{"id":5276,"date":"2025-04-08T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:50:12","slug":"can-district-energy-system-issuers-improve-their-credit-profiles-by-lessening-their-environmental-impact-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/can-district-energy-system-issuers-improve-their-credit-profiles-by-lessening-their-environmental-impact-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Can District Energy System Issuers Improve Their Credit Profiles by Lessening Their Environmental Impact? District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morningstar DBRS has published a commentary that I think might interest you: \u201cCan District Energy System Issuers Improve Their Credit Profiles by Lessening Their Environmental Impact?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>District Energy Systems (DES)s generally operate as natural monopolies and provide an essential service to their customers. Customers connected to a DES benefit from high reliability and greater convenience than if they were responsible for providing their own heating or cooling; as well, disconnecting from a DES requires customers to spend significant upfront capital expenditure to acquire their own equipment. Because of these advantages, DESs generally have high customer retention rates, which, in our view, provide DESs with strong credit profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Because energy is one of a DES\u2019s largest costs, improving competitiveness could also result in environmental benefits from DESs reducing their carbon emissions. This commentary outlines some technologies that could potentially improve a DES\u2019s cost competitiveness and environmental benefits all while improving its credit risk profile.<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>District Energy Systems (DES)s generally operate as natural monopolies and provide an essential service to their customers. Customers connected to a DES benefit from high reliability and greater convenience than if they were responsible for providing their own heating or cooling; as well, disconnecting from a DES requires customers to spend significant upfront capital expenditure to acquire their own equipment. Because of these advantages, DESs generally have high customer retention rates, which, in our view, provide DESs with strong credit profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Because energy is one of a DES\u2019s largest costs, improving competitiveness could also result in environmental benefits from DESs reducing their carbon emissions. This commentary outlines some technologies that could potentially improve a DES\u2019s cost competitiveness and environmental benefits all while improving its credit risk profile.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbrs.morningstar.com\/research\/451483\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <!-- WP Biographia v4.0.0 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-biographia-container-around\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;border: 1px solid #000000\">\n<div class=\"wp-biographia-pic\" style=\"height:100px;width:100px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"wp-biographia-avatar avatar-100 photo lazyload\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" data-src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5166685176944056362510b760db7c1e?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-biographia-text\">\n<h3>About <a href=\"https:\/\/informedinfrastructure.com\/author\/parul-dubey\/\" title=\"Parul Dubey\">Parul Dubey<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-biographia-links\"><small><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-biographia-list wp-biographia-list-icon\">\n<li><a href=\"mailto:pdubey@v1-media.com\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Send Parul Dubey Mail\" class=\"wp-biographia-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"wp-biographia-item-icon lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/informedinfrastructure.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-biographia\/public\/icons\/square\/mail.png\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informedinfrastructure.com\/author\/parul-dubey\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"More Posts By Parul Dubey\" class=\"wp-biographia-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"wp-biographia-item-icon lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/informedinfrastructure.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-biographia\/public\/icons\/square\/wordpress.png\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- WP Biographia v4.0.0 --><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/informedinfrastructure.com\/100118\/can-district-energy-system-issuers-improve-their-credit-profiles-by-lessening-their-environmental-impact-district\/\">Can District Energy System Issuers Improve Their Credit Profiles by Lessening Their Environmental Impact? District<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/informedinfrastructure.com\">Informed Infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morningstar DBRS has published a commentary that I think might interest you: \u201cCan District Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mywatchseries.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}