Resources Library

Governor's Green Building Order

• California's state-owned green building directory.
  
• Governor's Executive Order S-20-04
• Green Building Action Plan
• Green Action Team
  
• Governor's Environment & Energy Initiatives

Green Buildings

• Baselining & Benchmarking Buildings
• Best Practices Manual: Better Building Management for a Better Tomorrow
• Commissioning & Retro-commissioning Buildings
• Commissioning Toolkit for Small Buildings
• Costs & Financial Benefits of Green Buildings: A Report to California's Sustainable Building Task Force (Oct. 2003)
• Existing Buildings TOOLKIT 
• Leasing 
• LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Certified State Facilities
• LEED Rating System
• LEED in Existing Buildings
• LEED in New Construction
• Real Estate Leadership Council
• Sustainable Schools

Energy Efficiency Projects at State Facilities

Energy Efficiency Program Elements:

• Overview & Contacts 
• Building Executive Order and Green Building Action Plan
• Benchmarking Fact Sheet
• Benchmarkable Buildings
• Retro-commissioning (RCx) Fact Sheet

• California Commissioning Guide: Existing Buildings

• California Commissioning Guide: New Buildings

Energy Project Delivery and Financing:

• Dept. of Finance Budget Letter 06-27
• Life Cycle Cost Assessment (LCCA) Fact Sheet
• LCCA Tool
• State of California & Investor-owned Utilities Program Fact Sheet
• GS $Mart Management Memo 06-14
• Road Map for Project With Energy Service Company (ESCO)
• Road Map for Project Without ESCO
  

Energy Services Companies (ESCOs)

Energy Programs

• Co-generation
• Fuel Cells
• Incentives from Utility Companies
• Natural Gas Program
• Solar Photovoltaics

Energy Star Challenge

• California Supports the Energy Star Challenge

Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)

• EPP Best Practices Manual
• Paper Calculator

News & Events

• Press releases
• Upcoming events/meetings 

Information for: 

• Agencies
• Commercial Real Estate
• Purchasing Officials 
• Schools 

Other Useful Links

• California Energy Commission
• California Integrated Waste Management Board
• California Public Utilities Commission
• Collaborative for High Performance Schools
• Energy Star Portfolio Manager
• Flex Your Power
• Green Building Engineers
• Rebates & Incentives from Utilities
• U. S. Green Building Council