Financial Considerations in Green Retrofitting for Optimal Energy Performance

Abstract

This chapter focuses on how to correctly assess the financial feasibility of a retrofitting project using different indicators and methods. It also emphasizes the advantages and limits of each method offering the reader the ability to choose the most appropriate method(s) for each retrofitting project. In its last part, the chapter explains how the financial feasibility can be integrated in a broader set of criteria considered for retrofitting the capital budgeting decision-making process. The chapter also includes examples of computing the financial indicators for green retrofitting evaluation. It thus provides the readers with the opportunity to understand how the capital budgeting evaluation methods can be used in practice and correctly interpret their results.