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Mayor Lee signs ordinance requiring energy benchmarking and audits for large commercial buildings
Summary
Mayor Edwin Lee signed the Existing Commercial Building Energy Performance Ordinance on the Board of Supervisors chamber floor, directing commercial buildings larger than 10,000 square feet to benchmark energy use annually and complete energy-efficiency audits over a three-year period.
Mayor Edwin Lee signed the Existing Commercial Building Energy Performance Ordinance on the Board of Supervisors chamber floor, directing commercial buildings larger than 10,000 square feet to benchmark energy use annually and complete energy-efficiency audits over a three-year period.
The ordinance, developed with a task force that included building owners, managers, architects and financiers, requires owners to benchmark annual energy usage through the EPA’s free online application and to perform audits that identify cost-effective efficiency upgrades. The Department of the Environment’s Energy Watch program may provide incentives to get recommended work completed.
The measure “assures that our new construction has the highest level of environmental…
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