[Adopted 6-7-2017 by L.L. No. 1-2017]
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Buildings are the single largest user of energy in the State of New York. The poorest performing buildings typically use several times the energy of the highest performing buildings for the exact same building use. As such, this article will use building energy benchmarking to promote the public health, safety, and welfare by making available good, actionable information on municipal building energy use to help identify opportunities to cut costs and reduce pollution in the City of Geneva, New York.
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Collecting, reporting, and sharing building energy benchmarking data on a regular basis allows municipal officials and the public to understand the energy performance of municipal buildings relative to similar buildings nationwide. Equipped with this information, the City of Geneva, New York, is able to make smarter, more cost-effective operational and capital investment decisions, reward efficiency, and drive widespread, continuous improvement.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BENCHMARKING INFORMATION
Information generated by Portfolio Manager®, as herein defined, including descriptive information about the physical building and its operational characteristics.
BUILDING ENERGY BENCHMARKING
The process of measuring a building's energy use, tracking that use over time, and comparing performance to similar buildings.
COMMISSIONER
The head of the Department.
COVERED MUNICIPAL BUILDING
A building or facility that is owned or occupied by the City of Geneva that is 1,000 square feet or larger in size.
DEPARTMENT
The Office of the Comptroller.
ENERGY
Electricity, natural gas, steam, hot or chilled water, fuel oil, or other product for use in a building, or renewable on-site electricity generation, for purposes of providing heating, cooling, lighting, water heating, or for powering or fueling other end uses in the building and related facilities, as reflected in utility bills or other documentation of actual energy use.
ENERGY PERFORMANCE SCORE
The numeric rating generated by Portfolio Manager® that compares the energy usage of the building to that of similar buildings.
ENERGY USE INTENSITY (EUI)
The kBTUs (1,000 British thermal units) used per square foot of gross floor area.
GROSS FLOOR AREA
The total number of enclosed square feet measured between the exterior surfaces of the fixed walls within any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
PORTFOLIO MANAGER®
Energy star Portfolio Manager®, the Internet-based tool developed and maintained by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to track and assess the relative energy performance of buildings nationwide, or its successor.
UTILITY
An entity that distributes and sells energy to covered municipal buildings.
WEATHER-NORMALIZED SITE EUI
The amount of energy that would have been used by a property under thirty-year average temperatures, accounting for the difference between average temperatures and yearly fluctuations.
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This article is applicable to all covered municipal buildings as defined in § 140-2 of this article.
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The Commissioner may exempt a particular covered municipal building from the benchmarking requirement if the Commissioner determines that it has characteristics that make benchmarking impractical.
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No later than May 1 every year, the Commissioner or his or her designee from the Department shall enter into Portfolio Manager® the total energy consumed by each covered municipal building, along with all other descriptive information required by Portfolio Manager® for the previous calendar year.
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For new covered municipal buildings that have not accumulated 12 months of energy use data by the first applicable date following occupancy for inputting energy use into Portfolio Manager®, the Commissioner or his or her designee from the Department shall begin inputting data in the following year.
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The Department shall make available to the public on the Internet benchmarking information for the previous calendar year:
(1) 
No later than September 1 of each year thereafter for covered municipal buildings; and
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The Department shall make available to the public on the Internet and update, at least annually, the following benchmarking information:
(1) 
Summary statistics on energy consumption for covered municipal buildings derived from aggregation of benchmarking information; and
(2) 
For each covered municipal building individually:
(a) 
The status of compliance with the requirements of this article; and
(b) 
The building address, primary use type, and gross floor area; and
(c) 
Annual summary statistics, including site EUI, weather-normalized source EUI, annual GHG emissions, and an energy performance score, where available; and
(d) 
A comparison of the annual summary statistics (as required by § 140-5B(2)(c) of this article) across calendar years for all years since annual reporting under this article has been required for said building.
The Department shall maintain records as necessary for carrying out the purposes of this article, including but not limited to energy bills and other documents received from tenants and/or utilities. Such records shall be preserved by the Department for a period of three years.
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The Comptroller or his or her designee from the Department shall be the chief enforcement officer of this article.
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The chief enforcement officer of this article may promulgate regulations necessary for the administration of the requirements of this article.
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Within 30 days after each anniversary date of the effective date of this article, the chief enforcement officer shall submit a report to the City Council, including but not limited to summary statistics on energy consumption for covered municipal buildings derived from aggregation of benchmarking information, a list of all covered municipal buildings identifying each covered municipal building that the Commissioner determined to be exempt from the benchmarking requirement and the reason for the exemption, and the status of compliance with the requirements of this article.
This article shall be effective immediately upon passage.
The invalidity or unenforceability of any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, provision, or phrase of the aforementioned sections, as declared by the valid judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, provision, or phrase, which shall remain in full force and effect.