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This page provides links to market data pertaining to green and high-performance buildings. Categories include the market density of labeled/rated buildings, prevailing energy prices, and locally available financial incentives for making improvements.
While numerous sources are available related to green property features, currently, most real-estate data is neither standardized nor consistently recorded. Hence, compiling data related to the local market share of properties with green features might be time consuming. Therefore, the level of research acceptable for each particular assignment can vary greatly.
In tandem with real-estate data, it can be informative to look at other contextual information such as resource prices and climate, together with metrics of green and high-performance building activities in the area. The following pair of charts compare a handful of such metrics for two locations. Differences in conditions are readily evident. For context, all values are indexed to US averages (which have the value of 1.00). Sources and derivation of metrics is documented here.
Market density of green and energy-efficient buildings: Residential
Note: The table tabulates penetration rates for leading programs and databases; many more buildings are compliant but not necessarily certified.
Market density of green and energy-efficient buildings: Non-residential
Note: The table tabulates penetration rates for leading programs and databases; many more buildings are compliant but not necessarily certified.
Other compilations
- The U.S. Department of Energy's High Performance Buildings Database offers in-depth case studies of 130 high performing non-residential buildings.
- The Urban Land Institute's Greenprint Initiative chronicles green building development by 33 member companies.
- The Green Multiple Listings Service
- ACEEE utility program scorecard and ranking (all 50 states, updated yearly)
- Global data from BuildingRating.org
National building energy datasets and protocols
- Residential Energy Consumption Survey - The U.S. Department of Energy periodically conducts a statistically representative survey of housing characteristics and associated energy consumption and expenditures.
- Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey --The U.S. Department of Energy periodically conducts a statistically representative survey of housing characteristics and associated energy consumption and expenditures.
- BEDES - Building Energy Data Exchange Specification
- The Building Energy Data Exchange Specification is designed to support analysis of the measured energy performance of commercial, multifamily, and residential buildings, by providing a common data format, definitions, and an exchange protocol for building characteristics, efficiency measures, and energy use.
- SEED - Standard Energy Efficiency Data Platform
- The Standard Energy Efficiency Data (SEED) Platform is a software application that helps organizations easily manage data on the energy performance of large groups of buildings. Users can combine data from multiple sources, clean and validate it, and share the information with others. The software application provides an easy, flexible, and cost-effective method to improve the quality and availability of data to help demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of energy efficiency, to implement programs, and to target investment activity.
- BPD - Building Performance Database
- The BPD compares groups of buildings based on use, location, size, and equipment type. The BPD can analyze multiple buildings at a portfolio level, based on actuarial methods to assess performance and investment return risk. The analytical tools quantify the energy use, financial performance, and risk profiles of specific building improvements. The database contains over 750,000 buildings and is growing.
Resource Prices
Energy
- Electricity
- Natural gas
- Heating oil
Water
- Extensive rates for utilities in 8 southeastern states from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Costs of water (as of 2013) for households in 30 major U.S. cities
- Rate data from American Water Works Association
Electricity-related emissions to the atmosphere
About three-quarters of a typical building's "carbon footprint" is due to the electricity it uses. However, the amounts of greenhouse-gas emissions and criteria emissions in electricity vary widely around the country, and even within states. For example, power in parts of the Pacific Northwest is largely hydro-electric based (no combustion-related pollution), while that in parts of the Northern Tier is largely based on coal. The USEPA's "eGRID" database can be used to identify the carbon content of power from any utility. This file provides a relatively concise summary (by region and state) of the emissions per megawatt hour (thousand kilowatt-hours) of electricity production.
Financial incentives
- Incentives for energy efficiency (federal, state, local, utility)
- Financial incentives for renewable energy (federal, state, local, utility, non-profit)
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