Key Points
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While compliance with Local Law 84, Benchmarking, was due on May 1, 2011, the City will accept the 2010 Benchmarking Complaince Report up to December 31, 2011 without the issuance of a penalty.
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Bright Power provides benchmarking through EnergyScoreCards™ (www.energyscorecards.com),
an online software tool that simplifies the process and provides valuable energy usage information for owners and managers.
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Whether you have general questions, need specific information, or want a price for benchmarking your portfolio, please contact Phil Vos at 212-803-5868 x2013 or pvos@brightpower.com, or fill out our information request form.
Local Law 84 (LL84) is part of PlaNYC’s “Greener, Greater Buildings Plan” to reduce the New York City’s carbon emissions. Today's existing buildings will still make up 85 percent of all real estate in NYC in 2030. As a result, LL84 focuses on improving the city’s ability to track and monitor the energy consumption and carbon emissions for these properties. Properties subject to the requirements of LL84 include:
- buildings over 50,000 square feet in area;
- two or more buildings that have the same owner, together exceed 100,000 square feet and are on the same tax lot; and
- two or more buildings under the same condo board that together exceed 100,000 square feet, regardless of their relative location.
And so, benchmarking provides everyone with the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of their buildings' energy and water consumption, and therefore a snapshot of their buildings' energy performance for a given period of time. At Bright Power, we offer benchmarking services that include everything you need to comply with LL84 and improve your buildings’ energy performance, thereby improving the quality and value of your investment. With experience benchmarking over 1,500 buildings, our expert team is ready to help you.
Bright Power provides benchmarking through EnergyScoreCards (www.energyscorecards.com), an online software tool that simplifies the process by automatically gathering utility bills. It also generates a report analyzing the building’s energy use, and compares it to that of similar properties in the tool’s database. EnergyScoreCards offers a variety of indices of energy use, rank buildings, and even indicate which major end-uses — such as seasonal heating and cooling, and non-seasonal baseloads — are using energy efficiently and which aren’t. Such tools provide the user with the extra information to identify energy and money saving opportunities, while still allowing compliance with LL 84.
Whether you have general questions, need specific information, or want a price for benchmarking your portfolio, please contact Phil Vos at 212-803-5868 x2013 or pvos@brightpower.com, or fill out our information request form.
