Unlocking the Power of Energy Consumption and Asset Data for Program and Policy Design

Unlocking the Power of Energy Consumption and Asset Data for Program and Policy Design Unlocking the Power of Energy Consumption and Asset Data for Program and Policy Design Howard Choy, Los Angeles County Office of Sustainability Stephanie Pincetl and Sinnott Murphy, University of California - Los Angeles Marc Costa, The Energy Coalition ABSTRACT Access to building energy use data has become a pr. [...] Barriers Barrier 1: Energy Data Limited access to energy data in California hinders the effective design and implementation of policies and programs and limits understanding of the key drivers of energy use. [...] Department of Energy (DOE) effort to evaluate the physical characteristics and as-built energy efficiency of buildings through the Building Energy Asset Score.4 The other end of the spectrum is the virtual energy audit which relies primarily on interval energy use data and secondarily on asset information. [...] The size and diversity of the County’s service territory makes coordinated action with other jurisdictions and stakeholders more challenging, limiting the effectiveness and efficiency of regional responses to the complex and interrelated issues of demand management, clean energy integration, and climate change mitigation. [...] A pilot effort to implement these solutions began in 2010 as part of the Community Energy Efficiency Project Management System (CEEPMS) in the City of Santa Monica and the City of Brea.7 Santa Monica and Brea received grant funding from Southern California Edison to pilot the development of an energy efficiency project management system to address the gap of calculating community-wide energy effic.