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As benchmarking season comes to a close, we want to recognize the incredible work that goes into meeting these annual compliance deadlines. From building owners and managers to utilities and state partners, it truly takes a collective effort to make progress toward building performance goals.
Similar to efforts by some utilities to claim energy savings from the support for adoption and compliance of building energy codes in new construction, an attribution framework can provide a pathway for utilities to claim savings for existing building policies.
Buildings account for a whopping 37% of global emissions, but are often not top-of-mind for those interested in mitigation. Fortunately, policies known as "building performance standards" are growing in popularity, have a track record of success, and function much like a conceptual carbon price.
“There’s an enormous amount of existing building stock,” said Veronique Bugnion, CEO of ClearlyEnergy, a Maryland-based consulting firm. “To tackle the emissions of the existing buildings, new tools were required and that’s where building performance standards came from.”
A report from ClearlyEnergy and the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) provides key performance metrics for eight of the fourteen BPS policies currently adopted across the U.S.