Towards achieving data governance for improving energy efficiency: A Protocols and Procedures Guide for owners of large building stocks.

This report provides recommendations on the data governance of the organisation archetypes defined in D3.2. The three types of organisations were the Basic level (renamed as Passive organisations), Middle level (re-named as Active energy management organisations) and Advanced level (re-named as Advanced energy management organisation). All three were differentiated by how they tackled the data and how the data informed their future planning. The recommendations presented here are based on the different organisations defined and the experience and requests obtained during the preparation of the previous reports. The aim of this work is to establish a framework within which a wide range of institutions can locate a representative or similar situation to their own and thus be able to extract relevant guidance to help them adapt their databases to meet their any future needs.

Following a brief background and introduction, the report summarises all the data types and information sources in a table. The table organised in terms of information types, identified sources for each information type, common tools used to manage the information.

The information sources analysed in the context of building owners are: energy consumption, energy cost, building properties, energy audits and EPCs, and energy efficiency measures. The table has been designed to make it easy for any reader to find the information types they’re interested in and offer guidance on how this information can best be organised, managed and exploited.

The main section of the report focuses on providing key recommendations for all organisation types on how to improve their data governance and ease future transformations of their data management practices. The main focus is on their energy, building and financial data to help with building management and decision making. The recommendations defined are tailored to the experiences and needs of each archetype of organisations, addressing more specific needs at the higher tiers.