Consulting-Specifying Engineer - January 2009 - (Page 8) In The News DOE awards 16 sustainability project contracts T NEWS AT A GLANCE • To help recognize young engineers and to improve engineering recruitment in your company or organization, we encourage you to nominate a talented young engineer. Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine is looking for 40 of the most innovative engineers under the age of 40. Nomination forms are due Jan. 30, and supporting materials are due Feb. 10. Nominate an engineer at www.csemag.com/40under40. • The Fifth Annual 2009 Consulting-Specifying Engineer Product of the Year contest has begun. The premier award for new products in the HVAC, fire, electrical, and plumbing engineering markets has been moved online. Visit www.csemag.com/poy to check out the newly updated product categories and entry forms. Entries are due Feb. 20 at 5 p.m. EVENTS • Jan. 26-28: AHR Expo: Equipment, systems, components, and technology for the HVAC/R industry, McCormick Place, Chicago • March 1-3: AMCA Technical Seminar and Spring Meeting, FOR MORE NEWS STORIES GO TO: Orlando, Fla. he Dept. of Energy (DOE) recently award- paid by the agency’s appropriated funds. The ed 16 new Indefinite Delivery Indefinite contractor guarantees the energy improvements Quantity (IDIQ) Energy Savings Per- will generate savings. Moreover, the aggregate formance Contracts annual amount of payThe new contracts provide for a (ESPCs). The contracts ments to the contracmaximum individual contract value of tor and payments for could result in up to $5 billion over the life of the contract. utilities cannot exceed $80 billion in energy efficiency, renewable the amount that the energy, and water conservation projects at fedagency would have paid for utilities without an erally owned buildings and facilities. ESPC. After the contract ends, all continuing cost The ESPCs will help meet the federal governsavings accrue to the agency. ment’s energy efficiency, water conservation, The new contracts provide for a maximum and renewable energy goals. The U.S. governindividual contract value of $5 billion over the ment is the largest single user of energy in the life of the contract, eliminate technology speUnited States. The awards represent a commitcific restrictions, and allow federal agencies to ment to saving energy, reducing federal energy use these contracts in federal buildings, nationcosts, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and ally and internationally. In addition, ESPCs now incorporating more efficient technologies for include a greater emphasis on renewable eneruse in government facilities. gy and water conservation projects. “This set of awards will ensure that federal The new contracts were awarded to the folagencies have access to powerful tools for alter- lowing energy service companies (ESCOs): native financing at a scale that is needed to • Ameresco Inc., Framingham, Mass. meet our challenge of reducing energy inten• Chevron Energy Solutions, Eagan, Minn. sity, increasing the use of renewable energy, • Clark Realty Builders, Arlington, Va. and decreasing water consumption,” U.S. DOE • Consolidated Edison Solutions Inc., Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said. White Plains, N.Y. In August 2007, Secretary Bodman launched • Constellation Energy Projects & the Transformational Energy Action ManageServices Group Inc., Baltimore ment (TEAM) Initiative, a department-wide • FPL Energy Service Inc., effort aimed at reducing energy intensity North Palm Beach, Fla. across DOE nationwide by 30%. The TEAM • Honeywell International Inc., Initiative aims to meet or exceed the aggresGolden Valley, Minn. sive goals for increasing energy efficiency • Johnson Controls Government throughout the federal government already Systems LLC, Milwaukee laid out by President Bush through Executive • Lockheed Martin Services Inc., Order 13423, which directed federal agencies Cherry Hill, N.J. to: reduce energy intensity and greenhouse • McKinstry Essention Inc., Seattle gas emissions, substantially increase use and • NORESCO LLC, Westborough, Mass. efficiency of renewable energy technologies, • Pepco Energy Services, Arlington, Va. adopt sustainable design practices, and reduce • Siemens Government Services Inc., petroleum use in federal fleets. Reston, Va. Under an ESPC, the contractor designs, con• TAC Energy Solutions, Seattle structs, and obtains the necessary financing for • The Benham Companies LLC, an energy savings project. The agency makes Oklahoma City payments over time to the contractor from the • Trane U.S. Inc., McEwen, Tenn. savings reduction in the utility bills, which are WWW.CSEMAG.COM 8 Consulting-Specifying Engineer • JANUARY 2009 http://www.csemag.com/40under40 http://www.csemag.com/poy
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