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Honeydew in Washington, DC

Everything we manage for a DC building.

Compliance is how most clients meet us. Procurement, solar screening and bill auditing are why they stay. In DC we can do all of it.

No obligation. We will tell you if you do not need us.
What we run in DC
Compliance Benchmarking, BEPS, verification Annual filings, cycle strategy, Completed Actions Report, GFA and data verification.
Electric supply Deregulated DC has retail choice for electricity, so we can competitively bid your supply.
Natural gas Deregulated Washington Gas delivers, supply can be bid competitively.
Advisory Ongoing Bill auditing, solar screening, capital planning support, and board presentations.

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

One partner across the whole picture.

A DC building over 50,000 sq ft is dealing with an annual benchmarking filing, a performance standard on a cycle, a verification requirement, a utility market it can shop, and a capital plan that has to satisfy a board. Handled separately, those five things generate five vendors who do not talk to each other.

We are the accountable partner across all of them. 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, and there are very few firms that do only this.

The practical benefit is that the data only gets built once. The same verified square footage and clean utility record that drives your BEPS position also drives your supply bid and your solar screening.

Where clients see the compounding
Supply and compliance together
The usage data we already hold for benchmarking is the data a supplier needs to price you. No second data collection.
Honest solar screening
We will tell you when solar is a good investment and when it is not, and we are clear that it does not move your BEPS position.
Bill auditing
Errors and wrong rate classes surface while we are already in the utility accounts.
The services behind this page

How we start

Compliance first, because it has a deadline. The rest follows on your schedule.

1
Position review
Coverage, score, gap to standard, verified square footage, and what is outstanding.
2
Compliance plan
Filings, pathway, verification, and the Completed Actions Report, on a calendar your board can follow.
3
Supply review
Current rate, contract end date, and whether shopping the supply makes sense right now.
4
Opportunity screening
Solar, incentives, bill errors, and efficiency measures that also help the compliance position.
5
Ongoing management
One point of contact, one set of numbers, and reminders that arrive before the deadline rather than after.
Why it matters here

DC has the deepest stack of obligations in the country.

Annual reporting, a cycle-based performance standard with published penalty math, verification requirements, and a settlement mechanism that rewards the owners who documented their work. Nothing about it is unmanageable, but very little of it is forgiving of a late start.

If you only take one thing from this page, take the documentation point. The record you build in 2026 is the record any later conversation with DOEE is based on.

Received a letter?

What a DOEE letter usually means.

Most DC correspondence is one of two things, and neither is a bill.

Send us the letter
Benchmarking notice or notice of violation
DOEE’s list says the building owed a filing that it has not received. Half the time the fix is procedural: the building is not covered, the square footage is wrong, or the filing landed under a different identifier.
BEPS correspondence
Cycle reminders, pathway confirmations and, eventually, a notice of infraction. DOEE has assessed no BEPS payments to date, and nothing is negotiable until it does, so the right response to a cycle letter is documentation, not panic.

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 DC

This is our home jurisdiction and our largest book of work.

Actually local
We are based in the DMV and sit in the stakeholder meetings where these rules get written, not on a national help desk.
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.
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 working with us in DC

No. Most clients start with the compliance obligation that has a date on it, then add procurement or advisory work when it makes sense. We would rather earn the second engagement than bundle it.

Both, and we are upfront about which hat we have on. Compliance work is fee-based. Supply procurement is compensated by the supplier, and we will show you the numbers either way.

Yes, and we do it constantly. Most of our clients are condo and co-op boards, and a clear thirty-minute presentation is often what unlocks a decision.

Yes, twenty-six jurisdictions, and portfolio consistency across them is part of the value. The Regions page has the full list.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a DC building.

Annual filing Benchmarking in DC The annual filing, what is reported, and how we keep the record clean. Performance standard BEPS in DC The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is. Third-party Verification in DC Third-party data verification and the square footage work that moves every number.
What is BEPS? All Honeydew services Every region we serve Latest rule changes on the blog

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