Emphasis on utility management and sustainability has steadily risen in multifamily housing and become a regular conversation at industry events. For the last 10 years, the RealPage Energy Summit has been the industry’s only conference focused on issues, trends and technology impacting what is the third-highest cost center for apartment operations. This year’s conference, Feb. 25-27 at RealPage in Richardson, Texas, is taking a slightly different spin, one designed to instill thought-provoking conversation about where utility management and sustainability intersects with multifamily. Energy Summit 2020 has assembled a host of apartment leaders and government program administrators who will dig into sound utility management decision making through proven practices. The free, invitational-only conference offers ways that multifamily operators can better conserve resources, improve NOI and more easily navigate a complex regulatory environment. “Some best-in-class experts are presenting their experiences,” said Mary Nitschke, RealPage’s vice president of sustainability. “Leaders from some of the top companies in the multifamily arena will share how they’re overcoming tough challenges in utility management and sustainability practices that provide not just significant operational savings but benefit the financial and physical well-being of residents.”   Getting charged and healthy Electric vehicle charging and building health are new subjects in sustainability that will get play at Energy Summit 2020. EV charging, considered as an amenity today that will become more of a necessity in multifamily as electric cars pick up the pace, hasn’t gotten much attention on the conference circuit. However, sales in electric and hybrid vehicles is steadily climbing, and 30 percent of all vehicle sales in 2025 will be EVs or HEVs, according to J.P. Morgan. The big challenge in multifamily is adapting charging stations...

Emphasis on utility management and sustainability has steadily risen in multifamily housing and become a regular conversation at industry events. For the last 10 years, the RealPage Energy Summit has been the industry’s only conference focused on issues, trends and technology impacting what is the third-highest cost center for apartment operations. This year’s conference, Feb. 25-27 at RealPage in Richardson, Texas, is taking a slightly different spin, one designed to instill thought-provoking conversation about where utility management and sustainability intersects with multifamily. Energy Summit 2020 has assembled a host of apartment leaders and government program administrators who will dig into sound utility management decision making through proven practices. The free, invitational-only conference offers ways that multifamily operators can better conserve resources, improve NOI and more easily navigate a complex regulatory environment. “Some best-in-class experts are presenting their experiences,” said Mary Nitschke, RealPage’s vice president of sustainability. “Leaders from some of the top companies in the multifamily arena will share how they’re overcoming tough challenges in utility management and sustainability practices that provide not just significant operational savings but benefit the financial and physical well-being of residents.”   Getting charged and healthy Electric vehicle charging and building health are new subjects in sustainability that will get play at Energy Summit 2020. EV charging, considered as an amenity today that will become more of a necessity in multifamily as electric cars pick up the pace, hasn’t gotten much attention on the conference circuit. However, sales in electric and hybrid vehicles is steadily climbing, and 30 percent of all vehicle sales in 2025 will be EVs or HEVs, according to J.P. Morgan. The big challenge in multifamily is adapting charging stations...