{"id":7238,"date":"2025-04-21T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/?p=7238"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:33:49","slug":"meeb-newsletter-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/2025\/04\/21\/meeb-newsletter-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MEEB Newsletter: April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><u>STATE LAW REQUIRES BUILDING OWNERS TO REPORT ENERGY CONSUMPTION<\/u><\/span><\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"entry-title entry-title--large p-name\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-content-field=\"title\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">CONDO ASSOCIATIONS MUST COMPLY \u2013 THEY DON\u2019T HAVE TO PANIC<\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"\">Say what? That is how many condominium trustees and owners have reacted to the notice informing them of their obligation as building owners to report the energy usage in their buildings by June 30. For many recipients, there were two surprises in this notice: That this reporting requirement exists, and that trustees or apparently random condominium owners are considered to be \u201cowners\u201d of their buildings. We will explain both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">First, the reporting requirement stems from a state law (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Laws\/SessionLaws\/Acts\/2022\/Chapter179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, Large Building Energy Reporting<\/a>\u201d) enacted in 2022, requiring all buildings larger than 20,000 sq ft. to report their consumption of energy of all kinds.\u00a0 That law takes effect this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeb.com\/marcus-errico-emmer-brooks-newsletter\/energy-efficiency\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATE LAW REQUIRES BUILDING OWNERS TO REPORT ENERGY CONSUMPTION CONDO ASSOCIATIONS MUST COMPLY \u2013 THEY DON\u2019T HAVE TO PANIC Say what? That is how many condominium trustees and owners have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"arc_restricted_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-trustees","category-board_blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbMqog-1SK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}