Sustainable Business
By developing higher efficiency systems, companies reduce the overall carbon footprint of their business. Additional environmental benefits can be achieved through the use of bio-diesel, day-light harvesting, rainwater reclamation, solar power, geothermal, and other renewable applications where circumstances permit.
Optimization of System Performance
Energy infrastructure designs have traditionally been optimized for a limited set of static conditions. Since real-world conditions change continually, systems that operate according to a static model deliver sub-optimum performance most of the time. EnergyWorks’ service solutions take a broader perspective, extending beyond the facility to include the dynamics of facility use as well as the markets and physical environments within which they operate. This systems approach is coupled with technology applications that can monitor and re-optimize performance in response to real-time changes such as solar radiation, outside air temperature, humidity, and people loading. Dynamic optimization provides significant benefits in energy cost savings, quality of service, conservation of resources, and preservation of the environment. Through the enhanced system performance and reduction of energy consumption, customers are less affected by the volatility of energy commodity costs and therefore reduce their operational risk.
Increase Building Value
As improvements are made to the energy infrastructure, through both asset and operational improvements, property value directly increases (every $1 invested in energy efficiency increases the asset value by $3). Green buildings command an average 15% premium lease rates compared to Class A non-green buildings and have a 3% higher occupancy rate. Additionally, any reduction in operating costs directly translates into an increase in net operating income (NOI).
Conservation of Capital / Financial Performance
Energy can represent 25-35% of a building's operational costs. By undertaking the proper energy conservation measures (ECM), a company will reduce its energy costs. From a financial perspective this will contribute directly to the bottom line. With the right expertise some of these ECM's can be realized through no-cost or low-cost projects. Additional benefits have been seen in recent studies that have linked energy management to stock performance. The demand by investors for businesses to report their environmental performance, as part of their "triple bottom line", a well established practice in Europe, is becoming increasingly pertinent in the United States shortly.
Risk Management
By reducing the amount of energy use, a company can directly reduce the overall impact of energy price volatility.
Core Business
Through full or partial outsourcing of their energy infrastructure, there is no need for businesses to attempt complex energy management and operations but can instead concentrate on their core businesses.
