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The Energy Services Agreement: An Approach to Energy Conservation and Management in a Multi-Building, Multi-Use Facility
Abstract
The Texas Southern University case study
describes an innovative conceptual approach to comprehensive
energy management involving an agreement
with a qualified energy services company to install a building automation system (BAS) and energy
conservation measures (ECMs) campus wide and provide
staff training, supplementary maintenance and
guarantees of savings achieved. This is accomplished
through a three-stage process of qualification, preliminary selection, and contract negotiation. TSU's approach relies on the service
company to provide the engineering, but uses an
oversight engineer to provide project integrity. In
TSU's case, financing was not required and supplementary
maintenance has been rebid. The University
was able to capitalize on Federal funding and
renovation monies to help make the approach an
initial success.
Citation
Hull, R. W. (1988). The Energy Services Agreement: An Approach to Energy Conservation and Management in a Multi-Building, Multi-Use Facility. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /6551.