As 2021 dawns, many office buildings sit idle while workers telecommute from home. Yet buildings still account for around 40% of our nation's energy use and consume 75% of our nation’s electricity.
The Facility Energy Decision System (FEDS) is an easy-to-use software tool that performs energy efficiency assessments by analyzing existing building energy use and identifying cost-effective savings opportunities. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has developed the software tool to facilitate robust energy auditing and analyses to support energy efficiency, resilience planning, and project development. FEDS 8.0 supports a wide variety of structure types plus large multi-building campuses and installations.