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Bonneville Power Administration's Purchasing of Energy Savings
Abstract
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)
is conducting a commercial buildings retrofit
program in the Pacific Northwest by making payments
to a sponsor, such as an energy service
company or architectural and engineering firm,
for energy savings which actually occur in a
commercial building. This effort is one of
several activities BPA is conducting to develop
the capability to conserve energy in the commercial
sector of electrical energy use. This
paper describes the benefits of the approach,
the program design, lessons learned through
field testing the approach, and how the program
has been redesigned.
In the field test of the approach, BPA
awarded contracts to five sponsors to retrofit
29 commercial buildings. Each sponsor located
interested building owners, performed energy
audits, negotiated agreements with each building
owner, and has arranged for the financing,
installation, operation, and maintenance of
electrical energy conservation measures (ECM's).
A major hurdle to successfully implementing the
field tests was developing the experience and
capability within sponsors to complete transactions.
In most cases, these sponsors have not
provided such comprehensive energy conservation
services to building owners before. However,
evaluating the proposals, negotiating contracts,
and implementing projects with those sponsors
selected to participate leaves us optimistic
about their ability to succeed.
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Citation
Schick, H. (1985). Bonneville Power Administration's Purchasing of Energy Savings. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /93132.