Know Your Score: Building Energy Scoring

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Fort Collins Utilities is exploring options for a potential building energy scoring and benchmarking program that could impact local businesses. Cities across the nation have implemented similar programs in recent years.

Energy scoring and benchmarking can be beneficial tools in helping owners, property managers and tenants:

  • understand their building’s energy use
  • establish a baseline for tracking and identifying opportunities to reduce energy-related costs
  • improve occupancy and retention rates

View the BES Council Agenda Item Summary(External link) and work session video(External link) to learn more - starts at 01:07:08. City staff are working to determine the next steps to launch the Building Energy Scoring initiative in 2019 with City Council based on working group recommendations. Check this page periodically for updates.


Fort Collins Utilities is exploring options for a potential building energy scoring and benchmarking program that could impact local businesses. Cities across the nation have implemented similar programs in recent years.

Energy scoring and benchmarking can be beneficial tools in helping owners, property managers and tenants:

  • understand their building’s energy use
  • establish a baseline for tracking and identifying opportunities to reduce energy-related costs
  • improve occupancy and retention rates

View the BES Council Agenda Item Summary(External link) and work session video(External link) to learn more - starts at 01:07:08. City staff are working to determine the next steps to launch the Building Energy Scoring initiative in 2019 with City Council based on working group recommendations. Check this page periodically for updates.


Consultation has concluded

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    05 Oct 2017

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  • MPG for Homes—The Quest for the Best(External link)

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    An mpg-like rating for homes is here(External link). For the first time in history, people can find out the expected energy use of any home in the U.S. This single piece of information conveys helpful insights including the expected cost of maintaining a home, the environmental impact of the home, and a proxy for how comfortable the home is likely to be.