Electricity is one of the largest controllable expenses on your operating statement. We structure contracts across the ERCOT market for office buildings and property portfolios — common-area, master, and tenant meters matched to your lease structure and budget cycle.
Get A Free QuoteTexas office buildings carry an electricity cost profile shaped by the workday: HVAC systems account for more than 30 percent of consumption, lighting roughly 17 percent, and plug loads — computers, servers, kitchen equipment — another 25 percent and climbing. That load concentrates in weekday business hours, the same window when ERCOT wholesale prices peak, which is why office buildings often run worse load factors than facilities that operate around the clock. Energy typically represents about 19 percent of a typical office building's total expenditures — roughly a third of non-fixed operating costs — and how that cost lands depends on your lease structure. Under a gross lease, every dollar saved on supply flows straight to NOI. Under a triple-net structure, lower pass-throughs make your CAM reconciliations easier to defend and your renewals easier to win. Either way, the common-area and house meters — lobbies, elevators, garage lighting, central plant — are always the landlord's responsibility, and buildings that let those accounts roll over onto default renewal rates routinely pay 1 to 2 cents per kWh above the competitive market. Elite Energy Consultants shops 25+ licensed Texas REPs on your behalf, at no fee to you, and structures contract terms around your meters, your lease cycle, and your budget year.
We start with the meters you control: lobbies, elevators, corridors, parking and garage lighting, and central HVAC plant. Whether your building runs a single master meter or a dozen landlord accounts across a portfolio, we aggregate them into one procurement event so suppliers price your full load — not one account at a time.
An office building's demand charge is set by its single highest 15-minute draw of the month — often the simultaneous morning HVAC start across floors. We analyze your building's business-hours load shape and factor demand charges into every rate comparison, so you're choosing on total monthly cost, not just the headline rate per kWh.
We align contract terms to your budget year and lease cycle, so pass-through estimates hold up at CAM reconciliation and your operating statement stays predictable for lenders, underwriters, and investors. Fixed, indexed, or hybrid — we model each structure against your actual usage before you commit.
Three steps to a lower electricity rate for your office building or portfolio — we handle the market, you run the property.
Send us a recent electricity bill — or a meter list if you manage multiple buildings. We use your building's load profile, demand peaks, and contract end dates to model the true cost of each rate structure.
We run your building's profile against 25+ Texas REPs and model fixed, indexed, and hybrid options — with demand charges and your lease structure factored into every comparison.
Sign electronically and we handle the supplier transition end-to-end. Your tenants experience zero interruption, and your building moves onto a lower, better-structured contract.
Common questions from Texas property managers, building owners, and asset managers about commercial electricity rates for office buildings.
Office buildings concentrate three significant loads in one facility: HVAC systems that account for more than 30 percent of total electricity use, lighting at roughly 17 percent, and plug loads — computers, monitors, servers, break room equipment — that now reach 25 percent or more in modern offices. US office buildings spend on average about $1.44 per square foot per year on electricity, and energy represents roughly 19 percent of a typical office building's total expenditures. Because that consumption concentrates in weekday business hours — the same window when Texas wholesale prices peak — office buildings that haven't competitively shopped their supply contract routinely overpay.
It depends on the lease structure. Under a gross or full-service lease, the landlord pays all electricity and builds it into the rent — so every dollar saved on supply rates flows directly to net operating income. Under a triple-net (NNN) or modified gross lease, tenants either hold their own accounts or reimburse usage through pass-throughs and CAM charges. In every structure, the common-area and house meters — lobbies, elevators, corridors, garage lighting, central plant — remain the landlord's responsibility. We help owners and property managers secure competitive rates on the meters they control, and we can extend the same procurement to tenants who hold their own accounts.
A demand charge is based on your building's single highest 15-minute power draw of the billing month — not your total consumption. For office buildings, that peak is typically set on a summer weekday morning when HVAC systems across multiple floors start simultaneously to cool the building before occupancy. One high 15-minute interval sets the demand baseline for the entire month, regardless of how efficiently the building runs afterward. We analyze your interval data and factor demand charge structure into every rate comparison, because the lowest energy rate per kWh is not always the lowest total bill.
Yes — and aggregation is usually where the largest savings are. We consolidate landlord-controlled meters across your portfolio into a single procurement event, which gives suppliers a larger combined load to price and typically produces rates a single building can't access on its own. Where contract end dates differ, we build a renewal calendar and stagger procurement so each account is shopped at the right time rather than rolling over onto a default renewal rate.
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