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Evanston committee reviews Beam benchmarking data, flags 32% nonreporting and sets baseline tasks
Summary
A city advisory committee heard Beam benchmarking data showing roughly 68% of covered buildings have reported energy usage; members pressed for data fixes, debated baseline-year choices for targets and whether 100% renewables can be met via procurement rather than on-site generation. The committee elected Joel Freeman chair and set near-term data follow-up and meeting dates.
Evanston’s Building Performance Standards technical advisory committee reviewed a Beam-provided analysis of the city’s covered buildings and identified significant gaps in reporting and verification.
Heather, a presenter working with the dataset, told the group the Beam file includes roughly 498 covered building records and several additional lines for addresses with multiple entries; after filtering repeats, the active analytic subset ranged from about 306 to 347 properties depending on filters. She said about 68% of covered buildings had reported energy usage, leaving roughly 32% with no reported site-energy data.
That compliance figure drove much of the discussion. Heather highlighted that the dataset contains multiple reporting nuances — for example, some addresses show distinct rows because they represent separate meters or multiuse campuses.…
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