Rating the Energy Performance of Your School

  1. Find the plot for your school type.

  2. Locate your school's annual total energy use intensity on the x-axis.
    (calculated using Total Energy Use Worksheet found under "Benchmark Your Building")

  3. Move up vertically to the plot and then left to the y-axis to determine your
    rating (the percentage of schools in your state that are less efficient than yours).
    The higher your rating the better your school.
The lower your percentage rating, the higher your building's potential for energy use and cost reductions. If your building ranks below 30%, there is often large energy cost savings available through improved energy management or building/system upgrades. Substantial opportunities are also often achievable for buildings rating between 30 and 50%. Recognize that a low rating does not always guarantee high savings potential. If your building has significantly longer operating hours, higher occupant density (people/sq. ft.), or lots of computers in comparison to its peers, it may appear inefficient (low rating). In most buildings, however, these types of situations are not significant enough to make a dramatic difference in the percentile rating for an individual building.

Using your energy use rating, you can estimate your energy use and cost reduction potentials from the link: