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Energy efficiency project investments and financing are approved based on economics, not energy savings. However, the consideration and modeling of economic factors typically receives a disproportionately small allotment of the energy analysis time budget. This analysis paradigm often fails to adequately address the concerns that matter most to investors, leading decision-makers to avoid energy efficiency projects regardless of the opportunity available.This paper presents an alternative, investor-centric approach specifically geared towards catalyzing the broad-scale adoption of currently-viable, easily-customizable energy conservation measures (ECMs) in portfolios of like buildings (e.g. large office buildings). This approach can be adopted by energy modelers to significantly increase the adoption rate of the ECMs they propose.

Citation: ASHRAE/IBPSA-USA Bldg Simulation Conf, 2016

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Published: 2016 Number of Pages: 7Units of Measure:DualFile Size: 1 file , 2 MB Product Code(s): D-BSC16-14