Davos - Energy Saving A Great Business Opportunity
The great and the good of the political, business and financial world have been gathering at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and in one of the meetings energy efficiency was a major concern.
The discussion confirmed that it makes financial sense to make existing buildings energy efficient by retrofitting energy efficient solutions and that this requirement makes for a great business opportunity for anyone in the energy saving business, like an Enigin Distributorship.
Reporting on his Blog from Davos Colin Dyer, CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle, wrote about the discussions when he chaired the Governors Meeting for Real Estate.
The meeting involved 50 senior people from the real estate, hotel and financial sectors.
Presentations were made and discussions started about the role of retrofitting energy efficiency into existing real estate.
Dyer commented that the meeting highlighted that the big problem about energy management and carbon emissions from real estate is not so much building new properties effectively, but retrofitting energy efficiency into the vast majority of existing commercial property, which will still be with us in 2050.
Dyer reported on his blog the principal points made by the speakers:
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There are big business opportunities in improving efficiency.
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There is quick financial payback from investing in technologies.
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Building costs are 20 percent of the life-cycle energy costs of real estate, and therefore there are big benefits in lowering the cost of that 80 percent tail.
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LEED has become a very effective international marketing tool for building efficiency.
- The world has to develop and implement ‘green leases’ to allow the benefits and costs of retrofitting to be shared between owners and occupiers.
Dyer observed that the appetite for sustainability hasn’t dampened during the past year and in fact seems stronger, primarily driven by the real cost savings potential of energy efficiency – further good news for independent Enigin Distributors.
