Utility bills for hotels, measured per occupied room

Hotels run around the clock, with energy and water costs that rise and fall with occupancy. Nectar collects and validates every utility bill across your properties, tracks energy and water per occupied room, and keeps benchmarking and brand reporting current without asking property teams for spreadsheets.

Hotel lobby with warm lighting

Hotel properties are usually run independently, by different management companies, under different brands, in different utility territories. Decisions about HVAC schedules, laundry, pools, and kitchens are made locally, so building a consistent picture of energy and water use across a portfolio is hard. Guest comfort comes first, which means savings have to come from data, not from turning things off.

Owners, operators, and brands also face benchmarking ordinances and brand sustainability programs that ask for complete annual data. Nectar gives every party one validated data set, collected from the utilities directly.

Challenge

Property teams send data late, in different formats, or not at all.

Solution

Nectar collects bills directly from 7,000+ utilities, parses each at the line-item level, and tracks missing and partial months by property, with tasks assigned to whoever owns each gap.

Challenge

Costs move with occupancy, so year-over-year comparisons mislead.

Solution

Custom variables store monthly occupied rooms or room nights for each property, so energy and water are tracked per occupied room, alongside weather-normalized trends.

Challenge

Benchmarking ordinances and brand programs require complete annual data.

Solution

Property data stays synced with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, which supports hotel benchmarking, and exports go to carbon accounting platforms with an audit trail.

Energy and water per occupied room

Electricity, gas, water, and sewer data are tracked against occupancy, so properties are compared on how efficiently they serve guests rather than on total spend. Unusual usage, such as a water leak or a stuck HVAC schedule, is flagged as soon as each bill is processed.

Each property’s accounts are reviewed against available rate schedules once 12 months of data are in, which matters for properties whose occupancy swings by season.

Hotel corridor with room doors

Owners, operators, and brands

Each owner group or management company can be set up as its own company under one organization, with members invited by role and site. Asset managers see the portfolio, and property teams see their own hotels.

Bills can be paid through regulated payment partners for US properties or delivered to each property’s accounting system as coded payables.

Resort pool and hotel tower at golden hour

Why hotel teams choose Nectar

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Data

Utility bills for every property parsed at 99.2% accuracy, normalized for occupancy and weather, and linked to their source documents.

Automation

Bills collected directly from utilities, gaps tracked as tasks, and property data synced with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and your carbon platform.

Service

Human review of flagged bills, account changes handled when properties are acquired or sold, and a named customer success manager.

What changes for hotel teams

Complete data without chasing properties

Before Nectar, asset managers emailed every property for bills. After, bills arrive from the utilities and gaps are tracked by property.

→ Data completeness

Properties compared per occupied room

Before Nectar, a busy summer looked like an efficiency problem. After, energy and water are compared per occupied room.

→ Benchmarks

Benchmarking submissions ready

Before Nectar, ordinance deadlines meant weeks of data entry. After, property data stays synced with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.

→ ENERGY STAR

Frequently asked questions

Can Nectar track energy per occupied room?

Yes. Enter or import monthly occupied rooms or room nights as a custom variable for each property, then use it as the intensity denominator in analytics and exports.

Does Nectar work with ENERGY STAR for hotels?

Yes. Nectar syncs electricity, natural gas, and district steam data to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, with per-meter start dates and safe handling of overlapping records.

Can management companies and owners share one platform?

Yes. Each owner group or management company can be its own company under one organization, with access limited by role and site.

One platform for every utility decision

Utility bill management, energy cost management and procurement, and sustainability reporting in one system, shared by energy, finance, operations, and sustainability teams.

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Utility bill management

Every bill for every utility, waste, and telecom account collected, parsed at the line-item level, and tracked against its expected date.

Automated bill collectionData completenessAudit trailAI agent and smart reports
Nectar sustainability reporting and benchmarks — utility data management feature

Sustainability reporting and benchmarks

Audit-ready data for ESG reporting, site benchmarks, ENERGY STAR sync, and exports to carbon accounting platforms.

BenchmarksENERGY STAR Portfolio ManagerESG and carbon integrationsWaste and recycling
Nectar bill audit, bill pay, and ap — utility data management feature

Bill audit, bill pay, and AP

Errors caught before payment, past overcharges recovered, and validated bills paid on time or delivered to your AP system.

Utility bill auditsHistorical bill auditUtility bill paymentsAP and ERP integration
Nectar energy cost management and procurement — utility data management feature

Energy cost management and procurement

Tariff and rate optimization, demand management, and procurement advisory. Customers typically save 3 to 5% of annual utility spend.

Tariff and rate optimizationDemand managementProcurement advisoryBudgeting and forecasts

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Customer Stories
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How Thomas Foods automated more than 90% of its utility data collection

Thomas Foods International uses Nectar to collect and organize utility data across its US facilities, replacing manual bill downloads and spreadsheet entry.

“Using Nectar has significantly streamlined the process of gathering and analyzing our utility data. The platform just works!”
Jonathan R., Sustainability Director at Thomas Foods Int., USA — Nectar customer

Jonathan R.

Sustainability Director, Thomas Foods Int., USA

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Stanwich Energy Boosts Client Value with Nectar's Utility Data Solution

Stanwich Energy announces a new partnership with Nectar to enhance the customer experience through advanced, AI-powered utility data services.

“Partnering with Nectar's AI-driven platform has been groundbreaking, allowing us to tackle changes faster and skip the outdated, painful integration required by other solutions. Having the right information is the first step, and Nectar is exactly what we have been looking for to make that happen.”
Matt Shaw, Managing Director at Stanwich Energy — Nectar customer

Matt Shaw

Managing Director, Stanwich Energy

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Jeremy Pike, Sustainability Leader at Idaho Milk Products — Nectar customer

Jeremy Pike

Sustainability Leader, Idaho Milk Products

“Thanks to Nectar's innovative solution, we can accurately assess our environmental impact, becoming a pioneer in sustainability among our peers.”

John O'Connell, CEO and Founder at Stanwich Energy — Nectar customer

John O'Connell

CEO and Founder, Stanwich Energy

“Nectar enables faster insights, smarter forecasting, and more accurate budget tracking. It also strengthens our ability to deliver on key sustainability goals by providing real-time visibility into usage and emissions.”

Matt Greening, Founder and Director at Nettzero — Nectar customer

Matt Greening

Founder and Director, Nettzero

“Nectar serves as a reliable and cost-effective technology solution to extract, store, and analyse sustainability data leading to enhanced reporting capabilities and streamlined workflows.”

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