Top ENERGY STAR Cities 2014
Seven of the top 15 ENERGY STAR cities take part in IMT and NRDC's City Energy Project.
Seven of the top 15 ENERGY STAR cities take part in IMT and NRDC's City Energy Project.
GBPN's Policy Tool lets users compare, analyze 12 policies.
Building energy efficiency is widely recognized as the most cost-effective way to reduce reliance on non-renewable fuel sources and avoid the costly development of more power plants. Two key policy mechanisms available to assist with reducing building energy consumption are energy codes and benchmarking and disclosure policies. While building energy codes have been around since … Continued
Green design is good design.
Cities are already making good use of energy benchmarking data.
Leading utilities are helping building owners, property managers, businesses and governments benchmark the energy performance of their buildings. Utilities benefit by supporting benchmarking in many ways including: improving customer, helping drive peak demand reductions, enabling utility programs to achieve greater energy efficiency results per dollar, and increasing the cost-effectiveness of portfolios. The National Association of … Continued
Portfolio Manager's new web services have big implications for energy benchmarking.
DOE's new Energy Data Accelerator will scale up local successes in improving energy efficiency.
Consumer advocates back multifamily owners' access to whole-building energy data, as long as tenant privacy is protected.
The technologies that will make cities smarter are error-prone and brittle. What does that mean for city energy data?