New York City in December 2009 sawMayor Bloomberg sign Local Law 84 on Benchmarking Energy &Water Usage and Local Law 87 Energy Audits &Retro-commissioning, also called the Greener Greater Buildings Plan. The NYC energy laws require building owners to benchmark andreport building energy and water use, perform energy audits andretro-commissioning.

The compliance schedule for the lawshas already begun, and non-residential building owners (perguidelines below) should currently be benchmarking their energy andwater usage to be reported next year.

Below is a summary of the laws andthe intent behind them.

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