{"id":64,"date":"2009-12-16T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2014-01-08T20:02:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T03:02:44","slug":"new-york-mandatory-energy-disclosure-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/new-york-mandatory-energy-disclosure-law\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">New York City Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure Law<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">On December 9,\u00a02009, New York City Council passed\u00a0a six-part\u00a0energy efficiency legislation\u00a0called the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, aimed at\u00a0increasing the energy efficiency of large commercial buildings.\u00a0 It was enacted as part of\u00a0<a title=\"PlaNYC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/planyc2030\/html\/home\/home.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><em>PlaNYC<\/em><\/span><\/a>, which has a goal of achieving a 30 percent reduction in New York City\u2019s annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.\u00a0 The plan is divided into six components: New York City Energy Code, Lighting Upgrades and Sub-Metering, Benchmarking, Audits and Retrofits, Green Workforce Development Training, and Green Building Financing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">The key portions of the new law require that new construction and retrofittings comply with the city&#8217;s energy code; lighting upgrades and installation of submeters in buildings of 50,000 sq. ft. or more, beginning in July 2010; benchmarking of all city-owned buildings beginning May 1, 2010 and every year thereafter; benchmarking of commercial buildings of 50,000 sq. ft. or more beginning May 1, 2011 and every year thereafter; disclosure of building energy ratings to a public, online website, beginning September 2011; and energy audits and retrocommissioning once every 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">The city is also implementing a program to train workers to perform these required upgrades, retrofits and new construction.\u00a0 Additionally, the city is establishing a fund, using $16 million in Federal stimulus funding to assist building owners in complying with the new laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">For more information, visit New York City&#8217;s\u00a0website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/planyc2030\/html\/plan\/buildings_plan.shtml\">http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/planyc2030\/html\/plan\/buildings_plan.shtml<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure Law On December 9,\u00a02009, New York City Council passed\u00a0a six-part\u00a0energy efficiency legislation\u00a0called the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, aimed at\u00a0increasing the energy efficiency of large commercial buildings.\u00a0 It was enacted as part of\u00a0PlaNYC, which \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/new-york-mandatory-energy-disclosure-law\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energydisclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}