Maryland benchmarking, which is the first step of MD BEPS.
Most Maryland owners hear about this as BEPS. The obligation in front of you right now is the annual benchmarking report to MDE, and it is what your future BEPS position gets measured from.
Dates and thresholds change. We confirm the current requirement for your specific building before anyone acts on it.
Benchmarking, and why Maryland measures it differently.
Maryland runs on intensity metrics rather than the ENERGY STAR score. Your compliance position comes from weather-normalized site energy use intensity and direct greenhouse gas intensity, both of which are energy divided by floor area. That sounds like a technicality and it is not.
It changes what data actually matters. In a score-driven jurisdiction, the space-type questionnaire moves the number, so it has to be completed carefully. In Maryland, it largely does not. What moves the number is square footage and complete meter coverage, which is where we put the effort, and we will tell you when we are skipping a questionnaire and why.
It also changes the improvement conversation. Direct greenhouse gas intensity is a fuel question. A building that reduces energy use but keeps burning the same gas can find its position has barely moved, and that is worth knowing before capital is committed.
How we get you compliant
Same discipline as DC, tuned to what Maryland actually measures.
Notice-driven, and the notices are already going out.
MDE enforces through notices. If you are on the Covered Building List and have not filed, a Notice of Required Action may already have been issued, and that is a fixable situation rather than a crisis.
What we ask is that you send us the notice itself rather than a summary of it. There are six facts in that letter that determine the response, and the fastest path is usually procedural.
What an MDE letter usually means.
Maryland enforces benchmarking through notices, and they are already going out.
Send us the letterSend 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 Maryland owners call us
We benchmark across the Mid-Atlantic every cycle, and Maryland rules have moved twice in two years.
Maryland benchmarking questions
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The pages that usually matter next for a Maryland building.
Give us the address and the county.
We will confirm which program applies, what is outstanding, and what it takes to close it out.
Tell us what is on your plate. We will help you sort it out.
A notice, a deadline, a portfolio, or simply a question. You do not need to have it organized before you call.