Guide: Understanding the Energy Star Certification Report

The redesigned Energy Star Status Report gives users a visual breakdown of Certification Status across a portfolio, or by building.

This report puts valuable information at your fingertips including:

1. Current Energy Star Scores across the portfolio in a visual graph

2. Detailed information on scores below 75

3. The ability to go straight from the report to a building to learn more about their utility usage, building setup and historical values related to Energy Star.

 

Learn how to view the report.

Learn how to filter the report. 

Learn how to understand the report.

Learn how to download the report.

 

To View the Energy Star Certification Status Report: 

STEP 1: 

Login to Backpack, and select the 'REPORTS' tab on the left-hand menu.

STEP 2:

Select 'ENERGY STAR CERTIFICATION STATUS' to open the Status Report. 

The report will populate for your portfolio or building.

To Filter the Report: 

Report filters are listed at the top of the report. There are standard, and advanced filters. 

Standard filters allow users to filter on the following: 

• Property Type
• Fund (if applicable) 
• Market (if applicable) 
• Asset Manager

To apply a standard filter, select the appropriate dropdown, and check/uncheck the boxes you wish. Below is an example of toggling on/off the Property Type filter. 

Note: Filter selections can be individually selected/removed, or by using the 'CLEAR ALL' button.

Advanced filters allow for users to filter out individual or groups of buildings from the report.

To apply an advanced filter, select the 'ADVANCED FILTER' button. A dropdown menu of buildings in the portfolio will show, and users can check/uncheck buildings one by one, or using the 'SELECT ALL', 'CLEAR ALL' buttons.

Understanding Report Details: 

Property Type Charts:

The first section within the report is a visual representation of your portfolio and the estimated Energy Star score for each building in real-time. The properties are broken down by Energy Star score in both a circle chart and graph. To view the property count of a specific section, hover over the respective type.

The following definitions are related to the right-side bar graph and status.

Certifiable Score - The building has an energy star score that is high enough to meet the certification requirement & may be eligible to be certified (75 or over).

Ineligible Score - The building has an energy star score that is lower than the minimum required to get certified (under 75).

Unavailable Score - There is no Energy Star account connected to the property Backpack or the property does not have enough information in the Backpack to create a score.

Energy Star Score Rollup:

The Energy Star score rollup section goes a level deeper into the energy star information available for the portfolio displaying the number of current certified buildings as well as other useful metrics.

Buildings with Energy Star - the total number of buildings that have an energy star portfolio manager account linked to Backpack.

Total Certified Buildings - the total number of buildings that are currently Energy Star certified.

Median Energy Star Score - The middle value energy star score across all the buildings in the portfolio.

Building Breakdown Section: 

Below the Energy Star score rollup section you can view detailed information about each building.  This is the data behind the metrics at the top of the report. Data here can be viewed in multiple ways and can be downloaded to a CSV.

Click on the Building name (in green) to go to directly to the Backpack. This is helpful to see what data is available and what might need updates.

Information can be displayed in a “Card” or “Table” view.  To view the table with a 'card' view, select the CARD option. 

To switch to a table view, select the TABLE option. 

Downloading the Report

There are two options to download the report:

1. Select the DOWNLOAD REPORT button in the top right hand corner of the report page to download a PDF of the report data.
2. Click the download ICON to the right of the CARD/TABLE options to download a CSV of the report data.