Case Study: Douglas Emmett achieves lower operating expenses with Gridium

Douglas Emmett Deploys Advanced Energy Analytics to Lower OpEx

Douglas Emmett, a premier Class-A office and luxury apartment owner in Southern California and Honolulu, needed a cost-effective way to hit aggressive OpEx savings goals across 45 buildings and a 60+ person team. The company turned to Gridium for advanced energy analytics, aiming to improve energy management with scalable, easy-to-use reporting and actionable insights.

Gridium deployed its energy performance analytics platform to monitor load curves, forecast peak demand, and analyze utility bill variance across the portfolio. With automated data collection and no hardware or BMS software required, Gridium quickly surfaced savings opportunities like reducing early-start times at one building, and its weekly reports helped confirm improvements. The result was better coordination, clearer visibility into energy usage, and ongoing confidence in operational changes that lowered spend.

Douglas Emmett

Robert Lutes

Director of Engineering Services