EPA Energy Star has been working hard to support hospitals for many years Now it’s your opportunity to return the favor.
- Learn the importance of EPA’s energy performance rating system to hospitals
- Help EPA improve and expand the rating system to new healthcare spaces
More than 3,000 hospitals have used EPA’s Portfolio Manager to rate energy performance, manage energy and water consumption, and track carbon emissions, making it the most widely used performance tool of its kind in the industry. The algorithm used to create the acute care hospital ratings is based on hospital energy data that was collected in 1997.
While this was the largest publicly available dataset on hospital energy use at the time, EPA is becoming concerned that it may be out of date.
In order to protect the credibility of the ENERGY STAR brand, EPA may consider discontinuing the hospital rating if new data cannot be collected.
EPA began collaborating with ASHE on a new expanded energy survey to avoid this outcome. Hear from EPA how you can participate in the ASHE energy survey and help maintain and improve the only publicly available, free-of-charge, national energy performance rating system for hospitals.
Users of Portfolio Manager need to fill out the survey — even if they are already tracking their energy use — because the survey helps assess possible new energy drivers like the presence of diagnostic medical equipment, patient census, and medical service compositions.
New ENERGY STAR scores will be more accurate, provide greater value for economic decision-making, and better reflect the latest trends in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. But before that can happen, ASHE needs your data! All surveys shared by ASHE to the EPA will be anonymous.