Industrial Parks & Landlords
Forty tenant boundaries, one aggregated bill, and a valuation waiting on the difference
A multi-tenant industrial park is the highest-return submetering asset class there is, because the tenant loads are large, variable, and almost never allocated correctly.
Beyond kilowatt-hours: automated billing and cost recovery across buildings, feeders and shared infrastructure turns shared-load guesswork into itemized, defensible invoices.
The problem
One service, one bill, forty spaces, and an allocation schedule built from square footage that was set when the park was leased. A fabricator with three shifts and a 300-horsepower compressor pays the same per square foot as a distribution tenant with a forklift charger and a light. The difference is absorbed. When a tenant leaves and a heavier one moves in, nothing changes on the schedule. And when the park is refinanced or sold, the absorbed expense sits inside net operating income where it is worth ten to seventeen times itself.
The value math for this park
The comparison that does all the work
A 40-space park is a $60,000–$80,000 one-time metering spend set against a six- or seven-figure valuation swing. At a $100,000 annual recovery delta and a 7% cap rate, the hardware is roughly 5% of the value created. There is no other operating improvement in a park with that ratio.
How to compute the delta before buying anything
Take twelve months of utility statements and the current allocation schedule. Estimate connected load per space from the panel schedules and the tenant's equipment. The gap between what the schedule recovers and what the load implies is the delta, and in parks with mixed industrial and distribution tenancy it is routinely the largest single line of leakage in the operating statement.
Meter the boundaries, not the branches
Billing-grade meters on the 40 tenant boundaries. Insight-grade sensors on house load, site lighting, and any shared plant. Everything else allocated. Metering every branch circuit is over-engineering — the sensors cannot read below roughly 0.75–1 amp anyway, and the mapping cost is what actually scales.
Then the second recovery
Once each space is metered, the park's own peak becomes attributable. At roughly $119,000 per megawatt per year of PJM capacity cost, a park carrying 4 MW of peak load contribution is carrying about $476,000 a year — and for the first time it can be assigned to the tenants who caused it, or reduced.
What OptimizeOS does for industrial parks & landlords
Platform capabilities mapped to the outcomes this market actually gets paid for.
Hardware-agnostic ingestion
Bring Panoramic Power, LoRaWAN, Modbus/pulse submeters and MQTT/JSON pushes into one unified data model — no rip and replace.
Tenant billing
Recover energy cost per occupant across buildings with consistent rate plans and automated invoicing.
Portfolio benchmarking
Rank buildings by intensity and cost so capital goes to the worst performer, not the loudest tenant.
Per-building alerts
Separate alert rules per site and per occupant, routed to whoever actually manages that building.
Power quality
Watch power factor and voltage on shared feeders to protect the park from penalties and nuisance trips.
Capacity headroom
Meter the boundaries, not the branches. Trend feeder demand to know what a new tenant or expansion can actually be given, and make the park's own peak load contribution attributable for the first time.
A day in the life: the feeder with no headroom
A representative scenario of the platform catching a real issue in this facility type.
- Q1
A prospective tenant wants 400A in Building C.
- Same day
The feeder's twelve-month demand trend is pulled up in OptimizeOS.
- Same day
Peak demand already sits at 78% of capacity, driven by two evening shifts.
- Week later
The tenant is placed in Building E, and Building C's upgrade is budgeted with evidence.
- Ongoing
Both buildings bill automatically off their own submeters.
Market and programme data, not customer results. Sources are named on each figure.
Who installs it
Billing-grade meters on tenant boundaries need scheduled panel access with the certified partner's licensed electrician; the window is named per space in the quote and coordinated with the property manager. Insight-grade sensors on house load and shared plant do not need an outage. The owner owns the meters.