Mitsidi Contributes to New Advances in Energy Benchmarking

Mitsidi has taken an important step towards helping Brazil face the current energy crisis, with the completion of another stage of a project that aims to increase transparency in energy consumption in the country.

The project, carried out in conjunction with the Brazilian Council for Sustainable Construction (CBCS), in partnership with Eletrobras/Procel and the British Embassy, had as its immediate objective to develop benchmarks of energy consumption for corporate offices. Benchmarks are indicators that allow a building's energy performance to be compared with industry media, and are essential for the development of instruments to reduce energy consumption, such as energy efficiency building labels.

This project is part of a broader program to create an energy use label for constructed buildings, which already has a name: DEO (Operational Energy Performance in Buildings). This label will undermine the actual savings achieved by the consumer, rather than just assessing the savings potential of a project.

The results of the project were recently presented, on March 4, 2015, by Edward Borgstein, founder of Mitsidi, at the Eletrobras headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, to a multisector audience that included representatives of public entities such as BNDES, large companies that manage high-end corporate real estate, companies in the energy sector, members of the academic and scientific community, among others.

The achievement was celebrated, but the work continues, with the objective of creating conditions for the Operational Energy Performance in Buildings (DEO) label to be put into practice, not only for corporate buildings, but for various types of buildings, through consumption indicators, benchmarks and robust energy audit and assessment methodologies.

See also the page on the CBCS website and the Procel article about the initiative:

CBCS - Benchmarking Energy

Procel Info

Click here to also see the benchmarking tool that was created in 2014 for bank branches.