Madison Building Energy Savings compliance, filed for you
The Madison Building Energy Savings Ordinance requires covered buildings to report energy use every year. We gather the data, check it, and file it — usually within a week.
Who’s covered
Non-residential commercial buildings of 25,000 sq ft or more, phased in from 2024.
Annual deadline
June 30 for the previous calendar year.
Verification
No routine third-party verification — but the program runs its own data checks, so accuracy still matters.
Penalties
The city can enforce against owners on the covered buildings list who don’t report.
What to report
All energy used by the whole building — including tenant spaces — for January 1 to December 31:
- Electricity — every meter serving the building
- Natural gas
- District steam, hot or chilled water, if you have it
- Delivered fuels (oil, diesel, propane) — all delivery receipts for the year
- On-site solar production, if any
Leave out backup generator fuel. Note any meters added or removed during the year.
Good to know
- Covered buildings also complete a building tune-up every four years.
What we’ll need from you
- Building address, plus any utility service addresses that differ from it
- Gross floor area for the whole building and each use (office, retail, residential…), number of units and year built
- Your Madison Building ID (we can look it up)
- Utility data for the full calendar year, January 1 – December 31 (usually 13 months of bills)
- If tenants pay their own utilities: whole-building (aggregated) data from the utility, or signed tenant authorization forms
- Access to your ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager account, if you have one
- Any notice or letter you received about this law
Madison Building Energy Savings questions
When is the Madison Building Energy Savings deadline?
Does Madison Building Energy Savings apply to my building?
What happens if I miss it?
Official program information: Madison Building Energy Savings website. Requirements change — we confirm current rules for every filing.