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Monday, February 3, 2025 | Department of Environmental Protection
On January 30, the Montgomery County Council Transportation & Environment Committee held a meeting to review modified building energy performance standards (BEPS) regulations. After hearing from DEP and the Green Bank, the Committee members voted unanimously in favor of the modified regulations. View the staff packet for this TE Committee meeting or a video of the proceedings.
The modified regulations propose several key changes to the BEPS program, including to:
- Increase final performance standards for some building types.
- Implement a new “performance cap” pathway such that an individual covered building’s final performance standard will not require a reduction of greater than 30% from its baseline.
- Modify definitions of “cost effective” and “economic infeasibility” to be defined within the effective useful life of each measure, rather than 25 years.
- Expand the definition of specially designated buildings to include multifamily buildings that are subject to the County’s rent stabilization requirements.
- Require that energy improvement measures with a simple payback of 5 years or less be implemented before the Department will approve a subsequent building performance improvement plan for compliance with the final standard.
More information about the modified regulations is available under “Regulations” on the BEPS website.
The BEPS regulations will now move out of committee and onto full Council. A Council work session is planned for February 11 and tentatively a full vote by Council before the end of February to meet the Council's current review deadline of February 28. More details and ways to attend or tune in will be posted on the County Council's website.
Join us for the Montgomery County Energy Summit, April 8-9th at the Silver Spring Civic Center for a transformative event focused on advancing building energy performance. Connect with building owners, property managers, developers, energy contractors, and sustainability professionals while exploring strategies that take your building performance beyond basic benchmarking.
Register by the end of today, February 3rd to secure your discounted ticket at Montgomery County’s premier energy efficiency event!
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The Montgomery County Energy Benchmarking Reporting Portal is now accepting calendar year 2024 benchmarking submissions, waiver requests, and exemption requests. All covered buildings 25,000 square feet and up (County and Groups 1 through 5) are required to benchmark and report energy benchmarking data. The deadline to report data to DEP is Monday, June 2, 2025.
If you manually enter your utility data, you can submit as soon as you have bills through December 31, 2024. If your building is connected to Pepco's Energy Usage Data System (EUDS) for aggregated, whole-building electricity data you can expect to see December 2024 usage on March 1.
Congratulations to First Alliance Church at 14500 New Hampshire Ave in Silver Spring for being the first building reported this year!
More resources are available on DEP's Benchmarking Website or contact us at Energy@MontgomeryCountyMD.gov.
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Montgomery County is seeking innovative partners for our new Microgrid/Resiliency Hubs project. This initiative aims to enhance energy resilience and sustainability across multiple County facilities.
The Office of Energy and Sustainability (OES) under the Department of General Services (DGS) is seeking expressions of interest and qualifications to structure a Public Private Partnership (P3) to design-build-finance-operate-maintain distributed energy resource microgrid/resiliency hubs on select County-owned facilities under a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).
Click for the RFEP. Proposals are due on February 28.
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Feb 5, 4 - 6 pm| Montgomery County Green Bank
Market Series: Direct Pay/Elective Pay
ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
Basics of Building Benchmarking to Meet State and Local Policy Requirements Series
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Feb 11, 2 pm: Part 1: A Beginner’s Guide to Using Portfolio Manager for State/Local Benchmarking Law Compliance
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Mar 13, 2 pm: Part 2: Using Benchmarking Results to Understand Your Building’s Performance
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Apr 10, 2 pm: Part 3: To Efficiency & Beyond! How to Benefit from Benchmarking Compliance with Strategies for Improving Efficiency
Catch our team at the following events this month:
Feb 7, 11 am - noon | AOBA
Joint DEP/MDE Webinar on Montgomery County + MD Benchmarking
Feb 20, 7 am - 3 pm | National Capital Region Society of Healthcare Engineers
NCR-SHE February Symposium
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