Buildings
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…
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…