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Before Your First BERDO Filing: Last Minute Steps to Reduce Compliance Costs

Before Your First BERDO Filing: Last Minute Steps to Reduce Compliance Costs

Boston’s Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO) requires covered buildings to report and meet performance requirements over time. If your first filing is approaching, the decisions you make now can impact compliance cost, risk, and internal effort.

The City of Boston has extended the deadline to address any excess 2025 emissions from May 15 to August 15, 2026.

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Our experts reviewed:

  • What to confirm before submitting your first BERDO filing
  • What counts toward compliance and how approved electricity solutions can help
  • How penalties are structured and how early choices can reduce risk and cost
  • Approved options that can simplify compliance and reduce ongoing administrative lift

Key Takeaway

Your first filing is approaching and the decisions you make now may impact compliance cost, risk, and internal effort. Download our fact sheet and FAQs to keep all details at your fingertips.

Download the Q&A Download the Fact Sheet

Why NRG Business

NRG Business has an approved PPA confirmed to meet ordinance requirements. Our Renewable Grid Connect helps customers meet electricity related compliance requirements with minimal internal lift. 

Once enrolled in an approved solution, customers are compliant for the electricity related emissions addressed.&

  • NRG currently has a power purchase agreement (PPA) that has been approved by the City of Boston. Customers gain access to this PPA through NRG’s Renewable Grid Connect (RGC) to support BERDO compliance. RGC helps building owners mitigate emissions that exceed the BERDO emissions standard. Compliance also includes Third Party Verification of their data and emissions reduction mechanisms. Lastly the building owner must file BERDO Reporting Form. Also note, BERDO Staff is encouraging building owners to take the above three steps as soon as possible despite the deadline extension.
  • Under current BERDO regulations, RECs used to address 2025 emissions must be retired by June 30, 2026.
  • To ensure adequate time for REC retirement and required reporting, NRG will offer RGC RECs for 2025 emissions through June 26, 2026. RGC will continue to be available for 2026 and future compliance years. 

Speakers

Sharon Dupuis - Sales Manager, New England, NRG Energy, Inc.

 

Native to the New England region Sharon is from Connecticut and has over 33 years of energy industry experience in sales and pricing. Before joining NRG 16 years ago, she worked with both Yankee Gas and Select Energy. Her daily focus is coaching her team on successful sales techniques and customer support and maximizing NRG’s book of business and speed to market.

John Holtz – Senior Director, Market Development and Regulatory Affairs, NRG Energy, Inc.

 

John Holtz leads the charge in expanding competitive retail energy markets across the Midwest and Eastern U.S. John’s responsibilities extend to state regulatory compliance and the support of business development and operations for eight NRG retail companies in the Midwest, Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions. With nearly four decades of experience in public policy, John is deeply knowledgeable about energy, environmental, and consumer protection matters. He has held positions in both the legislative and executive branches of the New Jersey state government and was a member of the Governor’s Consumer Protection Advisory Council. His private sector experience includes roles at the American Petroleum Institute and New Jersey-American Water Company. John's journey in the energy sector began in 1998 with Green Mountain Energy Company, where he opened new markets and managed successful business units in Florida and New York. Today, he also shares his expertise as a guest lecturer on energy restructuring policy at Rutgers University.

Hans Rottmann - Senior Manager, Technical Sales East, NRG Energy, Inc.

 

Hans leads a team that works with sales representatives to offer energy solutions to customers. The solutions include complex retail gas and electric products, renewable services, and demand side capabilities. Hans has over 30 years of experience in the wholesale and retail energy markets, including working with some of Direct Energy’s largest key customers to develop and implement energy procurement strategies. Hans came to NRG via the recent acquisition of Direct Energy, where he started in 2000. Hans received both his Bachelor of Science in Accounting, cum laude, and his Master of Business Administration from the University of Buffalo.

 

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