Strategic Focus: Building The Business Case For Energy Resilience
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Executive Summary
Frequent energy price volatility, supply uncertainty and grid instability are forcing real estate asset owners and occupiers to manage energy risk more proactively. Energy resilience has risen up the corporate agenda, as firms seek to protect business operations, assets and revenue from energy-related risks and their economic impacts, ensuring sustained energy availability and reliability. This report explores how to build a credible business case for energy resilience, and how this approach varies based on building type, geography and other business and environmental factors.About the Authors
Ryan McGurk
Industry Analyst
Ryan is an Industry Analyst at Verdantix. He has extensive experience in delivering energy services, including both strategic advisory and consulting projects, as well as in t...
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Claire Stephens
Research Director
Claire Stephens is a Research Director at Verdantix, leading research into technologies and services shaping the real estate and the built environment, encompassing ...
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