There’s a Paradigm Shift Underway in Energy Efficiency

If you dropped $100,000 on the street, you'd probably notice it and want to pick it back up. Yet for 30 years, building owners have been leaving thousands -- if not millions -- of dollars on the table by not doing energy efficiency projects and plugging energy that leaks.

But that is a trend that we believe is about to change.

The opportunities and obstacles within energy efficiency are well known. Since buildings are responsible for 40 percent of global energy consumption and 33 percent of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions, the potential size of the retrofit market is massive: Deutsche Bank estimates that $289 billion worth of investment would produce savings in excess of $1 trillion in the U.S. alone; put another way, every dollar invested in energy efficiency produces three dollars of savings.