ESCO ENERGY SERVICES PROGRAM

Our Commitment

GE Lighting’s commitment is to provide customers with a full-service approach to energy savings. The program creates a national provider network of independent, qualified service ESCO’s and service providers — specializing in lighting, energy conservation measures, and sustainability.

Implementing environmental excellence building strategies, including energy efficiency, are key to revitalizing our economy. GE is dedicated to working with members of its Energy Services Program as part of its commitment to environmental stewardship.

What is an ESPC?

A contracting method in which the contractor provides capital to facilitate energy savings projects and maintains them in exchange for a portion of the energy savings generated. An energy savings performance contract is an agreement between an energy services company (ESCO) and a building owner — typically in the government sector.

ESCO Installation Case Study

The provider in this case helped identify savings for a retail store that was lit 12 hours a day, seven days per week using T12 fluorescent lamps and electronic ballasts. Energy rates were averaging $0.16 per kWh.

The service provider analyzed the store and provided a basic retrofit where 150 fixtures were relamped from 4-lamp T12 lamps to 150, 2-lamp T8 lamps with electronic ballasts, including a reflector change. The project leveraged local rebates, offsetting the cost of the project by 30%. The project provided an approximate simple payback of one year and reduced the energy consumption by over 80,800 kWh per year. Also, the store qualified for additional federal tax breaks afforded by EPAct, which allowed the retailer to reduce its taxable income and reduce its overall tax burden that year. This retrofit example improved energy efficiency by:

SAVING	$12,930 electricity savings per year
REDUCING	80,800 kWh of electricity per year which:
AVOIDS	49 metric tons of CO2 emissions on the U.S. grid annually, which is:
EQUIVALENT	to the annual CO2 emissions of 9 cars on U.S. roads

GE Lighting’s ESCO Energy Services Program provides a comprehensive strategy for identifying energy-saving opportunities within customer facilities.

Our Commitment

GE Lighting’s ESCO Energy Services Program will provide GE’s customers with viable service options related to energy optimization enhancements. Through the program, GE aims to help customers explore energy strategies that take into account such factors as cost of light payback, return on investment, rebates, financing, and government incentives that can reduce investment costs. All these options include, but are not limited to, lighting.

What is an ESCO?

An energy service company (acronym: ESCO or ESCo) is a professional business providing a broad range of comprehensive energy solutions including designs and implementation of energy savings projects, energy conservation, energy infrastructure outsourcing, power generation and energy supply, and risk management. ESCO’s are often labled ESPC’s. What is an ESPC?

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Our Services Program

GE and its ESCO/Service Provider members intend to deliver an excellent return on investment for their customers with the establishment of the new program by utilizing GE’s energy efficient products and the installation expertise of its members, resulting in significant monetary savings and environmental stewardship and may provide some of the following services:

Design/Build Solutions including Lighting
Project management, installation, and ongoing maintenance services
Leveraging legislative imperatives to maximize tax incentives and rebates
Warranty enhancements and simplification
And many more…

Many of the providers offer enhanced energy services such as Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC); Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) motor efficiency upgrades; controls; and Building Automation Systems (BAS); and may have access to other GE Business technology lines.

From a lighting perspective, providers can offer a comprehensive list of services. They will vary by provider and may include:

Auditing
Lighting Retrofits
Lighting Maintenance
Administering of State/Local Rebate programs
EPAct/Legislation knowledge and assistance
Design/Specification
Financing and/or performance contracting
Service Agreements and labor packages

Application Expertise

Many of the members offer services including:

ESCO Installation Case Study

A recent retrofit project illustrating the value of working with an ESCO or service provider. See how this retrofit example improved energy efficiency.
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Energy Saving Tools

Energy Management Solutions

GE’s new on-line controllable lighting/energy management demonstrator is an excellent resource that highlights a variety of ways that businesses can reduce their facilities’ energy expenditures through the use of dimming platforms. Demonstrations include how to use advanced dimming techniques such as daylight harvesting, occupancy sensing, load shedding, demand response, and more.

Legislation Product Replacement Tool

Questions about lighting legislation and the elimination of products? To help make sense of all the recent legislative imperatives, GE’s Legislation Product Replacement Tool provides a complete listing of deregulated products while offering energy saving, longer life alternative products for replacement.

Linear Fluorescent Retrofit Calculator

This simple, powerful tool will help you evaluate your current lighting system and provide upgrade options based on what’s most important to you.

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The time is now to take advantage of the solutions and resources GE Lighting has to offer. We have specialists dedicated to helping you with Energy Efficient Products, Energy Audits, and much more!
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This program is designed to provide information about ESCO’s/service providers that offer products, services, and advice directly to distributors and commercial and industrial end-users. These ESCO’s/service providers are independent third parties and are not affiliated with GE. GE is not, and will not be, a party to any agreements relating to any products, services, or advice provided by ESCO’s/service providers. GE is not a guarantor of, and shall have no liability or obligations in connection with, any contracts, products, services, or advice offered or provided by any ESCO/service provider.