Last week, I spoke with a facilities manager who'd been putting off a building electrification study for over a year. Not because she didn't care about decarbonization—quite the opposite. She just couldn't justify the time and budget it would take to get reliable answers.
Sound familiar?
You're trying to make smart decisions about your building's future. Should you replace that aging gas boiler with a heat pump? What about the water heaters? Will the numbers actually work? The questions are straightforward. Getting the answers shouldn't require weeks of analysis and a small fortune in consulting fees.
That's exactly why we built our new Building Electrification Study feature for InverseAudit.
Here's What We Keep Hearing
Every conversation with building owners and energy consultants follows a similar pattern. The pressure to electrify is real—from regulations, from corporate sustainability goals, from tenants who care about carbon footprints. But the traditional path to understanding what electrification actually means for your building? It's been unnecessarily complicated.
You'd need to hire specialists, wait for site visits, wade through complex modeling assumptions, and still wonder if the results truly reflect your building's unique characteristics. By the time you get answers, equipment has failed, or budgets have been allocated elsewhere.
We thought: there has to be a better way.
What If Electrification Studies Were Actually Easy?
That question drove everything we built into this new feature. We started with what InverseAudit already does brilliantly—creating calibrated energy models from your utility data in about 25 minutes, no site visit required. Then we asked: what if you could use that same calibrated baseline to instantly evaluate every electrification option available?
Now you can.
Want to see what happens if you replace your gas heating system with an air-source heat pump? Select it from our library of current market equipment. Curious about electric water heaters versus heat pump water heaters? Compare them side by side. Wondering whether to go all-in on electrification or take a phased approach? Model both scenarios and see the real numbers.
The platform evaluates:
- All-electric HVAC systems currently on the market
- Air-source heat pumps for heating and cooling
- Electric and heat pump domestic water heaters
What This Actually Looks Like
Let me paint you a picture. You upload your building's utility data—something you probably already have sitting in a spreadsheet. You answer a handful of questions about your HVAC system. Twenty-five minutes later, you have a calibrated baseline model of your building's current energy performance.
Now comes the interesting part.
You select the electrification measures you're considering. Maybe it's replacing gas heating with heat pumps. Maybe it's going fully electric. The platform runs the analysis and shows you:
- How your energy consumption will change
- What it means for your operating costs
- The carbon emissions you'll reduce
- What electrical infrastructure upgrades might you need
- How long will it take to pay back
All based on your building's actual performance data, not generic assumptions about buildings "like yours."
You can compare scenarios, adjust assumptions, and generate reports—all in the time it used to take just to schedule an initial consultant meeting.
Why This Matters Right Now
Here's the thing: the window for making thoughtful electrification decisions is closing. New regulations are coming.
The question isn't whether to think about electrification—it's whether you'll have good information when you need to make the decision.
What we've learned from hundreds of virtual energy audits is that buildings are unique. The efficiency measure that works brilliantly in one building might be the wrong choice next door. The only way to know what makes sense for your building is to model your building specifically, with real data.
That's what made virtual energy auditing so powerful. And now, that same approach works for electrification studies.
This Changes the Conversation
Remember that facilities manager I mentioned? She ran her electrification study in InverseAudit last month. The results surprised her—in a good way. She found that a phased approach she hadn't considered would deliver better ROI while still meeting her organization's carbon goals. More importantly, she had the data she needed to get funding approved.
Here's What This Means for You
If you're an energy consultant who's been manually modeling electrification scenarios, you can now deliver results faster while improving accuracy.
The platform gives you everything you need:
- No site visits required—just your utility data
- Calibrated models that reflect your building's real performance
- Comprehensive equipment library covering current market options
- Clear comparisons between fossil fuel and electric alternatives
- Professional reports ready for stakeholders and incentive applications
Prefer a Turnkey Solution?
Not everyone wants to run their own analysis—and that's completely understandable. If you'd rather have experts handle your building electrification study from start to finish, Inverse Energy offers comprehensive turnkey electrification consulting services. Our team will conduct the entire study for you, delivering actionable recommendations tailored to your building and goals. Whether you want to DIY with InverseAudit or have us do it for you, we've got you covered.
What's Next?
Building electrification is happening. The only question is whether you'll navigate it with good data or rough guesses. Ready to start your building electrification study? InverseAudit's Building Electrification Study feature is available now, or let our team handle it with turnkey consulting services.
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