This year, many states and municipalities in President Biden’s National Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) coalition will implement BEPS. This initiative takes a crucial step forward in advancing energy efficiency and reducing emissions in the building sector.
The resolution urges state commissions to help owners of multi-tenant properties access whole-building and tenant utility data in a standardized format that protects customer privacy.
The EPA is looking for input from building owners, building managers, and building consultants on where they need utility data most and why by June 7th, 2024.
This blueprint is a strategic plan for building decarbonization, focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the residential and commercial building sector.
The electrification movement has major impact on the grid and therefore on utilities being able to support the need.
There’s a dilemma arising from the simultaneous demands for reducing emissions and accommodating growing energy needs.
There is much to learn from other industries in the pursuit of the democratization of utility data.
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.
The energy landscape is changing. In some jurisdictions, gas utilities are facing moratoria on new customer connections. Electricity companies are seeing initiatives to engage customers with behind the meter solutions. New dynamics in the market also run the gamut, from aggregators allowing customers direct participation in demand response, capacity, and ancillary services to solar and storage solution deployments helping customers avoid volumetric charges and optimizing for certain rates. Utilities are impacted by it all.