Commercial Practical Energy Management
Commercial Practical Energy Management© (CPEM©) is a program that will help you quickly and easily manage your organization's energy costs. This program and its steps were created to help commercial businesses, schools, and government facilities identify ways to reduce energy use and minimize rising energy costs. If you operate a manufacturing business, then the industrial version of PEM© is for you.
CPEM will help you identify current energy use, set energy reduction goals, and track energy saving projects. It provides calculation tools to benchmark energy use per units of production and estimate equipment energy use. To learn more work through PEM's Six Step Process.
CPEM's benefits, steps, and resources are summarized in this section of the Focus on Energy Website for easy reference. If you want to learn more, take a CPEM training class from Focus on Energy. Click here to access information about all of our training programs as well as the training calendar.
Benefits
Commercial Practical Energy Management (CPEM) offers your business two key benefits. First, by implementing CPEM, you will reduce monthly energy costs. Second, you and your staff will save time with the practical energy management approach. Energy efficiency is a good investment; many energy efficiency projects provide a high return on investment (as much as 30 percent) and are low risk to implement. You can save, on average, from 10 to 15 percent of your annual energy cost savings within three years by implementing energy efficiency measures.General Resources
You can learn about energy efficient equipment for your business or organization from many different resources. Focus on Energy offers information, tools, and training for a wide variety of topics. Many utility Web sites contain excellent information as well as tools. If your utility's site does not have the information you need, visit additional ones. Trade allies and contractors can also be of great assistance. Finally, the Web sites of government and non-profit organizations are excellent resources.Several links are provided below to help you get started.
ENERGY STAR® Web site from U.S. Department of Energy
This site is an excellent resource for information about energy efficient equipment. It also identifies new products that carry the ENERGY STAR label.
U.S. DOE EERE Building Technologies Program
This site offers tools, information, and resources for builders, building owners, and managers. It categorizes information by business type--such as office, retail, hospitals, and schools.
U.S. DOE Federal Energy Management Program: Technologies
This site offers information by technology as well as provides information about operations and maintenance bast practices.
Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE)
This non-profit organization promotes energy-efficient products and services for residential, commercial, and industrial customers.