white paper

Retrofit for purpose - upgrading to efficient building stock

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In a world of rising inflation, increased fuel costs, and supply chain disruption, investment in decarbonizing buildings has slowed. Given the significant energy-saving benefits of retrofit technology, buildings owners are missing out. Specialist finance arrangements create affordable approaches to investment, delivering cost and emissions reductions without putting pressure on capital resources.

Maintaining rapid decarbonization of the world’s building stock without large capital outlay.

Buildings’ operations account for 30% of global final energy consumption and 26% of global energy-related emissions, making them a prime target for decarbonization through retrofit. Yet progress in reducing emissions to date is not enough, and worse still, slowing.

  • A lack of available capital means a substantial number of building owners are missing out on the deliverable operational cost reductions, carbon emission reductions and supply security that can be gained.

  • Nevertheless, arrangements known as energy-efficiency-as-a-service are increasingly enabling investment in retrofit technologies without putting pressure on capital resources.

  • To quantify the potential impact of these schemes, this insight study estimates the baseline annual emissions reduction that energy-efficiency-as-a-service arrangements could enable between now and the end of the decade in four key areas of the world – North America, Europe, India and China.

Download the white paper to find out how flexible financing arrangements and expert technology partnerships can help secure cost reductions without putting pressure on capital resources.

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