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Benchmarking Season Wrap-Up: Key Takeaways from 2025
As benchmarking season comes to a close, we want to recognize the incredible work that goes into meeting these annual compliance deadlines. From building owners and managers to utilities and state partners, it truly takes a collective effort to make progress toward building performance goals.
Wed, 17 Sep 2025
Benchmarking Season Wrap-Up: What Happened on the Building Performance Standard Front?
Part I of this post summarized progress made in 2025 towards collecting energy data from buildings across the country: Benchmarking. This post looks at developments in policies that set emissions or consumption goals on buildings: Building Performance Standards (BPS).
Fri, 09 Jan 2026
Building Performance Standards Utility Attribution Framework
Similar to efforts by some utilities to claim energy savings from the support for adoption and compliance of building energy codes in new construction, an attribution framework can provide a pathway for utilities to claim savings for existing building policies.
Wed, 10 Sep 2025
The Largest Carbon Pricing Program You've Never Heard Of
Buildings account for a whopping 37% of global emissions, but are often not top-of-mind for those interested in mitigation. Fortunately, policies known as "building performance standards" are growing in popularity, have a track record of success, and function much like a conceptual carbon price.
Wed, 02 Apr 2025
Maryland Sets Energy Standards for Large Buildings by 2040
“There’s an enormous amount of existing building stock,” said Veronique Bugnion, CEO of ClearlyEnergy, a Maryland-based consulting firm. “To tackle the emissions of the existing buildings, new tools were required and that’s where building performance standards came from.”
Tue, 29 Oct 2024
Climate Impacts of Building Performance Standards: Measuring the Pathway to Net-Zero
A report from ClearlyEnergy and the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) provides key performance metrics for eight of the fourteen BPS policies currently adopted across the U.S.
Mon, 02 Oct 2023
2025 BEAMie Awards
Each year ClearlyEnergy recognizes jurisdictions that have achieved record success and growth in their benchmarking and building performance standards programs. Click to learn more about our BEAMie Award Winners for 2025. Congratulations to all of our winners and partners for a great year.