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Energy benchmarking in Denver

Denver energy benchmarking, filed properly and on time.

If your building is covered, you owe an annual energy filing to the City and County of Denver. We collect the utility data, build the record, and file it, and we tell you early if the building was never covered at all.

No obligation. We will tell you if you do not need us.
What Denver requires
Who is covered 25,000 sq ft and up Energize Denver runs under the Denver Revised Municipal Code, stacked on top of the Colorado state programme.
Annual deadline June 1, annual The 2026 benchmarking and third-party verification deadlines have already passed. Approved extensions carry a hard published date.
What is measured Energy Performance targets with 2028 and 2032 as the milestones most buildings are actually working toward.
Filed with the City and County of Denver Filed to the city, and separately to the state programme.

Dates and thresholds change. We confirm the current requirement for your specific building before anyone acts on it.

What the filing is, and what makes it hold up.

Benchmarking is a measurement exercise. Once a year you report whole-building energy use, floor area, and how the space is used. It does not by itself require you to change anything about the building.

What it does is set the number every later obligation runs on, from your performance position to the questions lenders and appraisers ask. A filing made with the wrong square footage or a missing meter quietly becomes a compliance problem a year or two later.

In Denver the record also has to survive somebody else reading it, because third-party verification applies here. That raises the bar on documentation rather than on effort.

Local detail that changes the answer
2026 deadlines have passed
Both benchmarking and verification for 2026 are behind us. Denver buildings need triage rather than a calendar entry.
Deemed compliance is narrow
It covers the state performance standard only. Two filings and the state fee still apply.
An association regime exists
Condominiums and homeowner associations have an alternate compliance option path with a reserves test, which is worth analysing properly.
The services behind this page

How we get you compliant

The same sequence every time, tuned to what Denver actually asks for.

1
Confirm coverage
Threshold, building definition, and whether the property is genuinely covered. Occasionally the answer is that it never was, and we say so.
2
Get the data flowing
Aggregate utility data for all fuels, structured to serve both the city filing and the state programme without duplicate work.
3
Build the record
Property setup with verified floor area and complete meter coverage, structured so next year is easier than this year.
4
File and confirm
Submitted to the City and County of Denver, confirmed received, and documented for your files.
5
Watch the trend
Your position against Energize Denver comes out of this data, so we review the trend while there is still time to influence it.
If the filing is late

Two filings, one fee, and deadlines already behind us.

Denver buildings that assumed deemed compliance covered everything are frequently missing a benchmarking filing and a state fee, and the 2026 verification date has already gone.

That makes Denver a triage market this year rather than a planning one. The first call establishes what is actually outstanding and whether an extension applies.

Received a letter?

What an Energize Denver letter usually means.

Denver is a triage market this year, and the letter usually confirms it.

Send us the letter
Benchmarking or verification non-compliance
The June 1, 2026 deadlines have passed. If an extension was approved, it carries a hard published date rather than an open window.
Performance standard correspondence
About your 2028 and 2032 targets, or the alternate compliance options for associations. Deemed compliance covers the state performance standard only.

Send us the letter itself, not a summary. We read it for the six things that decide the response: who sent it, which building and identifier it names, what period it covers, what it says you failed to do, the cure date, and whether it is a first notice or an escalation. We never quote a running penalty total, and we cure first, then talk to the regulator.

Why owners hand Denver to Honeydew

We file across twenty-six jurisdictions and track the rule changes in each one rather than working from last year’s version.

We read the primary sources
Twenty-six jurisdictions, each with its own portal, deadline and enforcement style. We work from the ordinance, the regulator’s FAQ and the covered building list, not from last year’s memory.
Credentialed
Certified Energy Manager on staff, Portfolio Manager specialists, and the credentials the verification work requires.
Built for boards
Most of our clients are condo and co-op boards and the managers who serve them. We present in plain English, on your meeting schedule.
One accountable partner
We are not engineers and we do not pretend to be. We manage the process, coordinate the right vendors, and own the outcome.
Owners and managers we work with
FirstService Residential Legum & Norman EJF Real Estate Services Comsource Management Barkan Management Howard University Regency Centers Montgomery County Green Bank

Denver benchmarking questions

Coverage here turns on floor area from 25,000 sq ft under the city ordinance, alongside the separate state programme threshold. Send us the address and we will confirm it against the jurisdiction’s own records rather than estimating.

The annual date is June 1, and the 2026 benchmarking and verification deadlines have already passed. Where an extension was approved there is a hard published date rather than an open window, so the first step is establishing which situation you are in.

Yes. Benchmarking files to both, and the state fee remains due regardless of your Denver position.

That is the right conversation, and 2028 and 2032 are the dates to plan against. For associations there is also an alternate compliance regime worth analysing before assuming the standard path applies.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a Denver building.

Performance standard BEPS in Denver The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is. Third-party Verification in Denver Third-party data verification and the square footage work that moves every number. Everything we do here Full services in Denver Everything Honeydew manages here, compliance and energy services together.
What is BEPS? All Honeydew services Every region we serve Latest rule changes on the blog

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