New Tools for Energy Efficient Buildings
Most building owners and operators face twin, interrelated pressures to improve the energy efficiency in their buildings: energy costs and carbon emissions. There’s good news on this front - globally, buildings have made some solid progress at lowering their energy...
ESG = ROI
There is a lot of debate going on right now about “ESG” – environment, social and governance, an umbrella term that covers business attempts to become more sustainable, inclusive, and accountable. There are critics of ESG who argue that companies should...
SHIFT Named New Brunswick’s “Sustainable Exporter of the Year”
At an awards gala in Fredericton on June 1, SHIFT Energy received the “Sustainable Exporter of the Year” award at the 2023 New Brunswick Export Awards. This is a new award that recognizes businesses that have leveraged sustainable practices to enable growth from an...
Blackstone Energy Services and SHIFT Energy Announce Strategic Partnership To Accelerate Building Decarbonization
Blackstone Energy Services, an integrated carbon and energy services provider to organizations seeking to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption, and SHIFT Energy, whose Machine Learning-powered energy management systems curbs energy consumption and emissions,...
The Business Case for Sustainability in Commercial Real Estate
SHIFT team members recently attended the “ESG in CRE” course offered by REALPAC. Over three jam-packed days, we dug in deep on emerging trends in Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) in the commercial real estate (CRE) sector. Of course, there are those who...
SHIFT Energy Helping Cadillac Fairview Build A More Sustainable Future
CF's iconic Toronto-Dominion Centre. (Courtesy Cadillac Fairview) Cadillac Fairview (CF) recently selected SHIFT Energy to implement our AI-powered energy intelligence platform to cut energy consumption and carbon emissions across ten Toronto-area buildings,...
Cadillac Fairview Selects SHIFT Energy to Boost Building Energy Performance and Cut Carbon Emissions
SHIFT Energy is pleased to announce it has been selected by Cadillac Fairview (CF) to implement its AI-powered energy intelligence platform to cut energy consumption and carbon emissions across ten Toronto-area buildings, representing 7.4 million square feet of office...
Defusing the “Climate Time Bomb”
A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted, once again, the urgency to addressing greenhouse gas emissions. The average global temperature has risen faster since 1970 than any other prior period, and now stands 1.1...
Greening Healthcare
Healthcare is an energy intensive undertaking. Most hospitals operate 24/7, 365 days per year, with specific heating and cooling requirements for patient care, clinical procedures and more. That reality makes the healthcare system one of the largest emitters of CO2 in...
Cutting Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions at Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital
The healthcare system is one of the largest CO2 emitters in the world, putting out GHGs at a rate 2.5 times higher than the commercial real estate sector. Add it up and it totals about 4.4 percent of global emissions. In the United States, emissions from healthcare...