Part 1 | Utility Data Access and Building Performance
Throughout 2026, one topic has kept resurfacing in our conversations with utilities, policymakers, implementers, and efficiency leaders: access to whole-building energy data.
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Integrity: Why It Matters in 2026
At Calico Energy, we’re on a mission to help utilities, energy providers, and their customers make smarter decisions through better data.
Our core values of Integrity, Transparency, Creativity, and People guide everything we do. They shape how we approach challenges, build partnerships, and deliver results.
Better Buildings, Bigger Savings: Why Accurate Data is Key to Decarbonization
The push to cut carbon emissions is picking up speed, and the real estate industry is right in the middle of it.
Energy Efficiency in 2025: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Fight for Progress
In 2025, energy efficiency will be at a crossroads, facing both hurdles and opportunities as electricity demand soars and federal policies shift under a new administration and Congress.
Targeting Buildings in Addition to Customers: A New Paradigm in Energy Management
For decades, gas pipelines have powered homes and businesses, but today, this infrastructure is a major hurdle for a decarbonized future.
Data Sharing: Learning from other Industries
There is much to learn from other industries in the pursuit of the democratization of utility data.
ACEEE’s Recent Report
On January 17, 2024, ACEEE came out with a report titled “Affordable Housing Needs More Support to Comply with Building Performance Standards.”
The title tells a big story.
Joint Letter from DOE, EPA, and HUD requesting utility data for multifamily properties
On January 25th, 2024, the Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a joint statement asking utility companies to come to the table and make energy and water usage data available for multifamily properties. The essence of the statement was their joint commitment to “championing the availability of whole-building utility data access.”
What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advancement of Building Performance Standards
What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advancement of Building Performance Standards (BEPS) This blog is an update to Calico’s original blog post titled “What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advent of Building Performance Standards (BEPS)” from August of 2020. We have woven our 2023 update in italics along with our original 2020 text. Then: If you’re in the utility world, or the energy policy world, or the building management world… Read More »What’s Your Baseline? Benchmarking and the Advancement of Building Performance Standards
Yes, Carbon Matters. But…
If we narrow our focus too much as we try to move the right needles as quickly as possible, we oversimplify to the point of unsustainability.