CITY OF BOULDER 

ENERGY BENCHMARKING

August 2017 - Current

Project Details

• City: Boulder, Colorado

• Size: 321 Buildings

• Square Footage Affected: 27,476,366 sf

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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 Boulder City Council adopted the Boulder Building Performance Ordinance (Ordinance No. 8071) which requires building owners to annually report their building energy use and implement energy efficiency requirements

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• Overlay Consulting assisted with developing the program’s database, managing the city’s Help Center, supported both web-based and in-person trainings as well as ongoing QA/QC checks

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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