City and State Energy Compliance Mandates

Throughout the United States, over 50 cities, states, or municipal governments have passed utility benchmarking policies, requiring buildings to track and report their annual energy and water consumption to increase building performance and cut waste. These policies vary widely with regards to the square footage and type of buildings that are required to comply as well as the compliance standard, timeline for reporting, and penalty for noncompliance.

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Staying Up-to-Date on Compliance Mandates

The typical scope of work for a portfolio-based approach includes:

Tracking all current city-mandated annual benchmarking requirements and audit or retro-commissioning (RCx) programs along with identifying new city, state, or federal programs that may apply.
Investigating and applying for exemptions or alternative compliance options, if applicable.
Using the ENERGY STAR^®Portfolio Manager^®tool to complete benchmarking requirements, complying with specific nuances that local cities, counties, or states may require.
Completing Energy audits, RCx services, and Tune-Up surveys to meet applicable city-mandated requirements prior to the due dates to avoid potential fines.
Coordinating with the client as needed to resolve any deficiencies noted during the surveys.
Filing the appropriate benchmarking, audit, tune-up, or RCx documentation with each City using the appropriate online reporting tools.
Budgeting for all compliance-related efficiency work annually to allow client to plan accordingly.

Navigating this ever-changing landscape requires keeping up to date on the evolving requirements as well as understanding compliance exemptions that can be applied. Burton is intimately familiar with these requirements and ensures compliance for thousands of buildings across the country, with Burton assuming risk for non-compliance in many cases.

Burton’s engineers are accredited to provide the technical services necessary to complete all compliance work for most cities throughout the country. Burton understands the complexities of these mandated assessments and advises on due dates, exemptions, and extensions. Our experience with local and state energy mandates allows us to complete all aspects of filing to fully meet each city’s specific ordinance requirements.

See our case study for how we’ve eliminated over $100,000 in fines for a national retailer.

The requirements of commercial building audit, retuning, and retrocommissioning (RCx) policies in cities and states around the U.S., go to https://imt.org/resources/comparison-of-u-s-building-audit-tune-ups-and-retrocommissioning-policies/

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