§ 14.30.009. Data availability.

(a)

The department shall make available on its website, and update at least annually, energy and water consumption derived from the Benchmarking information listed in section 14.30.008. Proper citation of applicable local, state, or federal law is required for any information the Owner requests be confidential.

(b)

With a covered property owner's written or electronic permission, the manager may provide non-anonymized data from section 14.30.008 or submissions under section 14.30.012 to any utility serving a covered Property or to any federal, state, county or city-managed energy and/or water efficiency or management program, provided that the data will be used solely for purposes of offering programs, services, and incentives related to energy and water efficiency and management. Where the property owner's permission can be granted electronically through acceptance of a default option, the city shall provide a clearly delineated option for owners of covered properties to choose to opt out of granting this permission.

(c)

The manager may disclose any anonymized data from section 14.30.008 or submissions under section 14.30.012 to a third party for academic or other non-commercial research purposes.

(d)

The manager may make available on a publicly accessible website a summary report on the progress of performance for all covered properties, including but not limited to, compliance rates, trends observed, correlations of benchmarking scores and audit recommendations, correlations of benchmarking scores and retuning measures completed, the impact of audits and retuning on EUIs and ENERGY STAR Scores, and recommendations on how the uptake of energy conservation measures could be increased or the implementation of audits and retuning could be improved.

(e)

Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the manager from including all such information in a combined annual energy and water efficiency report covering the progress of all of the city's energy efficiency ordinances and programs.