SEM 101 Kick-Start Guide
A user-friendly visual guide to their SEM journey. Tailored to first-year participants, this guide focuses on key activities, critical milestones and support they may need along the way.
Program Implementation Tools
Collection Prepared by Northwest Utilities
The community of SEM programs and practitioners in North America have developed and generously shared a large number and wide variety of tools to support effective adoption of SEM by Commercial and Industrial energy users.
The tools, templates and other resources included in this collection will be most useful for businesses/organizations who are self-guiding their own internal SEM efforts, or for Program Implementers who are building out or seeking to augment their customer-facing SEM curriculum, materials and coaching strategies.
Commercial Energy Talk Cards
The BetterBricks Commercial Energy Talk Cards provide key learning points and discussion topics on energy efficiency to engage facility teams.
Industrial Energy Talk Cards
The BetterBricks Industrial Energy Talk Cards make it easier than ever to stimulate energy efficiency conversation and learning among facility staff.
SEM Open-Source Training Library
This collection of training information can be sorted by category, experience level, and whether CEUs are offered. This new tool is intended to be a living document that can be updated by the SEM community on an ongoing basis.
The Energy Management Assessment (EMA) Tool
The Energy Management Assessment (EMA) Tool provides a strategic and confidential analysis of an organization’s current energy management business practices.
The Energy Management Assessment (EMA) Tool Question Set
A comprehensive list of all the assessment questions a user may encounter when completing an assessment within the Energy Management Assessment (EMA) Tool.
Free Human-Centric EMA Tool from Coefficient Consulting
The tool incorporates data visualization to present information in real-time through engaging graphics. This not only provides insight into an organization’s energy management practices, but it also offers a snapshot of energy management beliefs among colleagues.
Smart Buildings Center Tool Lending Library
The Smart Buildings Center hosts a lending “library” of diagnostic tools for short term data collection on energy using equipment and systems in commercial and institutional buildings.
Opportunity Register
Use the Energy Opportunity Register to identify & track all energy projects. Track the details of important SEM practices, prioritize energy projects and determine what actions to take.
Best Practices for Running Effective, Virtual Meetings
Regularly scheduled Energy Team meetings are a critical component of ensuring the longevity and effectiveness of your SEM program. Turning to virtual solutions is more important than ever in maintaining effective and efficient meetings.
Energy Treasure Hunt Guide
An Energy Treasure Hunt is a two- to three-day event that engages employees in identifying low-cost energy savings opportunities from behavioral, operational, and maintenance actions.
Compressed Air Employee Engagement Toolkit
This campaign toolkit from BC Hydro motivates employees to stop compressed air leaks by helping you organize and run an engaging campaign to eliminate compressed air-misuse.
Member Resources: Collaborative Work Products continued
Additional Collaborative Work Product resources, unlocked for Members of the SEM Collaborative.
Tools and Methods for Addressing Autocorrelation in Energy Modeling
The ETSP team compiled this paper for the purposes of outlining the implications of autocorrelation in the context of SEM measurement and verification, and providing examples of how program implementers have successfully identified and treated the presence of autocorrelation in regression-based energy models.
Engaging Executive Sponsors
The ETSP working group compiled this paper for the purposes of outlining the implications of multicollinearity in the context of SEM measurement and verification, and providing examples of how program implementers have successfully identified and treated the presence of multicollinearity among a set of predictor variables.