360° PERSPECTIVE ON DEEP ENERGY RETROFITS

This executive summary reports on a workshop held on April 2, 2014, convened by the General Services Administration (GSA), the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). The workshop aimed to review the National Deep Energy Retrofit (NDER) program and collaborate with energy service companies (ESCOs) to increase energy savings in federal buildings through energy saving performance contracts (ESPCs).

• The GSA's NDER program has demonstrated significantly higher energy savings than other federal agencies; 10 GSA ESPC projects achieved an average of 38% savings, whereas 33 projects by other federal government agencies averaged 21% savings.
• Deep energy retrofits are capable of reducing a building's energy consumption by 50 percent or more, which helps federal agencies meet energy efficiency mandates and reduce operational costs.
• The GSA identified several best practices to streamline ESPC projects and increase savings, including the use of centralized contracting reviews to ensure faster and more consistent review time frames, and limiting task orders to align with available human resources.
• A significant barrier to deeper savings is the current GSA practice of contracting operations and maintenance (O&M) on a per-equipment or per-system basis to small businesses. Transitioning to whole-building performance contracts for O&M could provide savings as large as or larger than energy cost savings.
• The GSA launched the NDER 2 Program in May 2014, which includes 49 buildings across five regions totaling over 19.6 million square feet.

APA

RMI (n.d.). 360° PERSPECTIVE ON DEEP ENERGY RETROFITS. https://rmi.org/app/uploads/2017/05/RMI_Document_Repository_Public-Reprts_2014-27_360PerspectiveonFederalDeepEnergyRetrofits-ExecSummary.pdf

Chicago

RMI. 360° PERSPECTIVE ON DEEP ENERGY RETROFITS. n.d. https://rmi.org/app/uploads/2017/05/RMI_Document_Repository_Public-Reprts_2014-27_360PerspectiveonFederalDeepEnergyRetrofits-ExecSummary.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rmind360, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{360° PERSPECTIVE ON DEEP ENERGY RETROFITS}}, institution = {RMI}, url = {https://rmi.org/app/uploads/2017/05/RMI_Document_Repository_Public-Reprts_2014-27_360PerspectiveonFederalDeepEnergyRetrofits-ExecSummary.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }