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Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2011
Level City or Town
State(s) All States, Wyoming
Source U.S. Department Of Energy
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources
U.S. Department of Energy fact sheet guide to Energy Savings Performance Contracting for governments....

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2011
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Policy Areas Energy, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Democracy & Governance
This toolkit outlines how local governments can implement "lead by example" programs that reduce energy consumption and emissions, foster markets for sustainable products, encourage green building standards, and promote economic development. It provides a guide for developing facility...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2008
Level City or Town
State(s) Texas
Source City of Austin
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources
This ordinance requires commercial building owners to benchmark and report their energy use rating by June 1st each year. The ordinance applies to commercial buildings 10,000 square foot or larger that are located within Austin City limits and receive electricity from Austin Energy....

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2008
Level City or Town
State(s) Texas
Source Austin City Council
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Housing, Public Safety
This is a point of sale ordinance that applies to anyone selling their home. When someone sells, their home, the ordinance requires the seller have a standardized Austin Energy audit performed on their house and the results must be disclosed to the prospective buyers. An energy audit...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2013
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources
As states and cities seek to meet their energy savings and carbon emissions reduction goals, new and innovative solutions are needed to improve energy efficiency in the stock of existing homes and buildings. One key tool-building energy rating and disclosure (BER&D) -seeks...

Type Act or Session Law
Year 2008
Level City or Town
State(s) -
Source Council Of The District Of Columbia
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources
This act establishes the authority to contract with the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) to administer sustainable energy programs in the district of Columbia. It also sets up an advisory board for the SEU and defines their responsibilities. The act includes provisions for a renewable...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2010
Level City or Town
State(s) Ohio
Source Policy Matters Ohio
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources
This brief provides sustainable workforce development strategies which include driving investment in green energy infrastructure, promoting best value contracting, and creating job training and apprenticeship programs in sustainable industries. It also highlights examples of policies...

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source COWS
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Governments everywhere are looking for ways to create new, quality jobs, despite restricted budgets. Although many have enacted programs that facilitate energy efficiency retrofits for the residential and commercial sectors, retrofit of public buildings has garnered little policy...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2013
Level City or Town
State(s) Illinois
Source City Council of the City of Chicago
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Public Spaces, Energy
This act establishes the Chicago building energy benchmarking program. Each building owner shall report benchmarking information including building identification number, address, square footage, energy performance score, energy use intensity, and annual greenhouse gas emissions....

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Institute for Market Transformation
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy
It is relatively easy to make the connection that tracking and disclosing a building's energy usage will promote energy savings, but in fact, there are many other benefits that go far beyond simply kilowatt hours. While benchmarking brings building owners' attention to energy efficiency,...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2009
Level City or Town, County
State(s) Illinois
Source Center for Neighborhood Technology
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development
This report outlines a two‐track process for creating a Chicago Area Building Energy Efficiency System. The first track identifies funding, including ARRA funds to quickly ramp up existing programs to launch significant weatherization initiatives in appropriate locations around the...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2011
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source COWS
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
The municipal, university, school, and hospital sectors (MUSH) have vast potential for job creation through energy efficient retrofit installation. This policy brief outlines potential savings from retrofit programs, workforce standards, and financing strategies. It also recommends...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Water Power Sewer
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources
This fifth annual report details the energy performance of 468 San Francisco municipal facilities encompassing nearly 49 million square feet of building area during calendar year 2015. San Francisco began to benchmark its properties in 2011, when the San Francisco Existing Commercial...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2013
Level City or Town
State(s) New York
Source U.S. Department Of Energy
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Democracy & Governance
This report assesses the impact of New York City's Benchmarking and Transparency Policy on the real estate market, energy consumption, and non-energy impacts. It finds that in its first four years, this policy has impacted real estate decision making, saved millions in energy costs,...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source American Sustainable Business Council
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy
The report examines the growth of the green building sector, the business case for high-performance buildings, the potential cost savings for property owners, and the role of green buildings in addressing climate change and reducing carbon emissions. The report also provides various...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) Minnesota
Source Minneapolis City Council
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Public Spaces, Energy
This ordinance establishes the Minneapolis building energy benchmarking program. It requires each city-owned building and covered building to be benchmarked for the previous calendar year. Such information shall be made available to the public, including summary statistics on the...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Institute For Market Transformation
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources
We have entered a new era of constrained spending, high unemployment and complex political turmoil, yet the question on everyone's mind is simple: How do we create jobs? Surprisingly, the answer is right in front of us. New laws in New York City, San Francisco and other large cities...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) New York
Source City of New York
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Energy, Environment & Natural Resources
This ordinance requires the city commissioner to regularly submit proposed amendments to the city's energy code to improve energy efficiency. The proposed amendments should bring the city's code up to date with recommendations from the New York State energy research and development...

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Energy Star
Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources
This fact sheet documents the energy-saving of buildings that consistently benchmark energy performance, with increased efficiency across all building types that track performance. It estimates that 18 million metric tons of CO2 could be reduced annually through consistent performance...

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source State And Local Energy Efficiency Action Network
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Democracy & Governance
Benchmarking is the process of comparing inputs, processes, or outputs within or between organizations, often with an aim toward motivating performance improvement. Benchmarking typically measures performance using an indicator per common unit (e.g., cost per unit produced), which...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2022
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) Florida
Source Florida State Legislature
Policy Areas Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Finance & Procurement
These statutes amend bills by the Florida Legislature in order to authorize financing agreements and voluntary property assessments. The reforms allow the state to finance property improvements that increase energy efficiency, sustainability, and structural durability. They also allow...

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2007
Level City or Town
State(s) Ohio
Source Policy Matters Ohio
Policy Areas Energy, Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources, Housing
This report examines the impact of weatherization programs on climate change mitigation and the development of a green economy, and creation of green infrastructure. The report provides insights into the economic development, utilities costs, and workforce force implications of weatherization...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2019
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source San Francisco County Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Food, Health, Public Safety, Public Spaces
The production and management of single-use food and beverage ware have significant environmental impacts, including but not limited to contamination; consumption of energy, water, and nonrenewable fossil fuels; and emissions of greenhouse gasses. In order to address this, this ordinance...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2010
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source City and County of San Francisco
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Public Spaces, Energy
This ordinance amends the San Francisco Environmental code by requiring owners of nonresidential buildings to conduct Energy Efficiency Audits of their properties and file Annual Energy Benchmark Summaries for their buildings, that will be publicly shared. Not only will this double...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2013
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source Boston City Council
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Public Spaces, Energy
In order to reduce the emissions of air pollutants from energy production, encourage efficient use of energy and water, and develop further investments in building a green economy, this ordinance requires that the City and building owners disclose the previous year's energy and water...

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