Multiple benefits
Energy efficiency and energy management projects are usually done to reduce energy costs and greenhouse emissions. But many studies have shown that the non-energy benefits of energy efficiency projects are often worth more than the energy savings!
Other benefits beyond health and safety include:
- Improved comfort, in terms of temperature and air quality
- Higher staff productivity in commercial situations
- Higher manufacturing productivity in industrial situations
- Higher reliability of equipment
- Lower maintenance
- Longer equipment lifetime
The International Energy Agency (IEA) performed the definitive study on multiple benefits (LINK) and The ACEEEPPEEstudy shows examples with non-energy benefits up to ten times the value of the energy savings. On average they found the extra benefits were worth about three times the value of the energy.
