Office & Campus LED retrofits in California.
Office parks, corporate campuses, mixed-use developments, convention centers, and hospitality venues. Portfolio-wide LED retrofits with a single specification across buildings so every facade, walkway, and parking area reads consistently after dark.
What office & campus operators in California should know.
California is a high-value market with the highest commercial electricity rates in the continental US — averaging ~$0.23/kWh, with some territories pushing $0.30/kWh. That makes LED retrofit payback exceptionally fast — typically under 2 years. Title 24 requires automatic lighting reduction at night, which means controls aren't optional. Energie's California office handles CRE, office, and industrial projects across the state.
Average commercial rate: $0.23/kWh (highest in continental US)
California incentive navigation
SCE covers most of southern California outside LA city. Commercial LED and controls incentives run through custom and deemed pathways, with some of the strongest control-system incentives in the country.
PG&E territory covers northern and central California. Title 24 compliance requirements make networked controls effectively mandatory on larger retrofits, which increases the incentive pool.
SDG&E serves San Diego and south Orange County. Prescriptive and custom pathways for commercial lighting upgrades.
What office & campus operators tell us is broken.
Inconsistent spec across buildings
Campuses grow over decades. Each building gets a different fixture vintage. The result is a property that reads disjointed after dark.
Tenant SLAs on lighting uptime
Corporate office tenants expect uptime SLAs on common area lighting. One fixture out = a call to the PM. LED + controls eliminate most of those calls.
ESG reporting is mandatory now
Class A office portfolios report Scope 1 + 2 emissions. LED retrofits are the fastest path to a credible reduction number that auditors accept.
Phased install complexity
Large campuses can't go dark. We phase the install building-by-building with no impact on tenants or operations.
Knight Building Campus is the reference — multi-building commercial campus with a unified LED design across offices, parking decks, and walkways. Every surface reads at the same level.
One spec. One install partner. One point of accountability.
Portfolio-wide LED on a campus isn't harder than a single building — it's actually easier when you have one spec across every building. The cost per fixture drops, the install crew gets efficient, and the property ends up feeling intentional.
- Single LED spec across all buildings drives down per-fixture cost via volume
- 4000K CCT across the whole campus creates visual continuity after dark
- Commissioning once for the portfolio vs 10 times for individual buildings
- Unified warranty and service contract covers every building at one rate
Real work in California.
Portfolio audit.
We'll walk every building, deliver a unified spec, and phase the install so nothing goes dark. One crew, one timeline, one point of accountability.