When is it the right call to improve the energy efficiency of existing building systems, or upgrade and electrify them?
Though electrification is important to reduce carbon emissions, electrifying buildings is not straightforward. Factors like cost, existing infrastructure, short-term impact (and we’ll say it again: cost!) can keep building owners from going all-electric.
In this episode, Buildings + Beyond co-host Robb Aldrich catches up with Ryan Merkin, Vice President of Business Development at BlocPower (and a SWA alum). They discuss the eight areas Ryan considers when deciding to focus on efficiency vs. electrification:
- Building height
- Planned capital expenditures (CapEx)
- Current system condition and remaining useful life
- Heating energy source: oil and electrical resistance
- Existing systems: Individual/unitized vs. central
- Packaged terminal ACs (PTACs) and through-wall sleeve ACs
- Regulatory drivers (LL97, ESG, etc.) and incentives
- Metering: who pays what now; who would pay in the future
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