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Energy benchmarking in Philadelphia

Philadelphia energy benchmarking, filed properly and on time.

If your building is covered, you owe an annual energy filing to the City of Philadelphia. 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 Philadelphia requires
Who is covered 50,000 sq ft and up Commercial and multifamily buildings at 50,000 sq ft and above. Pennsylvania has no statewide programme, so nothing stacks on top.
Annual deadline June 30, annual City deadline for the annual benchmarking filing.
What is measured Energy and water Whole-building use reported through Portfolio Manager to the city.
Filed with the City of Philadelphia Filed with the City of Philadelphia.

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
Two programmes, not one
Annual benchmarking is only half of it. The Building Energy Performance Programme runs a separate five-year tune-up cycle for non-residential buildings, and we check both every time.
Tune-up dates catch people
Larger non-residential buildings have tune-up reporting obligations on their own schedule, separate from the June 30 filing.
City only
Pennsylvania has no statewide mandate, so a Philadelphia filing is the whole obligation. That is simpler than most jurisdictions we work in.
The services behind this page

How we get you compliant

The same sequence every time, tuned to what Philadelphia 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
Utility authorizations and aggregate data for electric, gas and water where required. We ask for one landlord account number per utility.
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 Philadelphia, confirmed received, and documented for your files.
5
Watch the trend
Your position against the Building Energy Performance Programme comes out of this data, so we review the trend while there is still time to influence it.
If the filing is late

The tune-up cycle is where Philadelphia buildings get caught.

Most owners know about the June 30 benchmarking filing. Far fewer know that the Building Energy Performance Programme requires a periodic tune-up for non-residential buildings on a separate cycle, with its own reporting.

A building that has filed benchmarking faithfully for years can still be out of compliance on the tune-up side, which is why we screen both obligations at intake rather than assuming.

Received a letter?

What a Philadelphia notice usually means.

The city runs two programmes and the letter will be about one of them.

Send us the letter
Benchmarking non-compliance
The annual June 30 filing is missing or incomplete for the year named.
Building Energy Performance Programme notice
A tune-up is due or overdue for your cycle. Buildings with perfect benchmarking records receive these, because the obligations are separate.

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 Philadelphia 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

Philadelphia benchmarking questions

Coverage here turns on building type and floor area, with commercial and multifamily buildings at 50,000 sq ft and above covered. Send us the address and we will confirm it against the jurisdiction’s own records rather than estimating.

The annual benchmarking deadline is June 30. If you are late, file first and deal with the correspondence second, and check whether a tune-up obligation is also outstanding while you are in there.

Benchmarking is the annual data filing. The tune-up is a periodic operational requirement for non-residential buildings, with its own reporting and its own schedule. They are separate obligations and you can be compliant on one and not the other.

No. There is no statewide Pennsylvania mandate, so Philadelphia is the whole obligation for a city building.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a Philadelphia building.

Performance standard BEPS in Philadelphia The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is. Supply strategy Procurement in Philadelphia Where competitive supply is actually available, and where it is not. Everything we do here Full services in Philadelphia 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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