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    Brookfield committing to Decarbonize Electricity powering its U.S. Office Real Estate by 2026

    June 30, 2023
    The company's decision is expected to reduce the total direct carbon emissions by approximately 80 percent from its U.S. portfolio. Brookfield's buildings will be powered by water, solar, wind and nuclear sources
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    Brookfield Properties has announced that more than 65 percent of its office space will be shifted to zero-emissions electricity by 2024 and the remaining part will be powered over the following two years.

    The company's decision is expected to reduce the total direct carbon emissions by approximately 80 percent from its U.S. portfolio. Brookfield's buildings will be powered by water, solar, wind and nuclear sources.

    Last year, Brookfield announced that one of its Manhattan skyscrapers will be powered with renewable energy from upstate New York.

    The step will not only help Brookfield achieve its energy goals but will also increase demand for renewable power, according to Ben Brown, Managing Partner at Brookfield Real Estate.

    "Not only are we making the buildings greener, we're incentivizing further development of renewable power generation," Brown said. "Over the next couple of years, this will go from being a 'nice to have' and what people would like, to just a natural requirement."

    The release does not detail how Brookfield will directly power operations with low- and zero-carbon generation resources. In the corporate world, some power purchase agreements act more as offsets for electricity use, working to match a facility’s energy footprint with an equal amount of clean energy enabled on the grid.

    Brookfield Properties has more than 70 million square feet of office properties across the U.S. Most of those are in cities such as New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Denver.

    Worldwide, the real estate firm owns more than 840 properties totaling more 300 million square feet of global commercial office space. Those include 27,000 multifamily units and 133 million square feet of global retail space.

    Brookfield Properties develops and operates real estate investments on behalf of parent firm Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Corp.. The parent Brookfield holds more than $725 billion worth of assets under management. 

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    EnergyTech Staff

    Rod Walton is senior editor for EnergyTech.com. He has spent 14 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist.

    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    He can be reached at [email protected]. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids.

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.