Achieving Deeper Energy Savings in Federal Energy Performance Contracts
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
Legislation requires each agency of the US federal government to reduce the aggregate energy use index of its buildings by 30% by 2015, with respect to a 2003 baseline. The declining availability of appropriated funding means that energy performance contracting will be key to achieving this goal. Historically however, energy performance contracts have been able to reduce energy use by only about 20% over baseline. Achieving 30% energy reductions using performance contracting will require new approaches and a specific focus on achieving higher energy savings, both by ESCOs and by agencies. This paper describes some of the ways federal agencies are meeting this challenge, and presents results from the efforts of one agency the US General Services Administration -- to achieve deeper energy savings in conventional energy savings performance contracts.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Work for Others (WFO)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1185676
- Journal Information:
- ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 121; ISSN 0001-2505
- Publisher:
- ASHRAECopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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