§18803 Commercial building energy consumption information sharing

Summary

Within 120 days after November 15, 2021, the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency must sign and send Congress an agreement to share commercial building energy data. Defined terms: “Administrator” means the EIA Administrator; “Agreement” means that signed information-sharing deal; “Survey” means the Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey. The agreement must let the EIA see building-level data in EPA’s Portfolio Manager and let EPA see building-level Survey data, describe how the EIA will use those data, compare and improve the data methods used by EIA, EPA, and state/local programs, and check how data for the same buildings match between the 2018 and later Survey cycles and the Portfolio Manager. It must consider whether the EIA can publish new Survey results every 3 years, alone or using Portfolio Manager data. The covered data include Portfolio Manager data, information that state or local laws require be public online, and private buildings 250,000 square feet or larger. The agreement must protect information under section 552(b)(4) of title 5, subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44, and any other applicable law (including regulations).