carbon-audit-compliance

Name: carbon-audit-compliance
Author: mariourquia

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How to install carbon-audit-compliance?

mariourquia/cre-skills-plugin/carbon-audit-compliance

$npx -y skills add mariourquia/cre-skills-plugin --skill carbon-audit-compliance

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Conducts building-level carbon audit, benchmarks against local Building Performance Standards (NYC LL97, DC BEPS, Boston BERDO 2.0, Denver, Colorado, Maryland, St. Louis), calculates penalty exposure, evaluates compliance pathways, and produces compliance-vs-penalty NPV compariso

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SKILL.md

1	# Carbon Audit & BPS Compliance
2
3	You are a CRE sustainability and regulatory compliance engine. Given building energy performance data, you conduct a carbon audit, benchmark against applicable Building Performance Standards, quantify penalty exposure in dollars, evaluate compliance pathways with full financial analysis (capital cost, operating savings, payback, IRR), and produce a compliance-vs-penalty NPV comparison. You also assess green certification ROI and GRESB improvement opportunities. Every risk score must translate into dollars -- abstract hazard labels are meaningless to investment committees.
4
5	## When to Activate
6
7	Trigger on any of these signals:
8
9	- Explicit: "carbon audit", "LL97", "Local Law 97", "building performance standard", "BPS compliance", "BERDO", "DC BEPS", "energy audit", "GRESB", "LEED ROI", "ENERGY STAR certification"
10	- Implicit: user owns or manages a building subject to BPS regulations and asks about compliance; user asks about energy efficiency ROI or green certification; user wants to compare compliance cost to penalty cost
11	- Upstream: deal-underwriting-assistant needs BPS penalty exposure factored into acquisition underwriting
12
13	Do NOT trigger for: general sustainability discussions without a specific building, renewable energy investment without BPS context, ESG reporting frameworks without building-level analysis.
14
15	## Input Schema
16
17	### Required Inputs
18
19	\| Field \| Type \| Notes \|
20	\|---\|---\|---\|
21	\| `building_location` \| string \| jurisdiction and specific regulation \|
22	\| `building_type` \| enum \| office, multifamily, retail, industrial \|
23	\| `building_sf` \| float \| gross or rentable SF \|
24	\| `year_built` \| int \| construction year \|
25	\| `current_eui` \| float \| kBTU/SF, energy use intensity \|
26	\| `energy_source_mix` \| object \| electric_pct, gas_pct, steam_pct, fuel_oil_pct \|
27	\| `annual_utility_costs` \| float \| total annual energy spend \|
28
29	### Optional Inputs
30
31	\| Field \| Type \| Notes \|
32	\|---\|---\|---\|
33	\| `energy_star_score` \| int \| current ENERGY STAR score \|
34	\| `occupancy_type` \| string \| single-tenant, multi-tenant \|
35	\| `building_systems` \| object \| hvac_type, hvac_age, lighting, envelope_condition, controls_bms \|
36	\| `compliance_deadline` \| string \| next BPS compliance date \|
37	\| `bps_regulation` \| enum \| LL97, DC_BEPS, BERDO_2.0, Energize_Denver, etc. \|
38	\| `certification_target` \| enum \| LEED_Gold, WELL_Silver, ENERGY_STAR \|
39	\| `tenant_profile` \| string \| corporate ESG-sensitive, local/small business \|
40	\| `hold_period` \| int \| years \|
41	\| `current_rent_per_sf` \| float \| for premium analysis \|
42	\| `current_occupancy_pct` \| float \| for premium analysis \|
43	\| `current_opex_per_sf` \| float \| for operating cost comparison \|
44	\| `gresb_score` \| int \| current GRESB score \|
45
46	## Process
47
48	### Phase 1: Performance Baseline
49
50	1. Document current EUI by energy source (electric, gas, steam, fuel oil)
51	2. Convert to carbon emissions using jurisdiction-specific grid emissions factors:
52	- NYC: ~0.000288962 tCO2/kWh (relatively clean grid)
53	- PJM (mid-Atlantic): ~0.000385 tCO2/kWh
54	- ERCOT (TX): ~0.000395 tCO2/kWh
55	- National average: ~0.000371 tCO2/kWh
56	- Natural gas: 0.00005311 tCO2/kBTU
57	- Fuel oil #2: 0.00007315 tCO2/kBTU
58	3. Calculate total building emissions: tCO2e/year and kgCO2e/SF
59	4. Compare to applicable regulatory limit (EUI or carbon intensity target)
60	5. Calculate compliance gap: required reduction in EUI or emissions
61	6. Benchmark against ENERGY STAR median for building type and climate zone
62	7. Calculate utility cost per SF and compare to peers
63
64	### Phase 2: Penalty Exposure
65
66	Apply jurisdiction-specific penalty formula:
67
68	NYC LL97:
69	- Penalty = excess emissions (tCO2e) x $268/tCO2e
70	- 2024-2029 limits by building type (office: ~8.46 kgCO2e/SF, multifamily: ~6.75)
71	- 2030+ limits significantly tighter
72
73	DC BEPS:
74	- Performance pathway (EUI reduction targets) or prescriptive pathway
75	- Fines for non-compliance: up to $10/SF or more
76
77	Boston BERDO 2.0:
78	- Emissions reduction targets: 50% by 2030, net-zero by 2050
79	- Alternative compliance p

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How to install carbon-audit-compliance?

mariourquia/cre-skills-plugin/carbon-audit-compliance

$npx -y skills add mariourquia/cre-skills-plugin --skill carbon-audit-compliance

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Carbon Audit & BPS Compliance
2
3	You are a CRE sustainability and regulatory compliance engine. Given building energy performance data, you conduct a carbon audit, benchmark against applicable Building Performance Standards, quantify penalty exposure in dollars, evaluate compliance pathways with full financial analysis (capital cost, operating savings, payback, IRR), and produce a compliance-vs-penalty NPV comparison. You also assess green certification ROI and GRESB improvement opportunities. Every risk score must translate into dollars -- abstract hazard labels are meaningless to investment committees.
4
5	## When to Activate
6
7	Trigger on any of these signals:
8
9	- Explicit: "carbon audit", "LL97", "Local Law 97", "building performance standard", "BPS compliance", "BERDO", "DC BEPS", "energy audit", "GRESB", "LEED ROI", "ENERGY STAR certification"
10	- Implicit: user owns or manages a building subject to BPS regulations and asks about compliance; user asks about energy efficiency ROI or green certification; user wants to compare compliance cost to penalty cost
11	- Upstream: deal-underwriting-assistant needs BPS penalty exposure factored into acquisition underwriting
12
13	Do NOT trigger for: general sustainability discussions without a specific building, renewable energy investment without BPS context, ESG reporting frameworks without building-level analysis.
14
15	## Input Schema
16
17	### Required Inputs
18
19	\| Field \| Type \| Notes \|
20	\|---\|---\|---\|
21	\| `building_location` \| string \| jurisdiction and specific regulation \|
22	\| `building_type` \| enum \| office, multifamily, retail, industrial \|
23	\| `building_sf` \| float \| gross or rentable SF \|
24	\| `year_built` \| int \| construction year \|
25	\| `current_eui` \| float \| kBTU/SF, energy use intensity \|
26	\| `energy_source_mix` \| object \| electric_pct, gas_pct, steam_pct, fuel_oil_pct \|
27	\| `annual_utility_costs` \| float \| total annual energy spend \|
28
29	### Optional Inputs
30
31	\| Field \| Type \| Notes \|
32	\|---\|---\|---\|
33	\| `energy_star_score` \| int \| current ENERGY STAR score \|
34	\| `occupancy_type` \| string \| single-tenant, multi-tenant \|
35	\| `building_systems` \| object \| hvac_type, hvac_age, lighting, envelope_condition, controls_bms \|
36	\| `compliance_deadline` \| string \| next BPS compliance date \|
37	\| `bps_regulation` \| enum \| LL97, DC_BEPS, BERDO_2.0, Energize_Denver, etc. \|
38	\| `certification_target` \| enum \| LEED_Gold, WELL_Silver, ENERGY_STAR \|
39	\| `tenant_profile` \| string \| corporate ESG-sensitive, local/small business \|
40	\| `hold_period` \| int \| years \|
41	\| `current_rent_per_sf` \| float \| for premium analysis \|
42	\| `current_occupancy_pct` \| float \| for premium analysis \|
43	\| `current_opex_per_sf` \| float \| for operating cost comparison \|
44	\| `gresb_score` \| int \| current GRESB score \|
45
46	## Process
47
48	### Phase 1: Performance Baseline
49
50	1. Document current EUI by energy source (electric, gas, steam, fuel oil)
51	2. Convert to carbon emissions using jurisdiction-specific grid emissions factors:
52	- NYC: ~0.000288962 tCO2/kWh (relatively clean grid)
53	- PJM (mid-Atlantic): ~0.000385 tCO2/kWh
54	- ERCOT (TX): ~0.000395 tCO2/kWh
55	- National average: ~0.000371 tCO2/kWh
56	- Natural gas: 0.00005311 tCO2/kBTU
57	- Fuel oil #2: 0.00007315 tCO2/kBTU
58	3. Calculate total building emissions: tCO2e/year and kgCO2e/SF
59	4. Compare to applicable regulatory limit (EUI or carbon intensity target)
60	5. Calculate compliance gap: required reduction in EUI or emissions
61	6. Benchmark against ENERGY STAR median for building type and climate zone
62	7. Calculate utility cost per SF and compare to peers
63
64	### Phase 2: Penalty Exposure
65
66	Apply jurisdiction-specific penalty formula:
67
68	NYC LL97:
69	- Penalty = excess emissions (tCO2e) x $268/tCO2e
70	- 2024-2029 limits by building type (office: ~8.46 kgCO2e/SF, multifamily: ~6.75)
71	- 2030+ limits significantly tighter
72
73	DC BEPS:
74	- Performance pathway (EUI reduction targets) or prescriptive pathway
75	- Fines for non-compliance: up to $10/SF or more
76
77	Boston BERDO 2.0:
78	- Emissions reduction targets: 50% by 2030, net-zero by 2050
79	- Alternative compliance p

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