St. Louis

An extension of the benchmarking submission date or an exemption from the benchmarking requirements to the owner of a covered property that submits a request, together with documentation in a form prescribed by the Commissioner's rule, at least thirty days prior to any benchmarking submission deadline, establishing any of the following criteria: 1) The property does not have a certificate of occupancy or temporary certificate of occupancy for all 12 months of the calendar year being benchmarked. 2) A demolition permit was issued during the prior calendar year, provided that demolition work has commenced and energy-related systems have been significantly compromised. 3) The covered property had average physical occupancy of less than 50 percent throughout the calendar year for which benchmarking is required. 4) The Commissioner determines that, due to special circumstances unique to the applicant's facility and not based on a condition caused by actions of the applicant, strict compliance with provisions of this ordinance would cause financial hardship or would not be in the public interest. 5) The property is primarily used for manufacturing or other industrial purposes for which benchmarking results would not meaningfully reflect covered property energy use characteristics due to the intensive use of process energy. 6) The owner is unable to benchmark due to the failure of either a utility or a tenant (or both) to report the information necessary for the owner to complete any benchmarking submittal requirement. 7) The property is primarily multifamily residential, it is not master metered, and the serving electric utility does not provide data aggregation services or access to whole-building utility data. Once such services are available from the utility, as determined by the director, such buildings will no longer be exempt from benchmarking requirements, and shall file initial benchmarking reports in the first required reporting year following such data availability.