GRESB has released “Know Your Grid: How Cleaner Electricity Shapes Real Estate Capital Planning.” The new research examines how the interaction between buildings and grid carbon intensity trajectories can inform capital planning across real estate portfolios.
The study addresses a practical investment question: How much of an asset’s future decarbonization can be delivered by changes in the electricity grid, and where will additional investment in efficiency, electrification and on-site clean energy be most impactful?
To answer it, the study brings together two asset-level datasets within GRESB for the first time: GRESB Real Estate Assessment asset-level data on building energy use and performance, comprising more than 800,000 annual asset records, and Asset Impact’s forward-looking data on more than 150,000 power plants across 217 countries and territories. Together, the datasets are used to model how grid decarbonization and asset-level improvements could aff
