Recognizing that buildings are responsible for more than 60% of the City of Saint Paul’s emissions and that commercial buildings waste an estimated 30% of energy due to inefficiencies, the City of Saint Paul decided to adopt a benchmarking ordinance and develop the Energize Saint Paul program in order to provide technical support and educational resources to commercial and multifamily building owners. In this case study from Better Buildings, dive into how the City achieved success with energy and water use benchmarking as well as improving energy efficiency.