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Service & Product Providers

Service and Product Providers (SPPs) have always been an essential part of helping commercial buildings run more efficiently by assisting clients in benchmarking commercial buildings, improving performance, and earning recognition. ENERGY STAR provides SPPs with free tools and resources to help you bring value to your customers and more sales to your organization. Let ENERGY STAR be your market advantage for building more profitable business relationships.

What You Can Do

Expanding on the ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management, EPA has created an ENERGY STAR guide that empowers SPPs with tools and resources to:

  • Enhance your credibility and visibility
  • Build market demand for energy services and products
  • Satisfy that market demand by linking the ENERGY STAR network of SPPs with energy users

See how ENERGY STAR can help you at each step of your business relationships!


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Partner with ENERGY STAR

Partnership with ENERGY STAR provides you with access to free ENERGY STAR tools and resources to help you devise and implement energy-efficient strategies. It also lets prospective customers locate your company from the below featured lists when they need expert help with an energy efficiency project or assistance when applying for recognition through ENERGY STAR.

See the full list of SPP partners and use the chart below to decide which partnership category is most suited for your organization. View the complete partnership requirements PDF (70KB) and apply here.

Join the ENERGY STAR SPP Partnership
Service and Product Provider Type Partnership Requirements Overview Featured ENERGY STAR Partner Listing
SPPs – Existing commercial buildings: Companies assisting clients in benchmarking commercial buildings, improving performance, and earning recognition, using ENERGY STAR tools. Use Portfolio Manager to benchmark at least 10 buildings, or earn at least one ENERGY STAR certification for a client building in the last 12 months. Most Active Service & Product Providers Directory
Automated benchmarking providers: Companies offering ENERGY STAR energy performance scores as a part of their commercial energy information services. Most Active Automated Benchmarking Providers
Architecture firms: Firms that use Target Finder to design new buildings that will earn ENERGY STAR certification. Submit a commercial new construction project that achieves Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR. Architecture Firms & Design to Earn ENERGY STAR Projects
SPPs – Industrial plants: Companies providing a product or service that directly aids in improving energy efficiency of a customer's plant or operations. Submit a Teaming Profile outlining an energy efficiency project completed for an ENERGY STAR Industrial partner. Industrial Service and Product Providers
Associations with SPP membership: Associations whose memberships offer energy efficiency services or products for commercial, industrial, or institutional buildings. Encourage members to use ENERGY STAR tools and become ENERGY STAR partners. Service and Product Provider Associations

ENERGY STAR also maintains informational listings of companies that offer services that may assist in improving energy performance or achieving recognition through ENERGY STAR.

Get Recognized for Your Successes

Featured SPP Success Stories: Create a success story highlighting your work with a customer to improve their energy performance using ENERGY STAR tools. Contact spp@energystar.gov.

Certified Buildings & Profiles: Highlight your organization on this website through profiles showing how you applied tools and resources to help your clients earn ENERGY STAR certification for buildings.

ENERGY STAR Awards: Consider becoming one of the organizations honored annually by EPA for outstanding contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency.

10-Point Recognition Certificate: Gain recognition from EPA by improving the energy performance score of a customer building by 10 points or more. SPPs notifying ENERGY STAR of their success receive a certificate suitable for framing.