Energy Management and Shareholder Value

This executive briefing offers businesses increased evidence on and successful practices for linking energy efficiency and shareholder value. It details the growing body of evidence showing that companies that strategically manage their energy use across their various divisions and facilities can enjoy bottom-line benefits of interest to investors. They include reduced operating costs, increased productivity and sales, reduced regulatory costs, reduced downtime, and enhanced image.

Energy use represents one of the largest operating expenses in manybusinesses, and can be a source of bottom-line opportunity. Forexample, in commercial office buildings, reducing energy use 30-percentis equivalent to increasing net operating income and building assetvalue by 5-percent. Retailers with more efficient lighting haveexperienced significantly increased sales while others have seen loweremployee turnover.