Commercial Buildings
How to Calculate and Present Deep Retrofit Value (Executive Summary)
Energy efficiency building retrofits in the United States and around the world are attractive investments, but receive far less attention and capital than they deserve. This is in part due to a narrow definition of their value, typically focused on energy cost savings alone, and in part due to confusion…
Practice Guide: The Path to a Deep Energy Retrofit Using an Energy Savings Performance Contract
Seven key steps will help owners reach deeper energy savings through Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs). ESPCs are partnerships between a Federal agency and an energy service company (ESCO) that allow federal agencies to complete energy-savings projects without upfront capital costs or special Congressional appropriations.
The missing link: Transforming deep retrofits into financial assets
Deep retrofits—those saving 50 percent or more energy and achieving superior sustainability performance—are valuable yet largely untapped financial assets. This paper describes how to calculate all the value propositions of deep retrofits, enabling such investments to take their proper role as a central driver of company performance. Many comparisons have…
How to Calculate and Present Deep Retrofit Value: A Guide for Owner Occupants
Deep retrofits generate substantial value for owner-occupants, well beyond the energy cost savings . When all the benefits of deep retrofits are included in the calculation of value, deep retrofits can compete directly for company equity delivering rates of return, at reasonable risk, well in excess of most company’s “hurdle…
How to Calculate and Present Deep Retrofit Value: A Guide Owners-Occupants
Deep retrofit value is the net present value of all of the benefits of a deep energy and sustainability investment. The Deep Retrofit Value Guide documents the compelling logic of how deep energy efficiency and sustainability retrofits create value and introduces RMI’s Deep Retrofit Value models, providing the foundational methodology…