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Energy benchmarking in Miami

Miami energy benchmarking, filed properly and on time.

If your building is covered, you owe an annual energy filing to the City of Miami. 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 Miami requires
Who is covered 20,000 sq ft and 5 units BE305 is a live mandate. The idea that Miami has no requirement is out of date.
Annual deadline June 30, annual Administered through the Touchstone IQ platform.
What is measured Energy and water Whole-building use reported to the city.
Filed with the City of Miami Administered through Touchstone IQ.

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.

There is no third-party verification requirement here today, which means the quality control on the record is ours to own rather than a regulator’s to catch.

Local detail that changes the answer
BE305 is live
A lot of the Miami market still believes there is no requirement. There is, and it applies from 20,000 sq ft and five units.
FPL data needs notarised authorisation
Aggregate utility data runs through a city pilot and requires notarised letters of authorisation, which adds lead time that should be planned rather than discovered.
No Florida preemption
There is no state preemption blocking the city mandate, which is another common misconception.
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How we get you compliant

The same sequence every time, tuned to what Miami 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
FPL aggregate data requires notarised letters of authorisation through a city pilot, so the notarisation is scheduled early rather than treated as paperwork at the end.
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 of Miami, confirmed received, and documented for your files.
5
Watch the trend
We review the trend between filings, because energy performance moves quietly and public disclosure does not wait.
If the filing is late

A live mandate that half the market still thinks does not exist.

BE305 is real and enforceable, and the persistent belief that Miami has no benchmarking requirement is the main reason buildings here are behind. There is also no Florida preemption blocking it.

The lead-time item is the notarised authorisation for FPL data. That is a scheduling task with a real signature requirement, and it is the reason Miami filings should start well before June.

Received a letter?

What a City of Miami notice usually means.

BE305 is live, and the letters are real.

Send us the letter
Covered building notification
The building meets the 20,000 sq ft and five unit test and the June 30 filing is due. The old belief that Miami has no requirement is out of date.
Non-compliance notice
The filing is missing. The practical lead-time item is the notarised authorisation FPL requires for aggregate data, so start there.

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 Miami to Honeydew

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

On the ground in Miami
We work in Miami as well as DC, Maryland and Virginia, so the advice comes from people who file here rather than a national help desk.
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

Miami benchmarking questions

Coverage here turns on floor area at 20,000 sq ft and above with five or more units. Send us the address and we will confirm it against the jurisdiction’s own records rather than estimating.

The annual deadline is June 30. The practical constraint is the notarised authorisation needed for FPL aggregate data, which is why Miami work starts earlier than the deadline suggests.

Yes. BE305 applies from 20,000 sq ft and five units, and there is no state preemption. If someone has told you otherwise, that advice is out of date.

Because FPL aggregate data runs through a city pilot that requires notarised letters of authorisation. We plan for that rather than discovering it in the final week.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a Miami building.

Everything we do here Full services in Miami 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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