Background
Bonifacio Global City is one of Metro Manila’s highest-density commercial districts — and one of its highest-cost electricity zones. Tenants in mixed-use developments there regularly face blended rates above ₱13.50 per kWh, driven by the combination of building-level distribution markups and individual accounts with no collective purchasing power.
Patricia Lim manages a 12-unit commercial block along BGC’s retail strip — a mix of food and beverage operators, a co-working space, and a small clinic. Each tenant held an individual electricity account. Monthly bills across the block totalled approximately ₱1.4 million. No one had ever looked at that number as a single pool.
“We knew we were paying a lot,” Lim says. “But every tenant just accepted their bill as a fixed cost of doing business here.”
The Challenge
The structure of BGC commercial tenancy creates natural barriers to collective energy action. Tenants have different lease terms, different consumption profiles, and different operators — a restaurant running from 7am to midnight has almost nothing in common with a clinic open 9 to 5.
SunShare’s analysis of the block’s collective consumption revealed that despite the variation, total monthly kWh volume was well above the contestable customer threshold — meaning the block, as an aggregated unit, qualified for access to competitive generation pricing that individual tenants could never access alone.
The key question wasn’t eligibility. It was governance: how do you coordinate 12 independent businesses to act as a single energy customer?
The SunShare Solution
SunShare handled the coordination layer entirely. Each tenant signed a participation agreement that preserved their individual billing relationship with Lim’s management company while allowing their consumption to be aggregated for the purpose of generation contract pricing.
The Resource Aggregator Program contract was structured with a 12-month initial term, with individual tenants free to exit at lease renewal. SunShare’s platform provided each tenant with their own consumption dashboard — individual visibility within a collective arrangement.
Generation pricing was locked at ₱6.10 per kWh for the contract term, versus the ₱7.50 blended generation component tenants had previously paid through their individual accounts. The ₱1.40 differential applied across the block’s full monthly consumption.
Results
Within the first billing cycle, the block recorded:
- ₱1.40/kWh reduction in blended generation rate
- ₱84,000 estimated monthly savings across 12 units
- 100% tenant retention after first billing cycle — no opt-outs
Lim reports that the most surprising outcome was tenant satisfaction. “I expected pushback on the coordination — changing how billing works always creates friction. Instead, the first bill was the easiest conversation I’ve had with tenants in two years.”
The co-working operator on the block, which runs 24/7 HVAC and high electricity consumption, reported the largest absolute saving — approximately ₱18,000 per month. The clinic, with lower consumption, saved closer to ₱4,200.
What Made It Work
Three factors made BGC the right environment for this model:
- Volume — 12 units with significant individual consumption created a combined load profile that qualified for the best available generation contracts
- Management structure — a single property manager with relationships across all 12 tenants reduced coordination friction dramatically
- Fixed lease terms — contract alignment across tenants meant SunShare could structure a meaningful initial contract term without exit risk
Lim is already in discussions with two adjacent blocks about expanding the aggregation group. “Once the numbers are visible, the conversation changes.”
