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AOT tells Senate panel it is improving garage heating and tracking but data gaps persist
Summary
Agency of Transportation officials told the Senate Transportation Committee on Feb. 5 that they are meeting a biannual thermal-energy reporting requirement to BGS while grappling with manual data processes, miscategorized diesel entries and a phased conversion of garage heating to heat pumps, wood-gasifier boilers and pellets.
Agency of Transportation environmental and facilities staff told the Senate Transportation Committee on Feb. 5 that the agency is complying with a biannual thermal-energy reporting requirement to the Department of Buildings and General Services (BGS) while working to improve data accuracy and replace aging heating systems.
"It's a really labor intensive and time consuming process," Andrea Wright, the agency's environmental policy manager, told the committee as she described how dozens of staff manually enter facility energy receipts into multiple systems. Wright said the report was produced to satisfy a provision she cited as "section 45" and a 2024 T-bill requirement reported to BGS in support of the comprehensive energy plan.
The agency…
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