Best Practices and Barriers
Presented by:
Lauren Baldwin
Sustainability Program Specialist, City of El Paso
BaldwinLD@elpasotexas.gov
915-208-9693
Energy Efficiency Contracts
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• $42,292,617 in energy efficiency
performance contracts
• Johnson Controls, Inc. guarantees
the savings from the retrofits
• The City of El Paso pays Johnson
Controls, Inc. from the energy
savings
• Contract period for 10 years+
• After the contract period is up and
Johnson Controls, Inc. has been paid for
their services, the City sees significant
savings
• Over $2 million in energy savings per
year!
History of Amendments
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History of Amendments
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Original Contract – Fee for
engineering evaluation
Phase I Performance Contract
Amendment 1
Amendment 2
Amendment 3
Amendment 4
Amendment 5
Amendment 6
Amendment 7
Amendment 8
Amendment 9
8/28/2007
7/15/2008
1/16/2011
10/25/2011
10/25/2011
1/10/2012
1/22/2013
1/22/2013
12/10/2013
12/10/2013
1/28/2014
TOTAL:
$240,000
$14,767,054
$3,626,770
$2,824,000
$5,008,000
$1,080,000
$5,649,993
$247,300
$7,500,000
$1,500,000
$89,500
$42,532,617
Current status
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Original Award:
Fee for detailed
engineering
evaluation
performance
contract
Amend. 1 for
energy savings
contract
Amend. 2 for
streetlights and
more
2 million kwH
2,600 street lights savings / year
Amend. 3 new
street light
improvements
4,700 street lights
$329,199 savings / $2.8 million loan
yr
program
$842,000 savings /
year (includes HVAC
and lighting
$5 million loan
upgrades)
program
HPS and MV to LED
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
Amend. 4 for PV
system
Amend. 5 for
energy savings
contract M and V
Amend. 6 for
energy savings
contract M and V
Amend. 7 for
10,600 streetlights 10,600 streetlights
$7.5 million
Amend. 8 using
TIRZ funding for
LED Street lights
$107,000 savings /
downtown
410,000 kwH / year year
$1.5 million
Amendment 8
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M and V services
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Barriers
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 Seems clear…
Sharing maintenance
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Considerations
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 Loan payments
 Employee turnover
 Energy manager
 Coordination with utilities
 Pole ownership (current issues)
 Storage
 Communication
 Street light maintenance group
 Growth policies
 Subdivision ordinance change
 Energy management software communication
Input from other cities
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 Assigned two companies to ESPCs
 Competition
 Served as a check
 Cherry-picking projects?
 “Need someone to quarterback the team”
 “Conservation Specialist”
 “black hole of savings if in other departments”
 Use Portfolio Manager and sync it with their other
dashboard software
 Figure out what is the CFO’s favorite way of financing the
projects
 Take them the cash flow and tell them there are a variety of
ways to do it (not just ESPCs)
 Find out what they’re comfortable with so you can continue
Energy bills

What’s missing?
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Year
Electric Bill
FY2011
$8,141,623
FY2012
$8,402,374
FY2013
$8,025,008
FY2014
$7,997,275
FY2015 (to date)
$6,446,189
FY2015 (projected)
$7,646,189