Energy Benchmarking

Benchmarking provides energy managers with a building energy performance assessment and valuable information on how to get an energy efficiency project started. New Jersey's Clean Energy Program now offers FREE Benchmarking for specific Commercial & Industrial sectors, including hospitals and healthcare, municipalities, industries, hospitality, multifamily, higher education, K-12 schools, retail and other commercial.

This rating system assesses building performance by tracking and scoring energy use in your facilities and comparing it to similar buildings. That can be a big help in locating opportunities for cost-justified energy efficiency upgrades. And, based on our findings, you may be invited to participate in the Building Performance with ENERGY STAR initiative and receive special recognition as an industry leader in energy efficiency.

Complete and submit a Building Data Collection Form that provides key information for the modeling process. Use either the convenient electronic form or download a PDF version, which can be completed offline and submitted by fax or mail.

Electronic Forms

Select your building type from the list below:
Not sure which sector to select? View descriptions
Commercial Supermarket Retail Office-Building Other	Industrial Automobile-Assembly Cement-Manufacturing Chemical-Pharmaceutical Corn-Milling Other Warehousing
Institutional K-12-Schools Municipalities House-of-Worship Office-Building Wastewater-Treatment-Plant Other	Higher-Education Dormitories Office-Building Other
Hospital Acute-Care Childrens-Hospital Office-Building Outpatient-Healthcare Other	Multifamily-Building Multifamily
Hospitality Hotels Restaurants Other

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Downloadable Forms

To complete the form offline, download a PDF version by selecting your building type from the list. You will also need to complete and submit a Utility Data Release Form.
Step One:
	Commercial Supermarket Retail Office-Building Other	Industrial Automobile-Assembly Cement-Manufacturing Chemical-Pharmaceutical Corn-Milling Other Warehousing
	Institutional K-12-Schools Municipalities House-of-Worship Office-Building Wastewater-Treatment-Plant Other	Higher-Education Dormitories Office-Building Other
	Hospital Acute-Care Childrens-Hospital Office-Building Outpatient-Healthcare Other	Multifamily-Building Multifamily
	Hospitality Hotels Restaurants Other
	Not sure which to select? View descriptions
Step Two:	Utility Data Release Form

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Sector Descriptions

Commercial
Non-residential facilities that are commercially owned and operated such as office buildings, data centers, supermarkets, and retail facilities.

Higher Education
Colleges, universities, and community colleges granting two year, four year or graduate level degrees, medical schools, business colleges, and law schools. Higher education building types include administrative offices, classrooms, dorms, athletic facilities (excluding pools) and laboratories.

Hospitality
Lodging facilities such as hotels, motels, inns, extended stay locations, and full service restaurants. Cafeterias and fast food operations are not eligible

Hospitals
Free-standing acute care and children's hospitals, and free-standing medical office buildings, including 24-hour, walk-in clinics.

To qualify, the acute care hospital, children's hospital, and medical buildings must occupy at least 50% of the total healthcare property. Acute care and children's hospitals are facilities that typically provide a variety of services within the same building or among multiple buildings on a campus, including emergency medical care, physician's office services, diagnostic care, ambulatory care, and surgical care.

Institutional
Public, private, and non-profit entities including local government buildings, K-12 schools, houses of worship and facilities devoted to providing social services.

Multifamily Building
Residential buildings with 4-6 floors above ground that are equipped with a central heating/cooling system and any building with 7 or more floors (regardless of heating/cooling system type). Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis for buildings with less than 4 floors.

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