by Denise Deverelle | Mar 29, 2019 | conservation, energy efficiency, multifamily management, submeters
Let’s say you have a multifamily property and one water meter for the building. Residents pay their own gas and electric, but you pay the water bill and have always just factored water in when you calculate your rental rates. The water bill keeps getting higher, but...
by Denise Deverelle | Mar 26, 2019 | conservation, energy efficiency, multifamily management
California is leading the way on utility benchmarking in an effort to understand and enforce conservation. Assembly Bill 802 directed the California Energy Commission to create a statewide utility benchmark for buildings larger than 50,000 square feet. The...
by Denise Deverelle | Mar 18, 2019 | energy efficiency, multifamily management, submetering, submeters
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t think their utility expenses are too high. I recently examined my own utility bills and discovered I pay, as a single person, an average of $335 per month for electricity, gas, water, and trash/sewer. I started to really think about...
by Denise Deverelle | Feb 18, 2019 | energy efficiency
As a nation, we’ve been doing well with energy savings, but a proposal made earlier this month by the Department of Energy suggests a possible rollback of energy conservation requirements. It is currently open for public debate. As a multifamily property owner,...
by Denise Deverelle | Feb 1, 2019 | conservation, energy efficiency, multifamily management, rental trends
If you haven’t heard by now, Generation Z makes up 25% of the U.S. population. That means a quarter of the U.S. was born in the mid-nineties to early 2000’s. Gen-Z is unique; they are full of ideas, higher conscious levels and essentially want to save the world. One...
by Multifamily Utility Company | Apr 2, 2018 | conservation, energy efficiency
Spring is officially here, which means the temperature is going up. This is typically the time that your tenants will want to start cranking their air conditioners on. And although this will keep the temperature down, it’ll push their electric bill up. So what is the...
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