Use Case: Whole-Building Energy Data
This use case focuses on whole-building energy data, which helps building owners understand and improve building energy performance.
Counties
Counties have the ability to implement building performance policies that create healthier, more resilient, energy-efficient communities. Check out our resources for counties below.
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Benchmarking and Transparency: Resources for State and Local Leaders
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.
Sharing Data to Motivate Action
Sharing Data to Motivate Action is intended to help implementers of benchmarking and transparency policies understand the latest techniques for developing energy benchmarking scorecards, also called energy benchmarking profiles, which present energy data to building owners as actionable information to encourage investment in efficiency.
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.
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.
Map: U.S. City, County, and State Policies for Existing Buildings: Benchmarking, Transparency and Beyond
This map summarizes which cities, counties, and states have adopted mandatory building energy benchmarking and transparency policies for existing buildings.
Stakeholder Engagement Guide: California Assembly Bill 802 Data Access and Benchmarking Policy
This document serves to guide the CEC through the process of stakeholder engagement with a focus on what the Energy Commission should do throughout 2017, prior to the point when the regulations are finalized and approved, to prepare the relevant parties for compliance with the law.
IMT 2016 Annual Report Case Study: Driving Market Demand
This annual report includes four case studies that further detail the organization’s accomplishments in 2016, including this document, which examines how IMT is working to integrate efficiency into day-to-day business and drive market demand for efficient buildings.
Alabama Residential Energy Code Field Study: Baseline Report
The Alabama Residential Energy Code Field Study: Baseline Report identifies opportunities to reduce homeowner utility bills in residential single-family new construction in Alabama by increasing compliance with the state energy code.
Guide to State and Local Energy Performance Regulations: Version 3.0
Worldwide, commercial building energy benchmarking and disclosure mandates are becoming more common as policymakers target the building sector in energy and climate protection policies. As such, policymakers are becoming more attuned to building energy performance mandates. These mandates are primarily aimed at existing buildings, which comprise the vast majority of the building stock and present … Continued