Energy usage pie charts can be a good start for determining areas of your lodging business in which to start looking for energy savings. Typically, the larger the piece of the pie the more areas of potential in finding energy savings.

The process for getting control of your energy costs begins with finding low cost/ no cost opportunities (often involve change in operation practices) with the end goal of having a "Energy Efficient Replace on Fail" plan in place. Following are a number of resources Focus on Energy is providing to you to give you information and tools for you to be able to continue this process regardless of your starting point.

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Energy Savings Information and Tools
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How Focus on Energy Can Help You
Focus on Energy is designed to assist lodging businesses in controlling their energy costs. Energy costs account for a growing percentage of operating costs. Therefore, energy management in the lodging industry is both a challenge and an opportunity. The Focus on Energy program can help meet this challenge by assisting in the identification and implementation of energy efficiency improvement opportunities.
Focus on Energy can assist your facility by:

• Providing guidance and technical information for improving your energy efficiency.
• Assisting in the estimation of a project's energy and cost savings.
• Providing financial assistance for project implementation and feasibility studies.
• Helping develop a Practical Energy Management Program.