Investment Tax Credit Requirements for Privately Owned Solar Photovoltaic Systems on Federal Sites
Fact sheet describes investment tax credit considerations and benefits for privately owned photovoltaics on federal land and buildings.
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Holistic Energy Management Yields Cost Savings and Resilience Benefits for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Fact sheet details the overdue overhaul of the U.S. Coast Guard’s third largest energy consumer, the 86-year-old Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. The overhaul was made possible by the largest utility energy service contract (UESC) in U.S. Department of Homeland Security history.
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ESPC ESA Case Study: Energy Affordability at the Drug Enforcement Administration
Fact sheet describes the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's 2.5-MW-DC photovoltaic system at its El Paso Intelligence Center located on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
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Handbook: Performing a Comprehensive Walk-through Water Survey
Document provides general instructions on performing a walk-through water survey to collect the required data for a comprehensive water evaluation.
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Healthy Buildings Initiative: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pilot Study
Fact sheet describes Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s pilot of its framework for evaluating indoor environmental quality metrics and quantifying the potential financial costs and gains related to improving occupant productivity in federal buildings. The framework was piloted at PNNL’s Richland, Washington, campus to investigate how integrated energy and health analysis could benefit building retrofit and operation strategies.
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Federal Contracting Opportunity for Small and Minority-Owned Business
Fact sheet outlines performance contracting opportunities—such as energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs), ESPC ENABLE, and utility energy service contracts (UESC)—that may be an option for small- and minority-owned businesses.
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Existing Healthy Building Resources Overview
Fact sheet explores some of the most impactful resources to help building owners and operators understand more about buildings that are both healthy and energy-efficient.
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Healthy Buildings Initiative: General Services Administration Pilot Study
Fact sheet describes the process for analyzing large amounts of data to prioritize buildings within a portfolio and to provide customized improvement recommendations.
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Healthy Building Initiative: Fort Worth Pilot Study
This fact sheet describes a case study of a federal office building in Fort Worth, Texas, that was used as a test site for indoor environmental quality data collection and analysis.
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Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs)
This fact sheet describes the benefits of using ESPCs and outlines ESPC resources available from the Federal Energy Management Program.
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Utility Energy Service Contract Boosts Chemical Weapons Destruction Mission at Army Pueblo Chemical Depot
For six decades, the U.S. Army has safely and securely stored chemical munitions at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado. To help fulfill international treaty obligations and to meet a congressional deadline of 2023 for the elimination of these aging weapons, initial destruction of the Pueblo chemical weapons stockpile began in 2015. A utility energy service contract (UESC) executed in 2016 between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Depot’s serving utility, Black Hills Energy (BHE), directly supported this mission with the installation of a new electrical substation that was essential to the Depot’s need for uninterrupted power.
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Energy Management Information System Powers NREL's Intelligent Campus
NREL's Intelligent Campus program leverages its own laboratory buildings as research instruments to study renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage, integration, and analysis with real, quantitative measurements. At the heart of NREL's Intelligent Campus program is its Energy Management Information System (EMIS), a family of tools and services used to manage building and campus energy use. NREL's EMIS includes capabilities, such as benchmarking and monthly utility tracking, interval meter analytics, equipment fault detection and diagnostics, condition-based monitoring, and supervisory control, enabling unprecedented energy management capabilities. The system serves as a demonstration project for other federal facilities interested in learning about its design, features, and benefits.
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Energy Savings Performance Contract Energy Sales Agreements
An energy savings performance contract energy sales agreement - referred to as an ESPC ESA or ESPC with an ESA - is a project structure that uses the multiyear ESPC authority to implement distributed energy projects on federal buildings or land. The distributed energy project implemented under an ESPC ESA is referred to as an ESA energy conservation measure, or ESA ECM.
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Investment Tax Credit Requirements for Privately Owned Solar Photovoltaic Systems on Federal Sites
The federal investment tax credit (ITC) is an economically valuable tax incentive offered to taxable business entities that invest in certain energy technologies. The ITC is based on a percentage of the qualifying upfront capital costs of a project and directly reduces a business's tax liability (i.e., the taxes paid). This fact sheet focuses on ITC considerations for privately owned solar photovoltaic (PV) projects on federal land and buildings, although some of the considerations may be applicable to other technologies and non-federal entities.
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Cybersecurity Assessment Tools for Distributed Energy Resources
This growing number of smart devices that support DERs can increase the number of access points outside a utility’s administrative domain, which can increase the potential for cyberattack. With the integration of DERs at federal sites, the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of DER systems must be understood and addressed. This presentation covers two NREL tools available. The Distributed Energy Resource Cybersecurity Framework (DER-CF) is a web-based holistic tool for evaluating cybersecurity posture including governance, physical security and technical management. The Distributed Energy Resource Risk Manager (DER-RM) extends the DER-CF by applying it to the NIST risk management framework process. It will be downloadable application that runs locally and documents all the major requirements for achieving Authority to Operate the DER.
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ESPC ESA Overview and Requirements
This webinar is the first of a series that provides information, best practices, and resources for implementing energy savings performance contract (ESPC) energy sales agreement (ESA) projects.
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ESPC ESA Webinar Series: ESPC IDIQ Contract Vehicle Overview
This webinar provides instructions and resources for financing distributed energy projects (e.g. on-site renewable energy, storage, and combined heat and power) using an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) energy sales agreement (ESA) through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) energy savings performance contract (ESPC) vehicle. The DOE IDIQ ESPC contract vehicle uses a streamlined master contract that allows federal agencies to work with 21 energy service companies holding the current DOE IDIQ ESPC. Topics covered in the webinar include: An overview of the DOE IDIQ contract vehicle; ESA-specific considerations for IDIQ contracts; and Specific use cases. The webinar also provides an overview of the resources available on the Federal Energy Management Program website, such as IDIQ tools and templates. This webinar is the fifth in a series that provides information, best practices, and resources for implementing an ESPC ESA project. ESPC ESAs are a great option for federal sites that are motivated to reduce site costs, have no capital investment funding, and cannot use the U.S. Department of Defense 10 USC 2922a authority for long-term contracting.
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ESPC ESA Training Series: Photovoltaic (PV) Project Considerations
This training covers technical, economic and other photovoltaic (PV) project considerations. Technical topics include cost-effectiveness, resilience, cybersecurity, and electrical considerations. In addition, other topics, such as compatibility with agency mission, site plans, coordination with the serving utility, the National Environmental Policy Act, and agency approval requirements. Considerations specific to third-party owned/third-party financed PV projects are also covered, as well as available resources and templates for project development. The training also includes a recap of the first session in the Energy Savings Performance Contracts Energy Sales Agreements (ESPC ESA) Webinar Series.
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