At the Global Renewables Hub today, private sector leaders highlighted concrete examples of how energy efficiency cuts costs, creates jobs, and strengthens supply-chain resilience. Esther Finidori of BCSE member Schneider Electric and Mario Giordano of BCSE supporter Signify shared that in a world powered by renewables, we need the asset flexibility of energy optimization. Energy efficiency is a proven technology; the key is to keep providing and collecting data to guarantee the benefits to investors.

Additional takeaways:

• The real change/benefits come when companies integrate energy efficiency into their business models. This is how we can scale.
• The private sector must make it easy for consumers to save money and decrease emissions by building up the infrastructure/workforce that deliver these solutions.
• Being able to coordinate with entire buildings is key.
• Everyone must have access to the data in the building. This requires organizational change to adapt to how buildings of the future will be maintained.
• In a world powered by renewables, we need the asset flexibility of energy optimization.
• Efficiency is a tool for abundance.