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Now more than ever, companies are seeing how their
approach to energy directly impacts their cost structure,
risk profile, resilience, and brand value.
Although the commercial real estate industry has slowly
adopted full-scale energy technologies, evolving energy
regulations and standards are prompting real estate owners
and operating teams to better understand and report on
asset energy performance. Historically, many business
leaders viewed energy management as a low-level priority
and opportunity that offered insignificant cost savings to
their bottom line.
However, attitudes toward energy management and
technologies are shifting dramatically to meet public
demands for increased transparency concerning companies’
environmental impacts and corporate social responsibility.
According to a
reportfrom
PricewaterhouseCoopers and
EnerNOC, the world’s leading provider
of energy intelligence software,
total
energy spend is a top-five corporate
expense category
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THE ENERGY MANAGEMENT
EVOLUTION
Best Practices
for Success