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Benchmarking for State Agencies

The following criteria determine whether a facility must be benchmarked:

• It is a State-owned or leased building that is occupied by humans at least part of the time
• The State pays the utility bill, whether or not the facility is leased to or from other State Departments or non-State entities*

The Bottom Line:

All facilities that your department pays utility bills for

must be included in your portfolio

* The only exception is if the amount your Department pays for utilities is included in the total monthly charges paid to your building owner such that it is difficult to discern how your monthly fees are divided.

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Steps for benchmarking your facilities:

1. Facility information has been submitted and uploaded into Portfolio Manager. Each State department has their own Portfolio Manager account. If you do not know how to log into your account, please contact Amy Barr at 916-962-7001.

2. Data release forms should have been signed for each participating utility. (PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, SoCalGas & SMUD)

3. Monthly energy data from participating utilities (PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, SoCalGas & SMUD) should be in your account from January 2003 through your last billing cycle. If you find incomplete or incorrect energy data, please contact the appropriate utility representative.

4. Energy Data from Non-Participating Utilities will need to be entered BY YOU from January 2003 through the present.  If you do not have this information, send a data request to your account representatives for each non-participating utility asking for monthly data back to January 2003 - preferably in an Excel spreadsheet. (You don't want to type all those numbers in by hand!).

Please contact Doug Mahone, Karen Herter, or Amy Barr for more information