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San Francisco Municipal Energy Benchmarking

Metadata Updated: March 22, 2026

This dataset will replace the previous version of this dataset, which will no longer be updated.

A. SUMMARY San Francisco’s Existing Buildings Energy Performance Ordinance requires owners of non-residential buildings over 10,000 square feet to annually benchmark and disclose energy performance. On behalf of City agencies, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) benchmarks and reports energy use for a portfolio of approximately 500 public facilities buildings. The performance of public facilities can be examined in an interactive report at https://bit.ly/SFMunicipalBenchmarking, and annual reports from 2011-present are available there as well.

This dataset presents the energy performance and basic characteristics for public facilities that is visualized by the SFPUC’s interactive report.

In addition, energy performance data for non-municipal buildings (i.e. commercial buildings of 10,000 square feet or larger, and multifamily & mixed-use buildings of 50,000 square feet or larger) is available at: https://bit.ly/ExistingBuildingsReport

B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED In compliance with California Energy Benchmarking Regulations (CA Public Resources Code Section 25402.10 and CCR Title 20 Section 1680), and San Francisco Existing Buildings Energy Ordinance (Environment Code Chapter 20), the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission provides energy benchmarking services on behalf of municipal facilities. Details for public facilities are compiled from city records, and energy usage is compiled from utility records; related metrics such as energy use intensity are calculated from the combination of such records. Data is subjected to quality assurance validation prior to publication. For additional information regarding data sources and assumptions, please review the "Data Sources and Assumptions" page of the Municipal Facilities Energy Benchmarking dashboard: https://bit.ly/SFMunicipalBenchmarking.

C. UPDATE PROCESS Updated Annually, but any adjustments may be made throughout the year.

E. RELATED DATASETS Existing Buildings Energy Performance Ordinance Report

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date March 22, 2026
Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from SFO JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date March 22, 2026
Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2026
Publisher data.sfgov.org
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.sfgov.org/api/views/bfhx-j6n5
Data First Published 2026-03-19
Data Last Modified 2026-03-20
Category Energy and Environment
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.sfgov.org/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 1257911e-08ce-49a8-bf37-2cbcf1d9f23b
Harvest Source Id 8507fa43-f429-4095-b732-2177330ce485
Harvest Source Title SFO JSON
Homepage URL https://data.sfgov.org/d/bfhx-j6n5
License http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 66df8e4906b57385e49f8d7e00b4a3367627492844856f5bd0e07c06ffcb6c55
Source Schema Version 1.1

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