Managing Benchmarking Data Quality
Managing Benchmarking Data Quality was written to help benchmarking policy implementers understand current best practices for managing data gathered from ordinances in states, counties, and cities across the U.S.
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Analyzing Benchmarking Data
Analyzing Benchmarking Data provides useful knowledge on the annual benchmarking reports that many jurisdictions publish to summarize 12 months of reported energy and/or water utility data. It includes discussions of the types of analysis that jurisdictions with benchmarking laws have used to extract valuable information from the benchmarking data and gives examples of how some jurisdictions have calculated and displayed their analytical findings.
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Putting Data to Work: How Cities are Using Building Energy Data to Drive Efficiency
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Putting Data to Work: Impact Assessment to Estimate the Savings from Energy Efficiency Programs
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Raising the IQ of Smart Cities
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