San Francisco, October 5, 2012
All real estate market participants will benefit from improved energy efficiency in US buildings, both commercial and residential. But how can the capital needed to finance these improvements be accessed and deployed to catalyze an energy efficiency market transformation?
A number of impediments challenge the scaled deployment of capital to energy efficiency, including the need for: (1) data and underwriting techniques to include energy considerations in risk and asset management decisions; (2) a liquid secondary market for existing and proposed energy efficiency financing products; and (3) technology innovations to measure and benchmark energy efficiency risk.
What Are the Keys?
On October 5 we will explore the keys to unlocking capital to finance energy efficiency investments in buildings. The Forum is organized with a point of view: assessing and managing energy risk is critical to unlocking the trillions of dollars necessary to achieve energy efficiency benefits. We invite you to participate in active conversations among leaders in real estate, finance and technology to:
- Evaluate ways to include energy cost into asset management and portfolio risk decisions
- Compare benefits of financing energy efficiency through the first lien market with other financing innovations and methods for bringing capital to building owners for improvements
- Discuss current and emerging technologies and methodologies to facilitate energy risk management and building energy assessment
- Explore developments in the nascent venture, secondary and bond markets for energy efficiency and ideas for scaling these markets
Resources
Ashok Bardhan
Expediting Energy Efficient Retrofits for U.S. Housing: Where Things Stand
With Dwight Jaffee and Cynthia Kroll
Green Buildings in Green Cities: Integrating Energy Efficiency into the Real Estate Industry
With Cynthia Kroll
Jeanne Clinton
California’s Efforts to Scale-Up Demand-Side Investment by Adding Finance Tools
Dwight Jaffee
Energy Efficiency and Commercial-Mortgage Valuation
With Richard Stanton and Nancy Wallace
Paul Mathew
Determining Energy Use Volatility for Commercial Mortgage Valuation
With XiuFeng Pang and Liping Wang