"Show Me The Money" (Confessions of an Energy Manager for Real Estate Properties)

Abstract

I suppose my altruism is
suspect, because when it
comes to energy conservation
I have to confess that I am not
motivated by concern for the
environment. Not that I am
some rapacious strip-miner,
just that after almost thirty
years in the industry I’ve
never seen a client spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a system
upgrade solely to help prevent global warming.
And lately I’ve noticed things have evolved even beyond that
point, and come more directly to what I call bottom-line motivation.