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How to Calculate and Present Deep Retrofit Value: A Guide for Owner-Occupants (Executive Summary)
This might come as a surprise to some, but energy efficiency is about more than energy, and deep energy retrofits, which achieve superior energy savings over conventional retrofits and can reduce a building’s energy consumption by 50 percent or more, offer bottom-line benefits for business beyond energy cost savings alone.
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…
Incorporating Uncertainty Analysis into a Building Retrofit Analysis Using OpenStudio and EnergyPlus
Describe the new Uncertainty Analysis capabilities of OpenStudio.Identify features in OpenStudio relevant to uncertainty analysis.Explain how to incorporate uncertainty analysis into deep retrofit project.Describe the benefits of uncertainty analysis.
Tapping Deep Retrofit Value
To assess a deep retrofit project, a professional must evaluate the outcomes of a deep energy retrofit on a given value element and then address how the outcomes create business value. But professionals need not evaluate and present each of the nine value elements. It may make most sense to…
Executive Summary: Workshop Report; 360 perspective on Deep Energy Retrofits
Deep energy retrofits, which can save upwards of 50 percent or more of a building’s energy consumption, hold the key to enabling significant building energy use reductions and operational cost savings. They could also bring federal agencies into compliance with federal energy efficiency mandates. While this opportunity has long been…