Financial
UESC Case
Studies
Laws and Regulations That Influence
Energy Conservation
• Executive Order 13423, “Strengthening Federal
Environmental, Energy, and Transportation
Management” (January 24, 2007)
• The Energy Policy Act (EPAct) 2005
• The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
(originally named the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007)
• Agency Specific Regulations
• The President’s $2,000,000,000.00 Challenge
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The UESC Process at SCE
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Project Development
and Management for Federal Customers
• Free Preliminary Audits
• Investment Grade Audits
• Financing
• Construction Management
• Commissioning
• M&V
• Turn-Key Design/Bid/Build or Design/Build
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Past and Current Projects
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China Lake: Energy and Water Conservation
GSA West Los Angeles: Parking Lot Lighting
VA Long Beach: Interior and Exterior Lighting
VA West Los Angeles: Lighting, HVAC Retrofits and Replacement,
Steam Line Condensate Return, Energy Management and Building
Automation Controls
• Fort Irwin: Central Plant Upgrades with Chiller Replacements,
Energy Management and Building Automation Controls
• NASA Goldstone: Central Plant Upgrades with Chiller Replacements,
Energy Management and Building Automation Controls for Some
Very Big Antenna Arrays
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That’s a Big Antenna
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Energy Efficiency First
• The Loading Order
– Energy efficiency, demand response, renewables
• First, make the facility as energy efficient as possible
(equipment)
• Second, implement a demand response program
(behavioral)
• Third, install Renewable Energy
• The benefits of doing EE First
• The facility uses less energy and the system can be smaller
• More power can be sold into the market
• This will simplify the facility’s microgrid and allow
interconnection of the microgrid to an energy management
system for total, real-time, control
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What Makes a Project Good
• Building a good team
– Contracting Officer Staff
– Facility Staff
– Utility Staff
– Financing Partner
• Listening to the Customer
– Pain Points
– Making Suggestions not Prescribing Solutions
– Team Concurrence on all ECMs
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What Makes a Great Project
• Building a Great Team
– Contracting Officer Champion
– Facility Staff Champion
– Utility Staff Champion
– Financing Partner Champion
• Listening to the Customer
– Pain Points
– Making Suggestions not Prescribing Solutions
– Concurrence of the Champions
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Performance Contracting
• Measure and Develop a Baseline
• Install the Right Equipment with the Right Contracting
Team
• Commission the Project
• Retro-Commission Everything Else
• Retro-Commission Everything a Year Later
• Performance Verification Through Commissioning and
Retro-Commissioning
• There is No Savings Guarantee but if You Do Everything
Right, the Savings Will be there and the Project will
Perform for the Life of the Measures
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Phill’s Challenge
• Don’t Be Diogenes, with a Lantern, Looking all
Night for a Champion
• Be the Champion
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Questions
Phill Consiglio
Federal Team Manager
Southern California Edison
Phillip.Consiglio@sce.com
(626)633-7190
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