Case Study: Douglas Emmett achieves lower OPEX and portfolio energy savings with Gridium's Snapmeter & Billcast

Douglas Emmett Deploys Advanced Utility Data Analytics to Lower OPEX

Douglas Emmett, a premier owner-operator of Class‑A office and luxury apartment properties in Southern California and Honolulu, manages 45 buildings (9 million sq ft) across SCE and LADWP territories. With aggressive OPEX savings targets and a 60+ person engineering and property-management team, the company needed scalable, easy-to-use analytics and actionable reporting to coordinate energy reductions across the portfolio.

Gridium’s Snapmeter and Billcast were rapidly provisioned—no onsite hardware or BMS programming—to deliver automated load‑curve monitoring, peak demand forecasting, utility bill management and monthly variance analysis via Monday emailed reports and an online dashboard. Machine‑learning alerts identified specific opportunities (for example, an early HVAC startup causing high mid‑morning demand charges), enabling operational fixes that reduced utility spend, validated savings with variance analysis, and provided ongoing feedback to fine‑tune portfolio operations.

Douglas Emmett

Robert Lutes

Director of Engineering Services