Energy
Total Portfolio: Energy Efficiency Solutions (2013)
The Total Portfolio analysis clarifies the sustainability benefits, business value and maturity of 25 energy efficiency solutions. Verdantix conducted a fact-based assessment of each solution’s maturity, investment case, future prospects and sustainability benefits. Executives and managers responsible for implementing energy efficiency programmes should use this structured assessment to prioritize spending decisions and shortlist suppliers. View Full Details »
Published: 25 March 2013
Lower Installation Costs Fuel Boom In Lighting Controls
This report helps heads of real estate within corporations and facilities managers understand the technology, regulatory and market forces behind the growing momentum in lighting controls. Of these, the two most important have been the evolution of open communication protocols and wireless networking, which has enabled the interoperability of digital lighting controls with building management systems and significantly lowered the cost of installation. View Full Details »
Published: 20 March 2013
How Big Energy Data Adds Value In Commercial Real Estate
Commercial real estate owners, occupiers and facilities managers in Australia, UK and US are reacting differently to the challenges of strategically managing energy across their portfolios. This report helps stakeholders at all stages of a building’s life cycle understand how big energy data, brought about by the convergence of technology and regulatory trends, is informing and enabling strategic energy management. View Full Details »
Published: 20 March 2013
The Future Of Smart Buildings (Webinar)
The automation of building operations, management and maintenance is defining the smart building market today. The growth in big data is enabling owners, occupiers and facilities managers to increase net operating income, reduce operational expenditure and fine tune their properties environmental sustainability performance. But how will the smart building market evolve and who is defining the future shape of the market? View Full Details »
Published: 15 February 2013
Ecova And Aclara Help Utilities With Customer Engagement
In February 2012, Ecova and Aclara announced a new partnership, focusing on home energy management: Home Energy Plan. The plan joins the competitive home energy management market, a sector that is experiencing a greater integration of software to complement existing services. View Full Details »
Published: 30 November 2012
UK's Green Deal Has Yet To Convince Market Stakeholders
The UK government officially launched the Green Deal, a policy aimed at spurring retrofit activity in the domestic and non-domestic UK real estate market, on October 2, 2012 following a 23 month lead-in period. In total the government has allocated £125 million ($198 million) to incentivize early adoption of the Green Deal. Will the initiatives included in the Green Deal encourage the adoption of energy efficiency measures in the marketplace? View Full Details »
Published: 20 November 2012
Brazil Energy Management Spend 2011-2016
This report provides energy leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the Brazilian market for energy management between 2011 and 2016. The analysis finds that expenditure on energy management will grow from $1.8 billion in 2011 to reach $2.6 billion in 2016. View Full Details »
Published: 15 November 2012
Cisco And Joulex Target IT And Facilities Energy Management
Cisco’s EnergyWise software enables organizations to monitor and manage the energy consumption of Cisco equipment such as Ethernet LAN switches, IP phones, and the equipment of Cisco’s partners that supports the EnergyWise protocol. View Full Details »
Published: 01 November 2012
BuildingIQ Gains Ground In The Commercial Property Market
This case study is one of a series of reports that analyses software and supporting energy services designed for a specific energy domain, such as data centres, retail or commercial offices. Founded in 2009, BuildingIQ – which has 15 million sq ft of real estate space under contract – help clients optimize their real-time portfolio-level energy consumption with its BuildingIQ software offering. View Full Details »
Published: 04 October 2012
Verisae Unlocks Opportunities In The Retail Market
This case study is one in a series of Verdantix reports that analyses software and supporting energy services designed for a specific energy domain, such as data centres, retail or commercial offices. Verisae has established itself as a leading provider of energy management software to the grocery retail sector, delivering significant financial returns and developing its products to meet the requirements of its customers. View Full Details »
Published: 04 October 2012
Opower's Solution Reduces Smart Meter Roll-Out Risks
Following $4 billion of US stimulus funding in 2008, smart meter deployments in the US have taken off and there are now in excess of 27 million meters deployed. One of the features of these roll-out programmes has been the relative lack of customer engagement, so today utilities such as BGE, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) face opposition from their residential customer base where users fail to understand the value of these devices. View Full Details »
Published: 02 October 2012
Germany Energy Management Spend 2011-2016
This report provides energy leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the German market for energy management between 2011 and 2016. The analysis finds that expenditure on energy management will grow from $2.0 billion in 2011 to reach $3.2 billion in 2016. View Full Details »
Published: 20 September 2012
Innovations In Green Office Retrofits
Repositioning existing office properties through energy and environmental retrofits represents an opportunity for market participants operating across a building’s life cycle. The constraints of existing structures demand that project teams invest time to develop their understanding of the underlying building structure as well as its mechanical and electrical systems and controls before engaging in a retrofit project. View Full Details »
Published: 19 September 2012
Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Emerging Economies
The energy value chain is undergoing a multi-decade transformation, creating opportunities for a wide range of energy service firms, technology and software suppliers. Large firms operating in emerging economies are giving energy and energy management issues greater consideration. View Full Details »
Published: 10 September 2012
Infor Shifts From Facility To Enterprise Energy Management
Rising energy costs, increased price volatility, tighter energy and carbon regulations, and increased stakeholder awareness of sustainability elevate the commercial importance of energy management within firms. This report provides Energy Directors, Facilities Directors, Finance Directors and VPs of Sustainability with independent analysis of Infor’s response-to-the-market shift towards strategic energy management. View Full Details »
Published: 08 August 2012
Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Data Tables
The Verdantix Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Data Tables Excel file helps strategy leaders, chief marketing officers and business development directors that operate in the energy equipment, services and software markets to understand the energy management spending patterns of large corporations and the perceptions of their brand in the market. View Full Details »
Published: 25 July 2012
Evolving Customer Usage Patterns Fuel BMS Innovations
This report provides facility managers, occupiers and owners with insights on the latest product innovations and usage trends in the Building Management System (BMS) market. BMS is a mature software offering, first brought to the market in the 1970s. View Full Details »
Published: 02 July 2012
Life Cycle Efficiencies Underpin Growth In BIM Software
This report helps professionals involved in all stages of a building’s life cycle to understand Building Information Modelling (BIM). Traditionally, members of project teams work in silos when developing domestic and non-domestic buildings, and this practice often results in projects missing deadlines and budget targets. View Full Details »
Published: 02 July 2012
US Shale Gas Glut Will Not Derail The Energy Efficiency Case
This report helps individuals such as CSOs, Energy Directors, Facilities Directors and CFOs understand how the growth of US shale gas affects the business case for corporate energy efficiency. Technological advances in drilling techniques in the past decade have triggered an explosion in natural gas production in the US with total output growing from 1.0 trillion cubic feet in 2008 to 6.8 trillion cubic feet in 2011. View Full Details »
Published: 02 July 2012
US Sustainable Technology Services Spend 2011-2015
This report provides sustainability leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and direction of the US market for sustainable technology services spending from 2011 to 2015. Until recently, expenditure by most firms on technology services had focused on cost reduction projects such as improving the energy efficiency of facilities and data centres. View Full Details »
Published: 22 June 2012
Webinar: The Future of Energy Management
The global energy value chain is at the start of a multi-decade transformation. Large energy users in the private and public sectors are responding to the impact of higher and more volatile energy prices, concerns about security of energy supply, new options for decentralized power generation, creative financing instruments for energy efficiency and the potential for innovation at scale through IT platforms. View Full Details »
Published: 19 June 2012
Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Budgets And Priorities
Energy budgets for large firms increasingly contain a component for energy management. This report helps business development directors, chief marketing officers and strategy leaders that operate in the energy equipment, services and software markets to understand how businesses from all sectors around the world approach energy management. View Full Details »
Published: 29 May 2012
Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Brands
The corporate energy management market opportunity attracts a wide range of suppliers – strategy and engineering consultants, technology services providers, automation and control suppliers, and energy management software suppliers. This report helps strategy leaders, chief marketing officers and business development directors that operate in the energy equipment, services and software markets to understand buyers’ perceptions of their brand and to benchmark themselves against competitors. View Full Details »
Published: 29 May 2012
The Future Of Energy Management
The global energy value chain – from fuel inputs to end-user consumption – is undergoing a multi-decade transformation. A shift from centralized to decentralized generation, supply security issues, major policy changes and higher prices impacts market participants: plant managers, facilities directors, building information modellers, heads of energy services firms and most recently, CFOs. View Full Details »
Published: 29 May 2012
Webinar: How The Rise Of Energy Systems Integrators Will Enable Strategic Energy Management
Energy systems integrators – a new breed of energy services firm – will reshape the energy value chain as commercial, industrial and utility customers migrate from tactical management frameworks to more strategic approaches. View Full Details »
Published: 25 May 2012
France Energy And Carbon Efficiency Spend 2010-2015
This report provides sustainability leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of expenditure in the French market on energy and carbon efficiency initiatives between 2010 and 2015. Quantifying sustainable business spend is a challenge as sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 04 April 2012
Webinar: The Future Of The Green Office
What will sustainable offices look like in five years time? Based on analysis of innovations across a building’s lifecycle, we share a realistic view of the building designs, process changes, materials and technologies that will form sustainable offices in 2017. View Full Details »
Published: 02 April 2012
France Sustainable Business Consulting Spend 2010-2015
This report provides sustainable business leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the French sustainable business consulting market between 2010 and 2015. Quantifying spending on sustainable business consulting is a challenge for executives because sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 22 March 2012
UK Strategic Energy Management Spend 2010-2015
This report provides sustainability leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the UK strategic energy management market between 2010 and 2015. Quantifying sustainable business spending is a challenge as sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 21 March 2012
US Launches $4 Billion Energy Efficiency Roadmap
This report helps energy services firms and real estate retrofit specialists understand the Better Building Challenge, a green building policy initiative announced by the White House on December 2, 2011. The Better Buildings Challenge aims to bring together Federal Government’s procurement powers and commitments from 60 private sector property owners to commission $4 billion of energy efficiency projects. View Full Details »
Published: 10 February 2012
Panoptix Targets Building Energy Performance Optimization
This report provides building owners, occupiers and managers with independent analysis of Panoptix, a suite of building energy management software applications and services launched by Johnson Controls in October, 2011. The Panoptix solution is a scalable energy management software and services platform for real estate owners, occupiers and managers. View Full Details »
Published: 01 February 2012
Webinar: How To Finance Corporate Energy Efficiency Programmes
Energy efficiency is one of the cheapest options for firms to mitigate rising energy costs and energy market volatility, comply with regulation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But access to capital is one of the biggest barriers to implementing energy efficiency programmes. View Full Details »
Published: 09 November 2011
Metrus's Energy Efficiency As A Service Benefits BAE Systems
In October 2010 and June 2011, Siemens Building Technologies completed the construction of $1 million and $2.2 million energy efficiency projects in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and Greenlawn, New York, for BAE Systems, the global aerospace and defence contractor. Metrus Energy provided 100% of the initial capital for the project, while BAE Systems pays Metrus Energy an energy efficiency service charge for the savings delivered, under Metrus Energy’s Energy Services Agreement. View Full Details »
Published: 10 October 2011
Marks & Spencer's New Store Cuts Carbon Emissions By 23%
Building stock is a key target for action as firms seek for ways to reduce their environmental impact. This report helps facilities managers, retail occupiers and property developers understand some of the emerging trends in sustainable retail management, occupation and development, taking UK food and clothing retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) as a case study. View Full Details »
Published: 07 October 2011
How To Finance Corporate Energy Efficiency
This report helps energy directors, facilities directors and finance directors to identify financing solutions for energy efficiency investments. Based on interviews with 13 energy management financing experts, Verdantix finds that although firms prefer to self-finance energy efficiency programmes, 10 alternative types of external financing solutions exist. View Full Details »
Published: 04 October 2011
Cisco & Schneider Target Building Energy Optimization
On July 11, 2011, Cisco and Schneider Electric announced a systems integration partnership focused on building energy management. Verdantix selected this subject for a detailed study because this partnership reflects the trend in the energy services market towards a more integrated energy management offering. View Full Details »
Published: 21 July 2011
Canadian Energy & Carbon Efficiency Spend 2009-2014
This report provides sustainability leaders in market facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the Canadian market for energy and carbon efficiency spend between 2009 and 2014. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study as quantifying sustainable business spend is a challenge. One key reason for this is that sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 29 June 2011
Australian Energy & Carbon Efficiency Spend 2009-2014
This report provides sustainability leaders in market facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the Australian market for energy and carbon efficiency spend between 2009 and 2014. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study as quantifying sustainable business spend is a challenge. One key reason for this is that sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 16 June 2011
US Energy & Carbon Efficiency Spend 2009-2014
This report provides sustainability leaders in market facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the US market for energy and carbon efficiency between 2009 and 2014. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study as quantifying sustainable business spend is a challenge. One key reason for this is that sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 14 June 2011
Green Leases Become A Practical Option For The Willing
This report helps building owners and occupiers adopt a robust sustainability action plan when negotiating leases. Contractual engagements between landlord and tenant based on enlightened self interest can enable activities that lower energy spend and carbon emissions thereby producing value adding benefits for all stakeholders. The key barriers to wide scale adoption of green leases are market culture, structure and norms. View Full Details »
Published: 01 June 2011
IBM Acquires TRIRIGA To Boost Smarter Buildings Initiative
On March 22, 2011, IBM announced the acquisition of TRIRIGA, a US-based software supplier of Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS). The acquisition forms part of IBM’s ‘Smarter Buildings’ initiative, which aims to improve operations, reduce operating costs, lower energy consumption, and enhance occupant satisfaction for its clients. View Full Details »
Published: 30 March 2011
UK Carbon & Energy Software Market 2010-2013
The market for carbon and energy management software is difficult to size and forecast because of market immaturity, undisclosed deals, no centralized budget and a host of other factors. This report helps software suppliers, investors, partners and buyers to forecast revenues streams, plan marketing strategies, define sales strategies, and budget accordingly. View Full Details »
Published: 28 March 2011
White House Hopes To Ignite Green Retrofit Market
President Obama’s Better Buildings Initiative, announced on February 3, 2011, aims to address the two major energy related issues faced by the US real estate industry, chiefly that 39% of total US energy consumption and 38% of US carbon dioxide emissions stem from the built environment. The White House estimates that over $40 billion can be saved from energy bills by focusing on building stock energy consumption patterns. View Full Details »
Published: 08 March 2011
Adaptive Buildings Blend Efficiency With Aesthetics
In 2008, engineering firm Buro Happold and design firm Hoberman Associates launched the Adaptive Building Initiative (ABI), a joint venture to design and deliver the next generation of sustainable building technologies. The firm develops building facades and envelopes that adapt to environmental change to reduce the carbon footprint of a building. To date, ABI comprises four proprietary ‘Intelligent Surfaces’. View Full Details »
Published: 07 March 2011
Low Carbon Real Estate Fund Launched In The UK
Launched in 2010, the Threadneedle Low Carbon Workplace Trust (LCW) invests predominately in existing commercial office buildings and repositions them through extensive green refurbishments. The LCW comprises three partners, Threadneedle Property Investment, Stanhope and The Carbon Trust. Where possible, the LCW will partner with tenants in pre-letting agreements, enabling broad based tenant engagement from the beginning of the investment. View Full Details »
Published: 07 March 2011
The Green Deal - Paradigm Shift In Energy Efficiency
The Green Deal aims to facilitate the upgrading of UK building stock, both domestic and non-domestic, through a pay-as-you-save financing model. Legislated through the Energy Bill, which was introduced to the UK parliament in December 2010, the Green Deal will be administered and funded by national utility companies independently or in partnership with third party financial houses. View Full Details »
Published: 21 December 2010
Green Real Estate Retrofit Funds Attract $3.5bn
The number of investment funds focused on sustainable real estate is increasing. Once viewed as a niche within the real estate industry, increased understanding among tenants of sustainability’s co-benefits in terms of cost savings, employee productivity and corporate image have helped drive the issue. View Full Details »
Published: 23 November 2010
Greenprint Unveils Real Estate Carbon Index
Greenprint Foundation, created in mid-2009, is an innovative alliance of real estate investors and occupiers committed to increasing energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions, while enhancing property values across the global real estate industry. View Full Details »
Published: 03 November 2010
Green Quadrant Carbon & Energy Management Software
The global market for carbon and energy software is intensely competitive — buyers choose from over 100 suppliers. To help buyers save time, save money and reduce risk in their selection process this Verdantix Green Quadrant report compares the 28 software applications that pre-qualify as a potential fit for $1 billion revenue firms. View Full Details »
Published: 01 November 2010
IBM Blends Smart IT With Sustainable Infrastructure
IBM has reframed its activities focused on energy efficiency, smart grid, electric vehicles and renewable energy in a new market strategy, announced in October 2010, that focuses on sustainable infrastructure. View Full Details »
Published: 12 October 2010
Best Practices For Building Management Systems
Resurgent energy prices, national legislation and corporate brand risks have bought energy efficiency to the forefront of private and public sector climate change and sustainability strategies. For many firms, reducing building electricity consumption is a top priority initiative and the operation of an efficient Building Management System (BMS) is often an integral element of the project. View Full Details »
Published: 26 May 2010
The Energy Efficiency Imperative
Increasing oil and electricity prices, the hidden cost of carbon, growing risks from energy supply disruption and board-level climate change compliance issues make energy efficiency a new imperative for the CFO. Verdantix analysis of energy and carbon trends indicates that finance executives need a multi-year energy efficiency plan to maximise cost savings, help the CEO meet carbon reduction goals and make financial decisions based on total cost of ownership. View Full Details »
Published: 07 December 2009
Total Portfolio: Energy Efficiency Solutions
This Total Portfolio report clarifies the sustainability benefits, business value and maturity of 30 energy efficiency solutions. The solutions are plotted on three product lifecycle curves based on a fact-based assessment of each solution’s maturity, investment case, future prospects and sustainability benefits. View Full Details »
Published: 24 June 2009
Innovation: Tesco's Eco-Store Strategy
In January 2007 Tesco’s CEO, Sir Terry Leahy, announced a climate change strategy which included cutting carbon emissions from stores by 50 per cent by 2020 relative to 2006. After 2 years of trial projects, the firm recently announced the opening of its first fully-fledged eco-store in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. View Full Details »
Published: 23 January 2009