Date: April 30, 2015

In 2008, Better Building Energy Data Accelerator partners Seattle and Puget Sound Energy (PSE) began the stakeholder engagement process to enable whole-building data access for multi-family and commercial building owners locally. As one of the first local governments to pursue data access in support of benchmarking, Seattle city government worked with local utilities to ensure building owners had access to data to support local benchmarking efforts in 2012. The local stakeholder engagement efforts also resulted in valuable feedback for future iterations of the data access offering from PSE and could serve as valuable input to other local governments embarking on their own efforts.