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In their groundbreaking study released today<\/a>, The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation and Living Cities have made a terrific contribution to a critically important enterprise: addressing prospective lenders\u2019 uncertainty about energy efficiency projects.\u00a0 The study, which was carried out by Steve Winter Associates and HR&A Advisors, systematically evaluated the results of energy efficiency projects in about 231 multifamily residential buildings (primarily affordable housing) containing over 21,000 dwelling units in New York City.\u00a0 Their finding?\u00a0 Portfolio-wide, the building modifications saved 19% in fuel costs and 7% in electricity.\u00a0 Furthermore, the projects contributed to the economic well-being of the communities in which they were located, by creating jobs locally while simultaneously making housing more affordable.<\/p>\n

Deutsche Bank and Living Cities\u2019 contribution is especially vital because they have provided a clear path from their findings to lenders\u2019 efforts to evaluate new opportunities.\u00a0 In addition to proving that savings were real, the study demonstrated correlations between results and upfront projections \u2013 giving lenders a basis for relying on engineers\u2019 upfront projections in projects where the predicted savings are key to loan repayment.\u00a0 Among the important contributions arising from this study is a lender tool \u2013 an approach to \u201ccapping\u201d high fuel savings projections \u2013 that gives prospective lenders a means to discount projections that are higher than what is typically achieved in similar projects to bring the projections in line with typical results, while leaving lowball projections as they are.\u00a0 The study found that such a \u201ccapping\u201d methodology greatly improved fuel realization rates (actual energy savings compared to projections) and portfolio performance, without needlessly shrinking the market (which would be the result if all projections were discounted, rather than only those that are above the trend line).<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s successes also shed light on where further work is needed. \u00a0For example, as appealing as it is to focus on the top-line finding that energy efficiency work really does save energy and money in a predictable manner<\/em>, a robust data set comparing projections and results in affordable multifamily buildings in New York should leave the market hungry for similar data about other building types\/regions.\u00a0 In addition, the \u201ccapping\u201d tool, while likely very helpful to lenders given the state of the world today, does not begin to make sense of the diversity of approaches used by today\u2019s energy auditors even where some approaches may be demonstrably more or less reliable than others.\u00a0 Even with the \u201ccapping\u201d methodology limiting the damage that might be done by very high outliers, considerably variation in realization rates persists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here at EDF, our Investor Confidence Project, currently underway, brings together engineers, prospective lenders, and investor parties to get inside the black box that is the engineering analysis of a building \u2013 from modeling of the status quo, to retrofit recommendations and savings projections, to monitoring, verifying and assuring efficiencies post-retrofit \u2013 to identify best practices, as well as ways of thinking about atypical methodologies and how they should affect lender confidence (for better or for worse).\u00a0 That project begins with energy efficiency in office buildings market, but this disconnect between building science perspectives and lender needs will need to be broached for all common building types throughout the marketplace.\u00a0 By emphasizing the need for methodological consensus and rigorously evaluating the effectiveness of actual practice, projects such as our ICP project and the comprehensive analysis of multifamily projects performed by DB\/Living Cities set the stage for the increase in energy efficiency lending that is needed for building owners and occupants to stop the waste and jump-start the GHG reductions we all need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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