Collection Prepared by Northwest Utilities
Whether you’re onboarding new staff or launching a new program, this new collection of tools and training resources will help team members quickly grasp the basics of SEM.
SEM 101 introduces SEM with curated resources covering the following foundational topics:
Strategic Energy Management (SEM) provides organizations with a comprehensive approach to energy management that will achieve sustainable energy and cost savings over the long-term. This animated video effectively demonstrates SEM basics.
Exclusively developed for the SEMHub community, this new tool offers participants 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.
This 7 minute video outlines the benefits of establishing an energy program and features energy directors from General Motors, CalPortland, Eastman Chemical, Colgate-Palmolive, and Hanesbrands.
The Northwest has been at the forefront of strategic energy management for more than 15 years. Through collaboration and active practice, utilities and other energy efficiency program administrators, implementers, evaluators, researchers, regulators and industrial and commercial businesses have helped to standardize and streamline SEM best practices.
The Energy Management Assessment (EMA) Tool provides a strategic and confidential analysis of an organization’s current energy management business practices.
The US EPA’s ENERGY STAR® Guidelines for Energy Management provide a proven strategy for creating an energy management program focused on continuous improvement of energy performance.
Understand the benefits of forming an energy team, including diversified knowledge and building enthusiasm. This course will help energy managers learn who should be on the team, their roles, common energy team tasks and resources necessary to be successful.
The purpose of this report produced by the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) is to provide energy efficiency program planners, evaluators, and regulators with information on the issues related to evaluation of savings and cost-effectiveness.
Members unlock access to new publications, roundtable meetings, working groups, and receive monthly updates from the field.
