Helping Federal Agencies Meet Government Mandates and Mission Requirements

As the nation’s largest energy consumer, the federal government plays a leading role in energy management, driving innovation and introducing new technologies to improve resiliency and control costs. Access to affordable, reliable, and resilient energy and water is critical to mission readiness and therefore a strategic priority for all federal agencies.

$2 Billion Track Record of Success

NORESCO’s Federal Team is solutions-focused, helping our customers achieve secure, resilient, and efficient infrastructure. We are a recognized leader within the energy services industry with more than $2 billion of proven federal energy solutions in virtually all types of government facilities, ranging from federal courthouses, office buildings, and national laboratories to U.S. military installations worldwide.

The Challenges Facing Federal Agencies

Federal agencies are navigating tight budgets while responding to evolving mandates that emphasize energy reliability, infrastructure modernization, and efficient resource management.

Agencies constantly seek to:

  • Improve energy, water, and resource efficiency across facilities
  • Strengthen infrastructure resilience
  • Secure dependable energy sources to enhance mission readiness
  • Optimize facility performance
  • Deploy proven and advanced energy technologies for infrastructure modernization
  • Shift building loads toward more efficient and secure systems
  • Enhance operations and maintenance effectiveness and continuity
  • Modernize facilities for high performance and resilience, including grid responsiveness
  • Meet new cybersecurity threats to infrastructure and operations

NORESCO’s Solutions Approach Includes Financed Solutions

Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC)

ESPCs help the federal government affordably achieve energy and water reliability and resilience goals through a comprehensive third-party financed framework that leverages private sector resources to deliver federal government facility and infrastructure improvements. ESPC delivers energy and water efficiency, facility infrastructure upgrades, and mission resilience with no up-front capital and without the need for congressional appropriations.

As an energy services company (ESCO), NORESCO incurs all costs and risks associated with the development, implementation, and service of the project, paid through the verified utility and operational savings produced. ESPCs can also enable federal customers to benefit indirectly from tax incentives and other financial mechanisms by monetizing those credits and incentives.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Army Corps of Engineers have streamlined ESPC procurement by creating indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts that can be used for any US federal facility worldwide. As a DOE and Army Corps of Engineers ESPC IDIQ contract holder, NORESCO brings critical efficiency and energy goals within reach for federal agencies.

Utility Energy Service Contract (UESC)

Federal customers can also use Utility Energy Service Contracts (UESCs) to implement comprehensive energy efficiency and facility infrastructure upgrades with no up-front capital. In a UESC, the federal agency contracts with a serving gas, electric or water utility. NORESCO, in partnership with the utility, provides a turnkey project, including development, implementation, financing, and performance assurance. NORESCO currently partners with 14 utilities across the country through established UESC master agreements to support the utility’s federal customers.

ESPC with Energy Sales Agreement (ESA)

NORESCO was one of the first ESCOs to implement an ESA to help federal customers fully capture and monetize all available tax and other incentives. Now we’re breaking ground through the integration of third-party financing to leverage savings generated through the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP). This approach can fund additional efficiencies while provide leveraging ESPC or UESC to fund ongoing O&M support for the infrastructure that ERCIP enables.

Industry Leadership Since 1984

In our more than 40 years as a pioneering ESCO, NORESCO has achieved some of the highest technical and customer care rankings in each of the major ESPC IDIQ contract evaluations. In 2024, the DOE rated NORESCO’s proposal number one overall out of 20 awarded ESCO companies under the DOE ESPC GEN4 IDIQ contract.

NORESCO’s dedicated Federal Team develops solutions to federal energy, resiliency, and mission assurance challenges with a suite of technologies and techniques including:

  • New and efficient technologies, including microgrids that support improved resilience, energy security and fuel diversity
  • Deep energy retrofits and fence-to-fence strategies to drive maximum energy and water efficiency
  • Enhanced cybersecure facility controls platforms that follow the NIST Risk Management Framework to achieve Cybersecure Authority to Operate in the modern cyber threat environment
  • Helping federal customers identify all available funding alternatives, including tax incentives, rebates, the DOE’s Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies (AFFECT) grant program, and Department of War’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP)

Why NORESCO Federal?

We earned our position as an industry leader with more than $2 billion federal solutions delivered by taking a customer centric, comprehensive and innovative approach to developing energy and water solutions. We have the in-house expertise to engineer, design, implement and maintain even the most complex solutions. In an environment where quick-payback measures have become harder to find, we innovate economically viable outcomes by evaluating multiple funding sources and financing scenarios. NORESCO eliminates customer risk by providing financial and contractual guarantees that ensure maximum savings and system performance through the contract lifecycle.

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