ENERGY Star Portfolio Manager Training  

Have you been looking for the first step in reducing your building’s energy consumption? Have you recently partnered with GBA to hit energy reduction targets and make your building more resilient? Join us for a step-by-step onboarding into ENERGY Star Portfolio Manager (ESPM) — the tool that supports all of GBA’s services and starts our partners on their building improvement journey. 

ESPM is a free federal tool that enables users to track and visualize the carbon emissions, energy use, and water use of their buildings. ESPM is used by many organizations to understand and benchmark the performance of their building portfolio: approximately 25% of all US commercial building space is being tracked in ESPM. Locally, the Pittsburgh benchmarking ordinance, which is required for buildings 50,000 square feet and larger, requires submittal of building utility data through ESPM.  

The 2030 Districts and Resilient Communities programs work with partners to review utility data and enter that data into ESPM. This enables the team to provide personalized performance reports for each building, benchmarking each building against national and local datasets to analyze building performance. This utility data is also analyzed in our annual progress reports, which details how each district/resilient community is progressing toward their established utility cost savings, energy and water use, and emissions goals. 

During this training, GBA Staff will provide detailed instructions and guidance on: 

• Reading utility bills 

• Creating and setting up a building in Energy Star Portfolio Manager 

• Sharing your building data with GBA 

• Entering utility bill information into Energy Star Portfolio Manager 

Meet our Speaker

Tobias Chan, Performance and Outreach Coordinator, Green Building Alliance  

LEED Green Associate  

An environmental engineering graduate of Geneva College, Tobias joined GBA in 2021 as an intern while completing his Master of Sustainability degree at Chatham University. Tobias then transitioned to a full-time role as GBA’s Performance and Outreach Coordinator. In this role, he supports the growth of 2030 Districts and Resilient Communities and serves as the liaison to property partners. 

For more information, to request a session, or if you are wondering if this training is right for you, please contact info@gba.org.