Building Energy Rating: Who Benefits?
PROPERTY OWNERS are informed of cost-effective energy savings opportunities and benefit from a more secure return on investment, even if they sell early.
BUYERS AND RENTERS can make more informed decisions and avoid costly surprises.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING owners and managers can benchmark their facilities' performance, enabling continuous improvements.
ENERGY AUDITORS gain a substantial, sustained new business opportunity and an incentive to innovate.
CONTRACTORS will see sustained growth in market demand, providing a stable stream of renovation jobs.
DEVELOPERS gain added value for building to and beyond energy codes.
REALTORS can provide their clients with credible information to distinguish high-performance buildings from their peers.
ENERGY SERVICE COMPANIES (ESCOS) can market directly to owners of buildings with the biggest savings opportunities.
UTILITIES will see greater uptake in energy efficiency programs and will be able to target-market incentives in the commercial building sector.
Building Energy Rating
As Northeast states and municipalities work to strengthen their economies, create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve greater energy efficiency and independence, mandatory disclosure and upgrade policies offer an exciting new opportunity to transform markets to value and secure significant energy savings.A new report commissioned by NEEP, says that Northeast states could greatly increase the energy efficiency of homes and buildings through a public policy requiring the rating and disclosure of a building's energy performance.
Key Concepts
Valuing Building Energy Efficiency through Disclosure and Upgrade Policies: A Roadmap for the Northeast U.S., lays out a guide for implementing two key tools as part of a building energy rating system:
• MANDATORY BUILDING ENERGY DISCLOSURE POLICIES which seek to better inform the housing market by requiring information about building energy performance be disclosed to potential buyers, renters and the public; and
• MANDATORY UPGRADE POLICIES which would require adoption of certain cost-effective energy efficiency measures in relation to that disclosure.
Building energy rating disclosure policies can be effective in getting markets to value energy efficiency, and act as a powerful complement to more conventional incentive programs.
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| Buildings Magazine - May 2010 | |