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Beyond Benchmarking in San Jose

San Jose, where the exemption deadline lands before the filing.

Annual reporting is due May 1 and exemptions are due April 1. Beyond Benchmarking adds a five-year requirement on top.

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Beyond Benchmarking at a glance

Reporting May 1, annual Filed through the city platform.

Exemptions April 1 A month earlier than the filing. Miss it and the exemption route closes for the year.

Beyond Benchmarking Every five years An additional periodic requirement beyond the annual report.

Utility PG&E both fuels A single attestation gate for the whole property.

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

What the standard actually asks of a building.

San Jose is straightforward except for one scheduling quirk that costs owners real money: the exemption deadline falls a month before the filing deadline. If you plan backwards from May 1 you have already missed the April 1 exemption window.

Beyond Benchmarking is the second half of the programme, a five-year requirement layered on the annual report. It needs to be in the calendar rather than discovered in its due year.

Both fuels are PG&E here, so the attestation gates the entire property with no partial-fuel start. That makes authorisation the first task on any San Jose engagement.

What decides your outcome

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

Energy compliance advisory BEPS reporting and documentation Energy audits Incentive advisory Energy benchmarking

How we get you to the standard

Establish the position, choose the route, then document the work.

Establish the real position

Verified floor area, clean data, and the gap to the standard expressed in the terms the programme actually uses.

Model the options

Exemption eligibility assessed before April 1, and Beyond Benchmarking scope planned against your five-year date.

Sequence the work

Measures ordered against your capital plan and your board calendar, with incentives factored in rather than left on the table.

Document as you go

Every measure, invoice and audit recommendation captured while it is happening. Reconstructing this later is the expensive way.

File and follow through

Annual report filed by May 1, with any exemption filed by April 1 and the periodic requirement tracked.

The exposure, honestly

The exemption window closes before most people start.

An owner who begins thinking about San Jose compliance in April has already lost the exemption route for that year. That is the single most common avoidable loss in this jurisdiction.

The rest is manageable, provided the PG&E authorisation is in place early enough to leave time for the data.

What Honeydew handles

Performance position and gap analysis Compliance pathway modelling Reporting and documentation Energy audit scoping and review Incentive advisory Agency correspondence

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 boards bring us in

Performance standards are where the money is, and where bad advice is most expensive.

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.

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.

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

Questions about Beyond Benchmarking

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. Everything we do here Full services in San Jose 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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