CITY OF DENVER 

ENERGY BENCHMARKING

Spring 2017- Current

Project Details

• City: Denver, Colorado

• Size: 3,034 buildings

• Square Footage Affected: 354,749,447

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Overlay Services

• Automated Building Report Tracking

• Help Desk and Communication Tracking

• Automated Reporting and Score Cards

• Online Interactive Mapping

Overview:

• The Benchmarking Requirement went into effect in 2017 and requires all buildings over 25,000 square feet to annually report energy use

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• Energize Denver has the goal to improve the energy efficiency of Denver’s large buildings 30 percent by 2030 and brought Overlay on for more efficient tracking and more accurate energy data

Results:

• Denver’s large buildings cut their energy use by 4.5 percent from 2016 to 2017, totaling $13.5 million in energy cost savings

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• In both its first and second year of benchmarking, Energize Denver saw 90 percent compliance of all covered buildings

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