EPEAT is intentionally designed to accommodate small business participation. The system is designed with sliding scale fees, and provides a variety of resources – listed below – to assist small business to register products, promote EPEAT registered products, or use EPEAT to make environmentally preferable purchasing decisions.

EPEAT 101 for Small Business Slideshow

Updated June 2010 from a presentation by Holly Elwood of US EPA at the Department of the Interior’s Small Business Conference - Washington DC, July 9th, 2009

Download the PDF version here

Small to Midsized Manufacturers

Product Assessment Tool– helps manufacturers assess a product against the EPEAT criteria

Subscriber Fee Schedule– shows the sliding scale fees for manufacturer subscribers

Subscriber Agreement

Small to Midsized Resellers

Reseller Partner listings

CNet provides an array of data and logo feeds to enable easy EPEAT product identification on e-commerce sites at the SKU level.

XML Feeds EPEAT offers an XML feed of up to date product information from our website to all Reseller Partners. This product data may be used to update reseller catalogs and other materials (it must be mapped to SKU level from model level). Contact Terri Linger for more information.

Purchasers

Use of EPEAT for product selection is entirely free and open to any purchaser, including small business purchasers.

Model contract and policy language purchasers can cut and paste for their own use

Reseller Partner listings – Reseller Partners commit to provide EPEAT information and support to purchasers

EPEAT Purchasing Partner Program This program offers recognition and support for purchasers who pledge to use EPEAT and to report on their purchasing annually