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Site to use peer pressure to reduce building energy use

An urban environmental group is putting big city buildings' energy use on display for everyone to see.

Metered New York is a website designed by the Urban Green Council, an energy advocacy group, that aims to take all of the data collected by the city on buildings' energy use and make it easy to digest and compare. Billed as a resource for owners and tenants the site will also show which buildings are advancing energy efficiency goals and which are falling behind, as clean energy becomes an increasingly important element in city real estate.

"The more sophisticated owners already look at this stuff," said Russell Unger, executive director of the Urban Green Council. "You don't have to be an energy expert to say, 'oh, I'm in the middle of the pack.'"

The data comes from a law the city passed in 2009 which requires all buildings over 50,000 square feet to report on their energy and data use each year. It encompasses about 14,000 school, office and apartment buildings which occupy almost half of the city's square footage and account for 48 percent of city building energy use.

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