%0 Conference Paper
%A Satkartar Kinney
%A Mary Ann Piette
%B 2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
%C Pacific Grove, CA
%D 2002
%G eng
%L LBNL-50676
%P 7.109-7.120
%T Development of a California Commercial Building Benchmarking Database
%2 LBNL-50676
%3 <p>80FJ21</p>
%4 <p>August 18-23, 2002</p>
%# <p>LC</p>
%$ <p>Commercial Building Systems</p>
%] <p>y</p>
%8 05/2002
%X <p>Building energy benchmarking is a useful starting point for commercial building owners and operators to target energy savings opportunities. There are a number of tools and methods for benchmarking energy use. Benchmarking based on regional data can provides more relevant information for California buildings than national tools such as Energy Star.</p><p>This paper discusses issues related to benchmarking commercial building energy use and the development of Cal-Arch, a building energy benchmarking database for California. Currently Cal-Arch uses existing survey data from California's Commercial End Use Survey (CEUS), a largely underutilized wealth of information collected by California's major utilities. DOE's Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) is used by a similar tool, Arch, and by a number of other benchmarking tools. Future versions of Arch/Cal-Arch will utilize additional data sources including modeled data and individual buildings to expand the database.</p>