A bill to require a study on the impact of State and local performance benchmarking and disclosure policies for commercial and multifamily buildings, to provide for competitive awards to utilities, States, and units of local government, and for other purposes.
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Just introduced
What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Apr 22, 2015)
This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to study and report on: (1) the impact of state and local performance benchmarking and disclosure policies, and associated building efficiency policies, for commercial and multifamily buildings; (2) the impact of programs and systems in which utilities provide aggregated information regarding whole building energy consumption and usage information to owners of multitenant buildings; and (3) the best practice policy approaches studied in those impact analyses that have resulted in the greatest improvements in building energy efficiency.
DOE may give grants to: (1) utilities, utility regulators, and utility partners to implement programs to provide aggregated whole building energy consumption information to multitenant building owners; and (2) states and local governments to implement benchmarking and disclosure policies for commercial and multifamily buildings.
What just happenedApr 30, 2015
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateApr 22, 2015
- Apr 30, 2015Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
Energy and Natural Resources Committee - Apr 22, 2015IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Energy and Natural Resources Committee - Apr 22, 2015IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate