Recover tenant utilities across your commercial center.
Strip malls, mixed-use, and office centers carry uneven tenant loads. A restaurant uses far more water and gas than the salon next door. NES submeters each space, bills tenants for what they actually use, and recovers common-area utilities under your lease.
Tenant-level utility metering for commercial property.
Commercial submetering installs a dedicated water, gas, or electric meter on each tenant space (and often on common areas) downstream of the master utility meter. NES reads those meters, allocates common-area usage, and bills each tenant for their share, which turns a fixed operating cost into a recovered pass-through.
Why it works
Why owners choose NES.
Fair allocation
Per-tenant
Stop subsidizing the heavy users.
A laundromat or restaurant can use 5 to 10x the utilities of a retail neighbor. Submetering bills each tenant for actual consumption instead of pro-rata square footage, so light users aren't subsidizing heavy ones.
Lease alignment
NNN / gross
Recovery that matches your lease structure.
Whether your tenants are on triple-net, modified-gross, or full-service leases, NES configures billing to recover the utilities your lease lets you pass through, including common-area (CAM) loads.
Mixed-use ready
1 vendor
Retail, office, and residential under one roof.
Mixed-use centers mix metering needs. NES handles tenant retail spaces, office suites, and residential units on one platform, with one invoice relationship for you.
Common questions
What owners ask before signing.
Yes. NES retrofits submeters into occupied commercial centers, scheduling around tenant operating hours to minimize disruption. We survey the property first and recommend the most cost-effective meter placement per space.
Common-area water, irrigation, and lighting can be metered and allocated back to tenants per your lease's CAM provisions, usually by square footage or a negotiated share, so the landlord isn't absorbing shared utility costs.
It's ideal for NNN. Submetering gives you defensible, consumption-based numbers to pass through, replacing estimated allocations that tenants often dispute.
Water and sewer, natural gas, and electricity can all be submetered at the tenant level. Where a dedicated meter is not practical for a space, NES can allocate that share by formula instead.
Get started
Find out what your property can recover. No fee.
Send us your master-meter bills and unit count. We’ll model the recovery on your real numbers and come back within one business day with submetering or RUBS, whichever fits.