Frequently Asked Questions

On December 18, 2012, the New York State Public Service Commission revised the rules on how landlords sell electricity and offered consumer protections to submetered residents in a residential building (including condominiums, cooperatives and rental buildings).

An electric meter, or energy meter, is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed by a building, tenant space, or electrically powered equipment.

Continuous Commissioning, or Monitoring-based Commissioning, uses technology to mine savings from a stream of data from equipment and building systems.

Commercial real estate is a large and complex segment of real estate. Broadly defined, CRE refers to actively managed commercial real estate on an institutional scale.

Building operations consists of the activities necessary to operate, maintain, and manage buildings. This includes maintaining the HVAC systems, plumbing, electrical, and building system configuration.

Building diagnostics is the process of determining the causes and solutions to problems in buildings.

A building dashboard is a screen placed in a shared space in a building, usually the lobby, which displays the real-time energy performance of the building.