Skip to content

RE+ City Cohort Action Guide

Efficiency Standards for Rental

Phase 3: Administer

This phase provides information and resources for administering a rental efficiency standards program after a policy has been passed. Depending on the amount of implementation details included in the policy at the time of a city’s approval, an implementation plan may be included in the policy or may need to be worked out after the launch. In this phase you will:​

  • Put in place a compliance and disclosure framework that allows rental units’ energy scores to be shared on rental websites.​
  • Ensure that the monitoring and evaluation process tracks the ongoing progress of the policy. It can be useful to also communicate lessons learned with other cities and share best practices.

Please contact us at cities@rmi.org for updates on this policy or to be added to the Map of Cities that have implemented the policy.

Help build the clean energy future. Donate today.

Independent research. Real-world solutions. Supported by donors.

RMI can pursue the highest-impact climate and energy solutions because we’re supported by people who believe change is possible. Every gift helps advance the work needed to make clean energy the default choice worldwide.

And right now, your impact goes twice as far. Thanks to generous donors and our special match, every $1 you give becomes $2, up to $150,000, through December 31, 2026.