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Keeping in mind that commercial buildings account for roughly 20 percent of U.S. energy consumption and that 80 percent of all commercial buildings are more than 10 years old, there is a huge opportunity for reducing energy costs in this sector. These facts, coupled with mounting federal, state and city green building mandates, are turning energy efficiency into one of the megatrends defining energy management in the 21st century.
One irony here is that the path to more energy efficient buildings often begins with an old-fashioned “facility audit,” a decidedly pre-Internet process that one expert in the field describes as “guys counting light bulbs.” Surely there’s a better way.
World Energy recently launched the Virtual Energy Audit™ a software-based solution that enables commercial building owners and managers to identify, evaluate, execute and manage retrofit opportunities for a single property or across an entire portfolio. Virtual Energy Audits bring the same efficiency to energy audits that our online auction platform, the World Energy Exchange®, brings to procurement. Now, companies can accurately measure the efficiency of their buildings quickly – as opposed to the weeks or months typically required of traditional walk-through audits – and at a fraction of the cost.
Equally exciting, this new software-based approach permits customers to simulate various retrofit and energy management options, making it easy to identify and assess new opportunities as market conditions change.
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