Illuminating insights. Driving transformation.
Building Baselines.
A new initiative committed to advancing awareness of whole building data access as a driver for energy industry and climate-related goals.
Why Building Baselines™?
Building Baselines™ Interview Series
Why Whole Building Data
Access Matters
How Can I Get Involved?
Why Building Baselines?
Building Baselines is a hub dedicated to advancing conversations about energy data access and its role in driving market transformation.
Created to capture and share insights from industry leaders, Building Baselines highlights the critical importance of whole-building energy data—why it matters, how it’s accessed, and what it makes possible. From enabling compliance with benchmarking and performance standards to empowering building owners, policymakers, and utilities, whole-building data access is central to shaping fair, transparent, and effective energy markets.
Through interviews, articles, and curated discussions, Building Baselines brings together diverse voices across the energy sector to illuminate challenges, highlight opportunities, and chart a path toward lasting market transformation built on equitable, data-driven solutions.
Building Baselines™ Interview Series
Max Stewart
Max Stewart is the Senior Environmental Analyst at Mercy Housing, leading data-driven sustainability initiatives to improve energy and water efficiency across one of the nation’s largest affordable housing portfolios.
Tamara Chernomordik
Tamara Chernomordik, Kimco Realty’s Vice President of Corporate Responsibility, brings a rare blend of expertise to the challenge of driving sustainability in commercial real estate.
Erin Cosgrove, Esq.
In this Building Baselines interview, Erin Cosgrove, Director of Policy and Programs with Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP), shares insights from her career at the intersection of environmental advocacy, energy policy, and law.
Emily Curley
Calico’s conversation with Emily Curley explores how her foundational experiences continue to shape her strategy for empowering building owners and communities to take meaningful climate action. We hope you enjoy!
Tracy Narel
Calico Energy sat down with Tracy Narel on the heels of his retirement after over 30 years with the EPA and ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.
Melissa Kelley
Calico Energy invited Melissa Kelley to sit down and share her work with Leidos and the work they are doing to support HUD initiatives.
Why Whole Building Data Access Matters
When it comes to building benchmarking, compliance often dominates the conversation. But it’s so much more than that. Understanding building-level energy consumption unlocks value for utilities and industry stakeholders, and scalable building sector climate solutions depend on it. Here’s why whole building benchmarking is worth getting right.
Resources and Industry Perspectives
Across the industry, experts are working on goals related to whole building benchmarking, building performance, building sector decarbonization, grid-interactivity and more. Take a look through these must-reads.
Rethinking Energy Data Access
The Institute for Market Transformation’s Rethinking Energy Data Access: Conquering Barriers to Achieve Local Climate Goals white paper synthesizes key recommendations for local governments, utilities, and utility regulators on how to work together to reform the ways in which data is requested, protected, and shared to advance critical goals for each party and benefit local businesses and residents.
The Future of Benchmarking: A Geography First Approach
This white paper explores a geography-first approach to utility-enabled whole building benchmarking: regional stakeholder and utility working together to create value for customers, reduce costs for utilities and build scalable ways to achieve energy savings and carbon emissions reductions.
The State of Energy Efficiency
The ACEEE State Energy Efficiency Scorecard provides a progress report on state energy efficiency policies and programs that save energy while producing environmental and economic benefits.
Effective Building Benchmarking and Performance Policy: The Dos and Don’ts of Building Level Utility Data
It’s important to position utilities (their data and systems) as active contributors in new policy creation. These “dos” and “don’ts” explore ways policymakers can create building level data regulations designed to engage utilities and ensure ongoing policy success, actionable data and a better building owner experience.
Building Performance Policies
Cities are deploying the next generation of building performance policies to maximize energy savings in buildings and meet their energy and environmental goals. In this webinar, leading cities deploying the next generation of building performance policies highlighted their strategies for policy design, implementation challenges and successes, and early policy impacts.
Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBs)
What if buildings could communicate with the electric grid to save money and reduce their environmental impacts? Sneha Ayyagari and Matt Jungclaus at RMI provide a must-read overview of the basics.
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We’re excited you’re here to learn more about Building Baselines™, a space connecting ideas to action in the evolving energy landscape.
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Building Baselines™ is a collaborative project from Calico Energy.