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Term	Term Definition	Options	Unit of Measure
Energy Generation and Storage Component	Component of energy storing, generating, or converting equipment.	View	None
Energy generation plant	A premises with a facility designed to produce electric energy from another form of energy such as fossil fuel, geothermal, and solar.	View	None
Energy Generation Technology	Technology utilized on the premises to generate non-purchased energy, including renewable energy that is passively collected. This includes energy collected from the environment such as air, water, or ground-source heat pump systems. Technology equipment may exist as facade systems and roofing systems. Technology equipment may also exist on a premises off of a building envelope including on the ground, awnings, or carports as well as underground.	View	None
Energy information system functionality	EIS analytics focus on meter-level monitoring, analysis, and charting (hourly or more frequent consumption data, at the whole building or submeter level). Advanced EIS analytics incorporate automated opportunity analysis that typically includes predictive energy models that identify energy use anomalies and measure project savings.	View	None
Energy information system key performance indicator tracking	Track KPIs for energy related metrics, such as equipment, system, or building level energy use intensity, greenhouse gas emissions.	View	None
Energy management and controls system	EMCS	View	None
Energy management and information systems	Combined hardware and software products that comprise a broad range of analytics functionality and services to manage commercial building energy use. Specific EMIS capabilities are listed under the EMIS Feature constrained list.	View	None
Energy management system	Transfer through an intermediate tool such as an Energy Management System (EMS)	View	None
Energy Metered Premises	Designation of what areas within the premises are covered by energy meters.	View	None
Energy modeler	Contact information for the energy modeler.	View	None
Energy performance analysis	Analyze interval energy data and provide actionable information. Common analysis includes time series load profiling, heat map visualization, benchmarking, baseline energy consumption modeling, and energy anomaly detection.	View	None
Energy power station		View	None
Energy recovery	The net total energy (sensible plus latent, also called enthalpy) recovered by the supply airstream adjusted by electric consumption, case heat loss or heat gain, air leakage and air flow mass imbalance between the two airstreams, as a percent of the potential total energy that could be recovered plus associated fan energy.	View	None
Energy recovery ventilator		View	None
Energy reporting and data export	Provide a default or customized energy report. Allow users to export energy data.	View	None
Energy saver	Energy saver mode is a setting that consumes less energy than it does in idle mode.	View	None
Energy savings certificates	An Energy Savings Certificate (ESC), also known as an Energy Efficiency Credit (EEC), white certificate or white tag, is an instrument issued by an authorized body guaranteeing that a specified amount of energy savings has been achieved. Each certificate is a unique and traceable commodity carrying a property right over a certain amount of additional energy savings and guaranteeing that the benefit of these savings has not been accounted for elsewhere.	View	None
Energy services agreement	An Energy Services Agreement (ESA) is a financial vehicle for funding energy efficiency where services are provided and/or equipment is installed and owned and operated by a vendor who then sells the saved power to the customer.	View	None
Energy Software Tool	A software program that is used in some fashion to calculate the energy consumption of a building	View	None
Energy Software Tool Version	The release version of the software tool used to calculate energy performance of a building.	View	None
ENERGY STAR	Fenestration rating that meets the ENERGY STAR rating criteria	View	None
ENERGY STAR	A rating system for equipment sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).	View	None
ENERGY STAR	The US federal government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information for consumers and businesses	View	None
ENERGY STAR	Climate zone map published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the ENERGY STAR programs.	View	None
ENERGY STAR Certified Homes	EPA ENERGY STAR Certified Homes is a set of optional construction practices and technologies (above minimum code requirements) that builders can follow to upgrade a new homeÕs energy efficiency beyond minimum code requirements. Guidelines are outlined in the ÒNational Performance PathÓ or the ÒNational Prescriptive Path.Ó This whole-house label differs from the ENERGY STAR products label. To achieve the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes label, a homeÕs energy efficiency must be verified by a third-party organization.	View	None

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