Fort Carson is a major U.S. Army training facility and leader in energy management, and it was committed to achieving further and deeper energy savings.
The facility has had four previous energy savings performance contracts (ESPC), and our appointment as the fifth came with the challenge to achieve deep savings. The installation had an extremely low energy rate of 4.4 cents/kilowatt-hour on peak, and almost all of the easily achieved energy-saving strategies had been implemented as part of previous ESPC efforts.
To create a comprehensive ESPC program that delivers on Fort Carson’s current and future goals, our team developed a master plan using our Sustainable Systems Integration Model Energy Vision (SSIMe™) process, which was a precursor to the Rosetta platform. SSIMe enabled us to present various project options in a dynamic and transparent framework, allowing the team to analyze various options in a live “game-boarding” environment.
The team manipulated critical project factors such as scope of work, financial inputs, utility rates/escalation and project phasing to evaluate the project options against Fort Carson’s program goals.
Presented with these options, Fort Carson decided on a blend of traditional energy conservation measures such as lighting and heating, ventilation and air conditioning improvements combined with advanced strategies such as smart energy management control systems and a battery energy storage system that manages electrical demand charges.
