The US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 office, is offering free energy use benchmarking assistance to local governments and municipal water and sewer utilities this summer through the Energy Star program.

This summer, U.S. EPA Region 5 is offering municipal and county government facilities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin free one-on-one technical assistance to benchmark their facilities using ENERGY STAR’s Portfolio Manager.  Municipal and county governments, school districts and wastewater treatment authorities are all eligible.  Benchmarking in Portfolio Manager lets you compare the energy performance of your facility to others nationwide, adjusting for weather and other important facility and operational characteristics.  EPA Region 5 can set up your password protected Portfolio Manager account and enter your energy consumption and cost data.

To learn more about the one-on-one technical assistance in ENERGY STAR benchmarking that is available from U.S. EPA Region 5, please contact Elham Tallackson (abdishi-tallackson.elham@epa.gov) at 312-353-8242.

The link to the site is:

http://www.epa.gov/r5climatechange/energy-star-benchmarking.html

Elham A. Tallackson
Air and Radiation Division
U.S. EPA
77 West Jackson Blvd. (A-18J)
Chicago, IL 60604
abdishi-tallackson.elham@epa.gov
(T):  312-353-8242

Chris Hackbarth is the environmental policy advisor for the Michigan Municipal League.  Chris can be reached at 517-908-0303, or by email at chackbarth@mml.org.

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