By Bennett Fisher, CEO and co-Founder, Retroficiency

While other clean-tech markets continue to face challenges, the building-energy-efficiency market is marching onward and upward.

Driving efficiency in our existing building stock is the nearest term path to significantly reducing energy consumption. In fact, a recent Deutsche Bank report estimated $1 trillion in savings opportunities through building efficiency.

While we aren’t yet tapping the full potential of building efficiency, or anywhere close to it, the tide is quickly turning with the infusion of data into energy-efficiency evaluation.

Data, combined with software to make sense of it all, is driving new trends in areas that have historically served as roadblocks, or have not provided as much benefit as they otherwise could.