New York City Services

LL87 Compliance:

Energy Audits and Retro-Commissioning

An Energy Audit is a survey and analysis of energy use in a building with the purpose of identifying opportunities to reduce the amount of energy consumed without negatively affecting the operations. Retro-commissioning is the process of ensuring that the energy systems in an existing building are installed as per the design intentions, functionally tested, and capable of being operated and maintained, according to the owner’s operational needs.

Requirements

Applicable commercial, mixed-use and residential buildings must submit an Energy Efficiency Report (EER) once every ten years. Owners are obligated to submit their EER in the calendar year in which the last digit of the year coincides with the last digit of the building’s tax block number.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/buildings/business/energy-audits-and-retro-commissioning.page

LL84 Compliance:

LL84 requires annual benchmarking data to be submitted by owners of buildings with more than 50,000 square feet for public disclosure by May 1. This will bring transparency for energy and water usage and inform building owners and tenants on how to make their buildings more efficient. https://www1.nyc.gov/html/gbee/html/plan/ll84_about.shtml

LL97 Compliance Planning:

On May 18, the City of New York enacted Local Law 97 of 2019—the most ambitious climate legislation for buildings enacted by any city in the world. The new law places buildings on a path to meet the city’s goal to reduce overall carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050. Buildings represent nearly 70 percent of those emissions.

https://www.urbangreencouncil.org/sites/default/files/2019_ll97_faqs_v5.pdf

https://www.urbangreencouncil.org/content/projects/all-about-nycs-historic-building-emissions-law