Energy Savings Performance Contract Protects Environment—and Saves Taxpayers up to $7 million

On June 30, 2015, the Census Bureau's National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana awarded a $120 million Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) to Johnson Controls Government Solutions, a firm that helps the federal government maximize building performance in technology, energy, and security. The contract was awarded by Census on behalf of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The contract will decrease NIST's environmental impact, and savings on NIST's utility bills will range from $4.1 to $6.7 million annually over the 25-year life of the contract. It will also earn one-time utility rebates of up to $3.2 million when finished and operating. This is the 5th largest contract of its kind awarded by any civilian agency since President Obama launched the Performance Contracting Challenge in 2011.

The main feature of the energy conservation effort will be the construction of a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant, a 4,100 square foot building addition onto the NIST campus's Central Utility Plant which will save NIST $3.9 million alone. With a natural gas fired turbine, the CHP will offset 40% of the campus's electric load. This amount of generated electricity will cost less than if NIST were to purchase it from the local electric company. The CHP will recover high temperature turbine exhaust heat that will meet almost 75% of the campus's steam load.

Read the full announcement on the Department of Commerce website.

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