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DOE Issues New Energy Savings Performance Contracts Solicitation

April 3, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

The Department of Energy released a request for proposals solicitation for the implementation of energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) at US federal sites worldwide. The intent is to award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts to multiple vendors with a total contract ceiling of $55 billion. DOE is committed to ... Read more »

Schneider Helps School Districts Save Millions

April 1, 2015August 2, 2019 by Karen Henry

Schneider Electric has executed a 20-year energy savings performance contract (ESPC) with Lawrence Country Schools in Moulton, Alabama, to help the school district fund energy upgrades in its 19 buildings. The upgrades are expected to reduce annual district energy consumption by 25 percent, totaling $11.7 million in energy savings. Among ... Read more »

Ameresco Retrofits 2,000 Apartments for Housing Authority

March 16, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Ameresco recently commenced construction on a project with the Syracuse Housing Authority (SHA) in upstate New York via an energy savings performance contract (ESPC). With the ESPC, the project will be financed using savings from the new lighting, attic and wall insulation, water conservation measures, temperature controls and other improvements. ... Read more »

Hospital Installs CHP System

March 16, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

York Teaching Hospital in the UK began operation of its new combined heat and power energy system. The CHP system is expected to save $19.7 million during its 15-year lifecycle, and all savings have been guaranteed by Vital Energi under an energy savings performance contract (ESPC). The $7 million project ... Read more »

Federal Bureau of Prisons Selects Constellation for $45M Energy Efficiency, Solar Project

February 20, 2015August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Constellation has been awarded a contract by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to implement $45 million in water and energy conservation measures and install a 2 MW solar generation project at the Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Fla. Under the terms of the energy savings performance contract (ESPC), the conservation ... Read more »

Government Uses Performance Contracting for Lighting Control

February 16, 2015August 2, 2019 by Karen Henry

The federal government is increasingly incorporating advanced lighting control systems in its energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) as part of its effort to reduce energy use in federal facilities, reports the Federal Times. Lighting consumes a big chunk of the total electricity used in a commercial building – nearly 38 ... Read more »

Energy Service Companies Offered Access to eProject Builder

February 11, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

eProject Builder (ePB) is a free web-based system for entering and tracking energy service performance contract (ESPC) data through the life of a project. ePB was developed and is being maintained by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on behalf of DOE. The initial version of ePB, which went live in June ... Read more »

Navy Explores Seawater Air Conditioning

February 3, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Makai Ocean Engineering has completed a contract funded by the Office of Naval Research through the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute to research and develop Seawater Air Conditioning (SWAC) technology. SWAC is a method to provide air conditioning to buildings using a district cooling system that uses an available cold water ... Read more »

Energy Efficiency Saves School District $30,000 per Year

January 26, 2015August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Schneider Electric completed an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) for Tenino School District in Washington, which will help save the district $30,000 in energy and operational costs annually over 15 years. Funded in part through a $1 million Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) energy grant, the school district ... Read more »

McKinstry Gets Pre-Qualified in Nevada

January 15, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

McKinstry has become prequalified as an Energy Service Company (ESCO) in the state of Nevada. Nevada’s list of independent contractors is licensed by the Public Works Division of the Nevada Department of Administration to provide Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) and assist Nevada’s state agencies, cities and higher-education institutions in ... Read more »

City Saves More Energy than Expected

January 12, 2015August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

In the first year of a 20-year energy savings performance contract (ESPC) with Johnson Controls, the city of Wilkes-Barre, Penn., saved $549,066, reports CitizensVoice. The savings is $108,000 more than was projected by Johnson Controls. The city council approved a $5.9 million loan in 2012 to fund the upgrades. After ... Read more »

Retirement Facility Embarks on $3.2M Energy Upgrade

January 6, 2015August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Cathedral Village, a Philadelphia based retirement community, has hired New Jersey based energy management and combined heat and power (CHP) specialist ENER-G Rudox, in conjunction with Blue Sky Power, MCFA Global, and Ray Angelini, to design, engineer, construct, and finance a sustainable makeover of its facility. The $3.2 million energy ... Read more »

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