Commercial

Improve your bottom line.

Modern office buildings and retail establishments require tremendous amounts of utilities. They need to provide comfortable working conditions for employees, staff and customers—sometimes over extended hours. They also run office equipment and internal systems, while promoting the businesses they host.

Managing energy used to be about engineering and automated controls. But today’s market has demonstrated the importance of new solutions — including energy risk management to mitigate cost exposure and efficiency and sustainability to reduce emmissions.

Improve your property value

At Acclaim, we know that energy is the largest and most volatile component of operating costs for commercial real estate buildings in deregulated markets. So controlling your building’s energy costs is critically important to its financial performance and ultimately its market value.

By reducing consumption, improving operating efficiencies and controlling energy expenditures, you can reduce your property’s operating costs and improve its financial performance and market value. Lower energy operating costs can help a property increase tenant retention by reducing the need to raise lease rates.

Lowering the cost of retail space

Creating and maintaining attractive, appealing and comfortable shopping environments are critical to your business. The average cost for lighting, cooling and heating a 50,000-square-foot retail store in the United States has doubled since 1992. One way to reduce consumption is by switching to energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps and employing lighting controls. You can also upgrade HVAC systems, but few retailers can afford the newer, more energy-efficient equipment.

Retailers can also save on energy costs through supply contract administration and effective energy risk management. However, only the very largest retailers can afford the personnel with the background and experience needed to accomplish these tasks. That is, until now.

Acclaim provides clarity and strategy

Acclaim has a variety of solutions that help you gain control of your energy costs and usage. First, we establish a clean baseline to identify important usage and cost trends. Through our utility bill verification service, we can verify the accuracy of your past and current energy bills. Then we identify billing errors and take steps to recover any significant savings on money you have already spent.

The rise in energy prices and alternative fuels has made comprehensive energy management extremely important, but price volatility has made it  difficult. To effectively forecast and budget, you need control. And that’s where energy risk management comes in. Acclaim identifies the variables that affect your energy cost and simulates the many possible budget scenarios. We then develop an energy risk-management strategy balancing your company’s need for budget certainty with lower-price opportunities.

We shop for best price and terms

As part of your energy procurement strategy, Acclaim will help negotiate terms and conditions, oversee the transition to the new contract, and provide on-going verification to ensure accurate billing. You can easily monitor your energy usage and costs in POWERVIEWS™, our online system. With POWERVIEWS™, you can organize utility usage information any way you need it including by hierarchy of meters and your various locations.

Acclaim can also help address green initiatives. Our team is prepared to assist in the development of Leaders in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) programs and sustainable-design development efforts.