Improving Portfolio-Wide Energy Oversight Through Active Monitoring

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Merritt Companies

With over 19 million square feet under management, Merritt Properties partnered with MD Energy Advisors to streamline energy performance tracking across their portfolio. By organizing and analyzing energy data and actively monitoring usage, MDEA enabled early improvements in efficiency and empowered more informed energy management decisions.

Opportunity

With over 19 million square feet of commercial real estate throughout Maryland, North Carolina, Florida and Virginia, Merritt Properties serves every type of business. Merritt Properties identified a need to better monitor the energy performance of buildings across their portfolio.

Our Solution

Our Energy Advisors worked with Merritt Properties to gather, organize and analyze energy data to prioritize their energy efforts. By having our Energy Advisors actively monitor and report the energy performance of each building, our Energy Advisors has realized some short-term success already in the first few months of monitoring.

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