(a) Annual report required. By October 1 of each year, the Director must submit a benchmarking and building performance report to the County Executive and County Council. The report must review and evaluate energy efficiency in covered buildings, including:
(1) summary statistics on the most recent reported energy benchmarking information, including information on the completeness and level of data quality of the building energy data being reported by building type per the benchmarking tool;
(2) discussion of any energy efficiency trends, cost savings, and job creation resulting from energy efficiency improvements;
(3) for County-owned covered buildings:
(A) the scores of County-owned covered buildings benchmarked; and
(B) whether the Director recommends any energy efficiency improvements for specific buildings; and
(4) building energy performance summary statistics, if an interim or final performance standard occurs for a covered building type in the current reporting cycle.
(b) Disclosure of benchmarking and building energy performance standards data. The Director must make reported aggregated benchmarking and building energy performance standard data readily available to the public, including on the open data website created under Section 2-154, and the Director may exempt information from disclosure only to the extent that disclosure is prohibited under federal or state law.
(c) Exceptions to disclosure. To the extent allowable under state law, the Director must not make the following readily available to the public:
(1) any individually attributable reported benchmarking information from the first calendar year that a covered building is required to benchmark;
(2) any individually attributable reported benchmarking or building energy performance standards information relating to a covered building if the disclosure of the covered building’s energy use would be harmful to the public interest and national security; and
(3) building performance improvement plans and associated documentation attributable to an individual covered building. (2014 L.M.C., ch. 6, § 1; 2015 L.M.C., ch. 51, §1; 2022 L.M.C., ch. 13, §1; 2023 L.M.C., ch. 21, § 1.)