If your organization knows what services
are needed but lacks staff time or experience, can
provide the expertise of a Energy Services Company (ESCO) needed to
complete your project.
Hiring an Energy Services Company is one way
to identify and implement energy efficiency projects in your facility.
Rather than hiring multiple consultants, can provide experienced personnel to handle
all aspects.
We also provide or obtain project financing,
operate and maintain the energy equipment and guarantee the energy
savings and performance of the equipment.
Building A Plan
The
first step for facility managers considering energy management
outsourcing is to identify the issues their company faces internally.
It is important to identify needs and rationale for outsourcing. This
includes quantifying energy market activity, facility infrastructure
status, budget issues, and the impact of those issues on operations.
Some
questions to consider include:
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What is the current energy situation the company is facing?
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What changes have taken place in the energy marketplace and what effect
are those changes having on the company?
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What does the facility manager hope to accomplish through outsourcing?
These issues could include, but are should not be limited to:
- Reducing costs;
- Improving facility infrastructure;
- Managing budgets;
- Improving energy reliability;
- Mitigating price risk;
- Downsizing operations;
- Responding to the increasing
complexity/inability to keep up with rules and regulations in the
electric industry; and
- Outsourcing non-core functions.
This
needs assessment achieves several functions. First, it helps set goals
to be accomplished. can make more specific and effective proposals once
they know what the customer truly wants to accomplish.
Second, this assessment helps identify the
scope of outsourcing. This can range from outsourcing a single project,
to supply-side services, to demand-side projects, to overall corporate
energy management.
provides support and help to identify
internal and external needs of industrial, private and public
customers.
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