Data is only useful when put to use. Across the U.S., an ever-growing number of state and local jurisdictions are implementing building performance reporting laws regarding building energy and water use in the commercial and multifamily sectors. This wealth of performance information is not yet being deployed to its full potential to drive smarter business decisions … Continued
So, what does transformative work look like in Chicago? Amy Jewel, the City Advisor in Chicago for 5+ years, gives us a peek.
New, free collection of pioneering tools shows cities how to reduce building energy waste to meet ambitious climate goals. Across the country, U.S. mayors and local leaders are taking action on ambitious and aggressive climate goals. To make these goals a reality, today the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) and the Natural Resources … Continued
To guide local governments on how to navigate this complex issue, IMT developed Rethinking Energy Data Access: Conquering Barriers to Achieve Local Climate Goals.
This use case focuses on distribution grid performance, which helps local governments identify opportunities to improve local reliability and resilience, to improve emergency planning and response, and to encourage targeted investments in distributed energy resources (DERs) for health, safety, and cost reasons.
This use case focuses on community-wide energy usage data, which helps local governments calculate carbon emissions, set policy goals, track program progress over time, and identify opportunities for more targeted outreach around priorities like building efficiency.
This use case focuses on anonomyzed energy usage profile data, which helps local governments understand energy usage trends within the community that may inform the development of energy policies and programs.
This use case focuses on whole-building energy data, which helps building owners understand and improve building energy performance.
This use case focuses on energy efficiency program savings and participation data, which helps local governments understand trends in energy efficiency program uptake, identify under-represented neighborhoods that could benefit from efficiency, and assess trends in costs related to the implementation of particular measures, which may make them more or less likely to be acted upon by building owners.
This resource guide provides state and local leaders with streamlined access to key existing resources for developing and implementing high-impact building energy benchmarking and transparency programs in their jurisdictions.