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104 Calif. L. Rev. 1095 (2016)
Remaking Energy: The Critical Role of Energy Consumption Data

handle is hein.journals/calr104 and id is 1135 raw text is: Remaking Energy: The Critical Role of Energy Consumption Data Alexandra B. Klass* & Elizabeth J. Wilson** This Article explores the public policy benefits associated with increased access to energy consumption data as well as the legal and institutional barriers that currently prevent such access. As state and local governments as well as electricity users attempt to improve the efficiency of their buildings, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and realize the promises of improved demand side management of energy resources, the need for electricity and other energy-related data becomes even more pressing. But the current law that balances making energy consumption data available against any privacy or confidentiality interests in the data is underdeveloped. Thus, this Article draws on the more sophisticated legal frameworks governing health care, education, and environmental emissions data that balance. the public policy needs for data evaluation with countervailing interests. A review of the law in these fields shows that the privacy and confidentiality interests in energy consumption data may be overstated and, in any event, can be adequately addressed in most instances through aggregating the data, using historic rather than current data, or through contracts and other agreements to ensure security where access to individualized data is needed. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15779/Z38B55F Copyright © 2016 California Law Review, Inc. California Law Review, Inc. (CLR) is a California nonprofit corporation. CLR and the authors are solely responsible for the content of their publications. * Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota Law School. Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, 2015. We received extremely helpful comments from Brad Karkkainen, Bill McGeveran, Amy Monahan, Francis Shen, Brendon Slotterback, Chris Villarreal, and Steve Weissman on earlier drafts of this Article. Sam Andre and Andrew Heiring provided excellent research assistance. ** Professor, Energy and Environmental Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. 1095

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