If you own or manage a commercial building in the United States, there’s a good chance you’re now legally required to benchmark your energy performance—and the…
Your commercial building consumes energy every minute of every day. But during a handful of critical peak hours each summer, that same energy consumption become…
If you manage a commercial building, you’ve probably been quoted wildly different prices for an energy audit — anywhere from a few thousand dollars to six figur…
Pull out your last commercial electric bill. Find the line item called “demand charge” — it might also be labeled “demand cost,” “capacity charge,” or “peak dem…
A facility manager in Denver recently told me something that captures the ESG reporting challenge perfectly: “I spent three weeks pulling together our emissions…
A single Level 2 EV charger in the parking garage of an apartment building draws roughly 7.2 to 9.6 kW — the same as running two central air conditioners simult…
In March 2025, a property management firm in Chicago received the February electricity bill for a 180,000-square-foot office building they operated. The bill sh…
In a 120,000-square-foot medical office complex outside of Charlotte, the facilities team spent three years allocating utility costs to tenants using a simple p…
A Florida campground with a $70,000 annual electricity bill was only recovering $17,500 from guests. Even after accounting for 15% common area usage, that left…
A facility manager at a 120,000-square-foot medical office complex in Dallas paid $12,500 for an ASHRAE Level 2 energy audit in 2024. The audit identified $47,0…