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Energy Star: User Consumption in Multi Tenant Buildings

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Mon, 10/11/2010 - 19:50

The energy inputs into Portfolio Manager must include 100% of all energy consumed by the building, whether for base building loads, tenant plug loads, etc. For multitenant buildings, it can be a little tricky accessing the information. Sometimes a building will have a main meter for the tenant electricity in addition to tenant submeters (you really just need to know overall consumption, so in this case you could just look at the main). In other buildings, there might only be a tenant-level meter and no building-level meter for electricity going to tenant spaces. In this case, the building owner has to ask all the tenants to share their information. Some US utilities will make it easy for the building owner by aggregating all the consumption from tenants within the building. So, I'd recommend starting first with the utility to see if they will provide the aggregated info, otherwise you may need to request utility info form each tenant individually.

Tue, 10/12/2010 - 06:53

Thanks for your reply, Jenny! Very often the tenants have their own contracts with different energy suppliers and no overall meters are present. So as you said, we will have to start asking the tenants to share their information.

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