Energy benchmarking compliance. DPI shall administer the energy benchmarking requirements, and noncompliance either due to failure to begin the process of energy benchmarking by the date provided or failure to provide data to DPI under subsection (a) of this section by a covered building is subject to a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) per violation. Each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. DPI may grant a delay in the requirements of energy benchmarking under subsection (a) of this section by up to six (6) months if a covered building faces unique circumstances and an undue burden in seeking to comply.(d) Covered buildings shall not be constructed after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this article that cannot measure the thermal usage of the building by metering or other effective alternative measure. Institutions with buildings without direct metering shall provide an inventory of those buildings to the department of permitting and inspections and the Burlington electric department within six (6) months of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this article, with such inventory to include the location of the building, the square footage of the building, the general usage(s) of the building, and a description of the centrally connected thermal system of which it is a part.
(Ord. of 12-16-24)