Owners of Salt Lake City’s largest buildings — or many of them, anyway — will have to report their energy usage.
The City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday that city officials believe will cut energy costs and reduce air pollution, even if it’s not all they had once hoped for.
The new ordinance requires owners of commercial buildings larger than 25,000 square feet to provide the city with an annual measure of their energy usage — a step toward the city’s goals of using 100 percent renewable electricity by 2032 and reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2040.