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Guidelines & Technical Modules > Key Message: Benchmarking

The energy benchmarking of a building is usually the comparison of the whole-building energy use of a building with a set of similar buildings e.g. comparing the electricity consumption of a non-cooled office with the average electricity consumption of a set of other non-cooled offices. It provides a useful starting point for individual energy audits and for targeting buildings for energy-saving measures in multiple-site audits.

A GB Partner should benchmark the electricity and fuel consumption of its building with a similar set of other buildings and present the benchmarking of it building in the request for becoming GB partner.

Useful links:

1. Target Energy Services is a UK-based energy management consultancy with an on-line benchmarking tool
www.targ.co.uk

2. Carbon trust with on-line benchmarking tool
www.carbontrust.co.uk

3. Civil Estate Benchmarking Guide
http://projects.bre.co.uk/gpg286

4. ODYSSEE, a project between ADEME, the EIE programme of the European Commission/DGTREN and energy efficiency agencies, or their representative
www.odyssee-indicators.org

5. The Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC), Energy Benchmarking and Best Practices
www.oee.nrcan.gc.ca/industrial/technical-info/benchmarking/index.cfm?attr=24

6. U.S. Green Building Council
www.usgbc.org

7. CALARCH, California Building Energy Reference Tool
http://poet.lbl.gov/cal-arch/index.html

8. Belgian benchmarking tool
http://www.e-bench.com/

9. EL-TERTIARY, Monitoring Electricity Consumption in the Tertiary Sector
www.eu.fhg.de/el-tertiary 

10. APEC ESIS, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Energy Standards Information System - Benchmarking energy performance
www.apec-esis.org/webnewpage.php

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