(a) The department may provide non-anonymized data from benchmarking reports to any utility serving a covered property or to any federal, State, or city-managed energy efficiency or management program; provided that the data will be used only for purposes of offering programs, services, and incentives related to energy and water efficiency and management; and provided that the department has first obtained the covered property owner’s written or electronic permission to share the data with the utility or energy efficiency or management program.
(b) The department may disclose any data from benchmarking reports to a third party for academic or other non-commercial research purposes; provided that such data is anonymized.
(Added by Ord.
22-17
)