Energy grade

The energy grade is the letter posted at a covered building's entrance, derived from its benchmarking submission — the efficiency score the federal framework computes from reported consumption, translated into a letter by the city's disclosure law. Covered buildings must post their grade where it can be seen; the obligation is disclosure, not performance.

The letter compresses a year of whole-building consumption into one symbol, so it is blunt by design: use intensity, occupancy, and building type all shape the score beneath it. Read it as an invitation to the underlying data — the reported metrics carry the analysis; the letter's job is to make someone ask for them.