Glossary

The term Green Premium refers to the additional investments required to operate buildings sustainably and align them with climate neutrality. This includes expenditures for energy retrofits, the integration of renewable energies, digital transparency, and measures to implement an ESG strategy. The Green Premium thus illustrates the level of resources needed to achieve sustainability goals and measurably improve the energy efficiency of a real estate portfolio.

For the building sector, the Green Premium highlights that sustainable buildings are more economical in the long term: they generate lower energy and operating costs, comply more easily with regulatory requirements, and often achieve higher rents and sales prices. Properties with a strong “Green Value", meaning good energy performance and verifiable ESG compliance, increasingly benefit from higher market demand and avoid the risk of becoming stranded assets, thereby preventing value losses due to insufficient sustainability or rising regulatory requirements (Brown Discount).

aedifion helps owners of commercial properties achieve a positive Green Premium by creating transparency around energy consumption, automatically identifying inefficient operations, and optimizing technical systems using artificial intelligence. At the same time, the platform provides reliable data for sustainability reporting. This enables the reduction of energy and CO₂ costs, improvement of operational efficiency, and targeted enhancement of a building’s sustainability value - key factors for realizing Green Premium effects.