A plan with dates on it
We file the benchmarking and plan each site’s upgrades by year.
Energize Denver, Building Performance Colorado and your board ask one question: how each building uses energy, and what changes when. We file the reports and build the plan that answers it.
Deadlines arrive before the plan
The City of Denver says Energize Denver applies to commercial and multifamily buildings of 5,000 square feet and larger. The Colorado Energy Office says Building Performance Colorado covers most commercial buildings of 50,000 square feet and larger, with benchmarking reports and fees due November 1 each year. A portfolio can owe both while equipment is still replaced one failure at a time.
What your filings and plan show
Filings on a calendar
A due date per building, data checked before it, and a dated filing record you keep.
One number per building
Each building’s EUI, and ENERGY STAR score where eligible, in a Portfolio Manager account you own.
Electrification peaks modeled
Heat pump and EV charger plans tested for their new electric peak before anything is ordered.
A board-ready plan
Five years of projects by site and year, with cost ranges and the requirement each one addresses.
Four ways to plan ahead
Benchmarking Filing
Portfolio Manager in your name, a year of meter data entered and checked, and the report filed.
Portfolio Energy Plan
A five-year plan: which building gets which project in which year, with demand and compliance effects.
Electrification screen
The new electric peak from replacing gas equipment, modeled on your interval data before design starts.
Board energy briefing
One page per building and a 45-minute readout for the board or finance committee.
What the advisory work covers
Energize Denver
Each Denver building sorted as small (5,000 to 24,999 square feet) or large, as the city defines them.
Building Performance Colorado
Buildings likely in scope identified, with reports and fees planned for the November 1 due date.
Portfolio Manager
Properties and meters set up in your account; a separate qualified verifier checks data where required.
Electrification and demand
Gas-to-electric swaps modeled for winter peaks and demand charges; equipment design stays with licensed engineers.
Multi-year capital plan
Projects sequenced over five years by site, cost range, compliance date and utility budget effect.
Board reporting
A yearly page per building: use, cost, filing status and next year’s planned project.
Example: a nonprofit with 11 health clinics
A health nonprofit runs 11 clinics in Denver and a 60,000-square-foot building in Aurora. Six Denver clinics are 5,000 square feet or larger, so each gets a Benchmarking Filing; the Aurora building likely falls under Building Performance Colorado. The Portfolio Energy Plan turns two boiler replacements into heat pump projects and sets one project a year through 2031.
Indicative price
Indicative, from$950
Per building per year for a Benchmarking Filing; a Portfolio Energy Plan is from $14,000 for up to 40 sites and five years; third-party verification fees for filings are extra. Every proposal is fixed-fee and itemized.
Advisory questions, answered
Can you tell us whether we are compliant?
No. We explain what the City of Denver and the Colorado Energy Office publish, file the reports you authorize and keep a dated record. Whether a building meets a requirement is the regulator’s decision, and legal questions belong with your counsel. We link the official page for each rule we cite.
Which of our buildings fall under Energize Denver?
The City of Denver says it applies to commercial and multifamily buildings in Denver of 5,000 square feet and larger, with different requirements for small buildings (5,000 to 24,999 square feet) and large ones (25,000 and up). We sort your list against those bands and the city’s current pages, and flag any building we cannot place.
What does Building Performance Colorado ask of us?
The Colorado Energy Office says it applies to most commercial buildings of 50,000 square feet and larger, with benchmarking reports and fees due November 1 each year. It supports state goals to cut commercial buildings sector emissions 7% by 2026 and 20% by 2030 from 2021 levels. We read the current rules for each covered building.
Who verifies the benchmarking data?
A qualified verifier who did not enter the data, as the city requires for Energize Denver. Our benchmarking specialists set up Portfolio Manager and enter the data; we then arrange a separate verifier, whose fee is quoted on its own line, so the two roles never sit with one person.
How does electrification change our utility bills?
It moves load from gas to electric, and the electric peak can rise, often in winter. A heat pump replacing a boiler may set a new 15-minute peak on the coldest morning and raise demand charges even as gas use falls. We model that peak on your interval data; a licensed engineer designs the system.
Why do you use ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager?
Because it is ENERGY STAR’s free benchmarking tool and a common record for building energy data. ENERGY STAR says nearly 25% of U.S. commercial building space is already actively benchmarking in it. We set it up in your name, so the account, the meters and the history stay with you if we part ways.
Bring us your building list
Tell us about your sites and we will say plainly whether clean energy advisory is the right place to start.