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Everything we manage for a San Jose building.

Compliance is how most clients meet us. Verification, supply where the market allows it, solar screening and bill auditing are why they stay.

No obligation. We will tell you if you do not need us.
What we run in San Jose
Compliance Benchmarking and Beyond Benchmarking 20,000 sq ft and up, filed with the City of San Jose.
Deadline May 1, annual Exemptions are due April 1, a month before the filing itself, which catches people out.
Verification Not required today We still verify floor area, because every metric here is per square foot.
Energy supply Regulated market No retail choice here, so the savings work is efficiency, incentives and bill auditing.

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

How the pieces fit together in San Jose.

A covered building in San Jose is dealing with an annual filing, a set of local rules that change more often than anyone expects, and a capital plan that has to satisfy an owner or a board. Handled separately, those generate vendors who do not talk to each other.

We are the accountable partner across all of it. We are not engineers and we do not pretend to be. We make sense of the rules, verify the data, bring in the right specialists, and give the building a plan it can act on.

The practical benefit is that the data gets built once. The same verified floor area and clean utility record that drives your compliance position also drives a supply bid, an incentive application, or a solar screening.

Local detail that changes the answer
Exemptions close April 1
A month before the filing deadline. Planning backwards from May 1 means the exemption route is already gone.
PG&E gates both fuels
One attestation for the whole property, with no partial-fuel start.
Campus splits are available
Separate building identifiers are assigned on request, which matters for correctly structuring a campus.
The services behind this page

How we start

Deadline work first. Everything else on your schedule.

1
Position review
Coverage, current data, floor area, and what is outstanding.
2
Close the compliance gap
Filings, verification where it applies, and any notice response.
3
Review energy supply and procurement
No retail choice here, so we review rate class, tariff fit and billing errors instead.
4
Screen the opportunities
Incentives, solar, audits, and measures that also improve the compliance position.
5
Manage it forward
One point of contact, one set of numbers, and reminders that arrive before the deadline.
Why now

One early deadline decides your options for the whole year.

San Jose exemptions close on April 1, a month before the report is due. That ordering is counterintuitive and it is where owners lose the ability to reduce scope legitimately.

Everything else here is routine, provided the PG&E authorisation was started early enough.

Received a letter?

What a San Jose notice usually means.

The dates in a San Jose letter are the point.

Send us the letter
Benchmarking notification
The May 1 report is due or missing. Exemptions closed on April 1, a month earlier.
Beyond Benchmarking notice
The five-year requirement is due for your building. It is separate from the annual report.

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 Honeydew in San Jose

One relationship across twenty-six jurisdictions, with local rules tracked rather than assumed.

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.
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.
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

Questions about each of these services

With whatever has a date on it. Usually that is the filing or the standard, and the supply and advisory work follows once the compliance position is clean. We would rather earn the second engagement than bundle it.

Yes, and we do it constantly. A clear thirty-minute presentation is often what unlocks a decision.

Yes. A San Jose filing satisfies the California state programme.

Possibly, and San Jose assigns separate building identifiers on request. Whether splitting helps depends on the sizes involved, and we model it before asking.

By April 1, a month before the reporting deadline. If that date passes, the exemption route is closed for the year even if you would have qualified.

A periodic five-year requirement layered on top of the annual report. It is separate, and it needs its own calendar entry.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a San Jose building.

Annual filing Benchmarking in San Jose The annual filing, what is reported, and how we keep the record clean. Performance standard BEPS in San Jose The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is.
What is BEPS? All Honeydew services Every region we serve Latest rule changes on the blog

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