Helping Federal Agencies Meet Government Mandates and Mission Requirement

As the nation’s largest energy consumer, the federal government plays a leading role in energy management, driving innovation and introducing new technologies market to improve resiliency and control costs. Energy and water are critical to the mission readiness of federal agencies and therefore a strategic priority.

$2.75 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 $2.75 billion of proven energy solutions in virtually all types of government facilities, ranging from federal courthouses, office buildings, and U.S. military installations worldwide to national laboratories.

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 national readiness
  • Optimize facility performance and reduce operational emissions
  • Deploy proven and advanced energy technologies for infrastructure modernization
  • Shift building loads toward more efficient and secure systems
  • Enhance O&M effectiveness and continuity
  • Build a technically skilled, mission-driven federal workforce
  • Develop and retrofit facilities for high performance and grid responsiveness 
  • Meet new cybersecurity threats through integrated infrastructure planning

NORESCO’s Approach Includes Financed Solutions

Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) helps the federal government achieve these goals through a comprehensive framework using private sector resources. It can deliver energy efficiency, facility infrastructure upgrades, and mission resilience with no up-front capital and without the need for congressional appropriations.

Energy services companies (ESCOs), such as NORESCO, incur all costs and risks associated with the development, implementation, and service of the project, paid through the verified utility and operational savings produced. ESPC contracts may also enable federal customers to benefit indirectly from tax incentives and other financial mechanisms by partnering with private entities that can monetize those credits.

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 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.

Federal customers can also use Utility Energy Service Contracts (UESC) 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 has master agreements with 14 utilities across the country to support our utility partners through UESCs.

More than 40 Years of Industry Leadership

In our more than 40 years as a pioneering ESCO, NORESCO has achieved some of the highest technical rankings in each of the major ESPC IDIQ contract evaluations. The DOE rated NORESCO’s proposal number one overall out of 25 proposals submitted and 20 awards made for the DOE ESPC GEN4 IDIQ contract award.

NORESCO’s dedicated Federal team is responding to federal energy and mission assurance challenges with a suite of technologies and techniques including:

  • New and efficient technologies, like heat pumps, that support transition of on-site loads formerly met with fossil fuels
  • Deep energy retrofits and fence-to-fence strategies to drive maximum energy and water efficiencies
  • Resilient microgrids with energy storage
  • Helping customers identify all available creative funding sources such as tax incentives, rebates, and the DOE’s Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies (AFFECT) grant program

NORESCO was one of the first ESCOs to implement energy sales agreements (ESAs) 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 and provide ongoing O&M support for the infrastructure ERCIP enables.

Why NORESCO Federal?

At NORESCO, we take a comprehensive and innovative approach to develop energy and water solutions, and we have the in-house expertise to engineer, design, implement and maintain them. In an environment where high-payback measures have become harder to find, we evaluate multiple financing scenarios. Our approach strives to identify all available incentives and rebates to determine the best value solution to fund the project scope with available savings. NORESCO provides financial and contractual guarantees to ensure that savings and system performance are maintained.

Reach out to us today. Our Federal team looks forward to hearing from you.