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Advocates push ‘Energy Data Bill of Rights’ to make building, vehicle and generation data searchable and machine‑readable
Summary
A bipartisan concept — the Connecticut Energy Data Access Bill of Rights — drew support from environmental groups, municipal leaders and nonprofits, who said publicly available, machine‑readable energy data would help towns, researchers and planners track progress and design local decarbonization programs.
A proposal to make energy‑relevant datasets available in standardized, machine‑readable form — dubbed an Energy Data Access Bill of Rights (HB 6780) — won broad support in testimony from environmental groups, municipal officials and clean‑energy advocates.
What the bill would do: Supporters say the bill would guarantee public access to key datasets needed for planning and monitoring: building characteristics, state‑owned building usage, numbers and types of cars registered by town, distributed…
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