEAP Development Dataflow Overview

Building EnergyAsset Score

EarthAdvantage

Workflow Option 1

BEAS

US City Script

Open Source Scriptsdeployable from local

city IT departments usingsimple a terminal app

City enters building datainto Building Energy Asset

Score UI

SEEDClient

SEEDInstance

Script leveragesSEED client built

by EA to propagatedata points to the

city’s SEED database

City data is viewable usingtheir SEED instance built

off their template

EA Development

Open Source Scriptslive in GitHub repository

with instructions

+

EarthAdvantage

EarthAdvantage

Workflow Option 2

SEEDInstance

City moves datainto their SEED instance

BEAS Preview API

BEAS

Script to run preview scoredownload from BEAS

SEED client built by EA to propagate data points to thecity’s SEED database

EA Development

scriptScript to loadSEED properties

into API

script

SEEDClient

City can now viewasset scores aspart of their SEED instance

EA Development

Building EnergyAsset Score processesthe upload

US City

EarthAdvantage

Providing reliable green home data to the real estate market in real-time

Easy / Secure / Verified

One solution to provide access to green and energy efficiency home data, at the time of listing, to real estate agents, appraisers, and lenders.

EarthAdvantage

RESNETHERS

DOEHES

GreenCertifications

Solar PVData

API

CSVManual

CSVManual(future)

Manual or(API future)

Green Building Registry

Private SaaS platformAPI/Manual/Bulk uploadProgram-based

Custom Scorecards

Program.greenbuildingregistry.com(public access website)

Data Sources & Flow

Optional : custom programscorecards (match EMPRESS)

A website for anyone to access public data about a home’s green features.

An easy to use platform for energy assessorsto create records and scorecards for homes

Analytics and management dashboard for municipal and state energy efficiency programs

Key AttributesAn SaaS Solution

Real-time Energy Assessments

Connects to Verified Data Sources

API for MLS Connectivity

DOE SEED Platform® Storage

Generates Custom Scorecards

Green Certification & Solar Data

Admin Dashboard & Assessor Management

RESO Data Dictionary Compliant

DOE Home Energy Score & RESNET HERS® Index data

Present & Future Locations

Current:City of Portland, OregonState of Missouri

Proposed Expansion:State of OregonState of ArkansasGreater Salt Lake City PilotSeattle, WA PilotDenver/Fort Collins PilotCity of Boise PilotCity of San Diego Pilot

EarthAdvantage

Thank You!

Erik Cathcartecathcart@earthadvantage.org

earthadvantage.org

Questions?

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About OPEN

• Our mission is to create technology solutions that help our clients achieve their energy efficiency and GHG reduction targets

• We’re a software company based in Vancouver, British Columbia

• Started in 2008 as a side project by industry experts and now a team of 8 working on a number of different projects throughout NA

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Our journey to SEED

• Energy benchmarking heating up in Canada

• Province of BC commissioned study to find the best tools available to support the benchmarking administrators’ workflow

• Contacted DOE and NREL to learn about their work with SEED and opportunities for collaboration

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Our work so far

The ‘SEED stack’ – SEED DB + CRM + Data vis

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CRM

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Data vis.

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Benefits to the user organization

1. Saved time

2. Lower administration costs

3. Improved accuracy

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Next steps

• Make these tools available to organizations who could benefit from them

• Capturing further requirements to continue building out functionality

• Automated year over year quality checks

• Develop machine learning capabilities to make suggestions on how to achieve the greatest energy and GHG reductions at the lowest cost

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Thank you. Contact neil@opengb.com with questions, or to schedule a demo

www.opengb.com Contact: neil@opengb.com c) 778.994-9659

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