Posts by: Ron Reed
The future of utility management remains optimistic. While slowing from its original pace, the rental housing market continues to grow steadily nationwide with growth coast-to-coast. A little more than a third of the U.S. population now lives in rental housing making conservation efforts and regulatory issues more prevalent to owners and operators. Leveraging an ever-changing […]
2016 promises to be an interesting year. NWP, now part of the RealPage family, continues to roll out innovations that make utility management and regulatory compliance easier, and results, more reliable. Many are in direct response to regulatory requirements, now and into the future.
NWP leads the industry in data visualization and mobile computing as […]
2015 has been a busy year for technology. Businesses continue to use technology in new and different ways, and technology-enabled automation is one of the most talked about trends today. Companies seek to quantify customers’ desires to leverage technology systems to make processes simpler, quicker and more efficient. Automation continues to advance in nearly every […]
Summertime is here and with it, conservation and consumption awareness become top of mind. In the summer we use water and electricity at much larger volumes. In fact, NWP’s energy consumption data for the Midwest shows electricity and water use increased 22 percent and 24 percent, respectively, from spring to summer 2014.
Water is fundamental […]
While a lot of the nation’s trends begin in California, I’m hoping the state’s drought isn’t one of them. After a decade of general scarcity the West is now in its third year of a debilitating drought.
At the beginning of the year Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency and the state’s Department of […]
In April of this year, I had the honor of hosting NWP’s fourth Energy Summit. In the following pages, we have captured just a few highlights shared by this amazing gathering of water and energy professionals. Case studies have been included from three multifamily operators in addition to information on government programs beneficial to helping […]
