Public sector agencies play a critical role in strengthening local economies, modernizing infrastructure, and preparing communities for future challenges. At the same time, agencies are navigating aging facilities, rising energy costs, and increasing demands for resilience and innovation, often with limited capital resources.
This ESPC Campaign event will explore how Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) can serve as a powerful tool to help communities unlock innovation, build resilience, and drive economic development without requiring upfront funding.
Participants will learn how ESPC enables public agencies to:
• Drive local economic growth and promote energy affordability by catalyzing job creation, workforce development, and private investment through performance-based energy and infrastructure upgrades, while lowering total energy costs, improving budget predictability, and protecting public dollars from rising and volatile utility rates
• Deploy innovative, cost-effective technologies such as advanced building controls, electrification, energy storage, and distributed energy resources that improve facility performance, reduce energy waste, and advance clean energy and innovation priorities without requiring upfront capital
• Strengthen resilience and reinvest savings locally by improving reliability during disruptions, enhancing long-term operational stability, and using guaranteed energy cost savings to fund community services, education, public health, and other priority needs rather than energy bills
The session will highlight real-world examples of ESPC projects that have delivered measurable economic and community benefits, outline how agencies can align ESPC projects with broader development and resilience goals, and connect attendees to technical assistance and resources available through the ESPC Campaign.
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