Building Energy Management: Evaluating

EVALUATE

This stage is about comparing your actual energy use with benchmarks and targets, and about evaluating any interventions you made to try and reduce energy use. After evaluation you will want to consider whether targets should be adjusted. The Energy Star programme suggests the following four elements to evaluation:
• Get feedback — Solicit feedback and ideas on the plan from the energy team, implementation staff, and other departments.
• Gauge awareness — Assess changes in employee and organizational awareness of energy issues.
• Identify critical factors — Identify factors that contributed to surpassing or missing targets.
• Quantify side benefits — Identify and quantify, if possible, side benefits arising from energy management activities such as employee comfort, productivity improvement, impact on sales, reduced operation and maintenance expenses, or better public/community relations.

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