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Committee backs amendment to expand building energy benchmarking to some large residential buildings
Summary
After a detailed presentation and questioning, the Land Use Committee voted to forward an amendment aligning local benchmarking with state law so residential buildings of 50,000 sq ft or larger report energy performance to the Department of the Environment; supervisors flagged drafting fixes and discussed audits, costs and potential to capture energy source data.
The Land Use Committee on April 1 heard a detailed briefing on an ordinance amending San Francisco’s Environment Code to require annual measurement and disclosure of energy performance for certain residential and nonresidential buildings and to direct the Department of the Environment to collect and publish the data.
Director Raphael of the Department of the Environment told the committee San Francisco’s benchmarking program dates to 2011 and said 44% of the city’s emissions come from existing buildings. He described how the 2017 state law requiring utilities to provide whole-building data eased data collection and said the proposed amendment would align the city ordinance so that residential buildings of…
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