Hospital, Campus & City Performance Contracting Summit

The problem: The Wheaton district needed new boilers, chillers, classroom air handling and district-wide controls.

Published result: Fourteen phases from 2013 to 2025 worth $35,815,587, with annual guaranteed energy and operational savings of $3,084,749 and $686,831 in utility incentives (guaranteed, not measured) (as reported by Performance Services)

Invited: Performance Services and Community Unit School District 200 · Read the published case

The problem: The district needed upgrades across 28 of its 30 buildings, 2.35 million sq ft, and paid for them through an energy savings performance contract.

Published result: An ESPC worth about $30 million, started in 2017; energy use intensity fell from 40.8 to 24.2, a 41% decrease in energy use (as reported by CMTA)

Invited: CMTA and Warren County Public Schools · Read the published case

The problem: Beacon wanted more reliable, lower-cost and lower-carbon energy at Memorial Hospital of South Bend and Elkhart General Hospital without taking on new debt.

Published result: A 30-year, $54.2 million energy-as-a-service agreement: a 2.5 MW combined heat and power system, LED retrofits, retro-commissioning, hydronic and air system upgrades and building automation; expected to deliver more than $191 million in utility savings over the term, a 35.5% cut in annual utility costs and a 26.2% cut in carbon emissions (projected) (as reported by ENFRA)

Invited: ENFRA and Beacon Health System · Read the published case

The problem: The Chicago-area village joined the program in summer 2022 to deliver on its Climate Ready Oak Park plan, and departments that had never met on energy needed a way to work together.

Published result: Through ComEd's Strategic Energy Management program, village staff completed 10 projects (fan balancing, leaky ductwork repair, building automation and panel upgrades, de-lamping, LED upgrades, energy and envelope assessments) tracked against a ComEd energy model: 1,059,490 kWh saved in 2023 and annual energy costs reduced by $120,146 (as reported by ComEd, 2024 case study).

Invited: ComEd's Strategic Energy Management program and the Village of Oak Park · Read the published case

The problem: After years in DTE's business efficiency program, the district's remaining opportunities had become more complex, and it wanted deeper savings across a diverse portfolio of buildings.

Published result: Installing and upgrading building management systems at 27 locations saved 2,741,742 kWh a year and earned $92,686 in incentives, with chiller tune-ups (69,097 kWh, $10,357) and LED lighting (8,873 kWh, $582) bringing the total to 2.8 million kWh saved annually, $103,625 in incentive dollars and 3,065 tons of CO2 a year (as reported by DTE Energy's Energy Efficiency Program for Business, July 2023).

Invited: DTE Energy's Energy Efficiency Program for Business and Ann Arbor Public Schools · Read the published case

The problem: After a 2018 referendum paid for new HVAC and building automation, the district wanted more savings from better operation rather than new equipment.

Published result: Through Focus on Energy's Utility Bill Verified Savings offering, Longfellow Middle School saved 100,667 kWh and 11,701 therms a year, cut total energy costs 21% and energy use intensity 7.5%, and raised its ENERGY STAR score from 58 to 65; incentive of $9,439 (as reported by Focus on Energy)

Invited: Focus on Energy and Wauwatosa School District · Read the published case

The problem: A 15-hospital Catholic system with campuses from Springfield and Belleville to Green Bay and Eau Claire needed its existing buildings to perform better, campus by campus.

Published result: Since 2013 IMEG has run 82 projects at 20+ facilities: 48 commissioning projects, retro-commissioning at 11 facilities, monitoring-based commissioning at 5, utility analytics at all Illinois and Wisconsin hospitals and building automation optimization plans at 3; annual savings of $1,328,738, utility incentives of $1,418,083 and a 0.61-year payback on the energy efficiency projects (as reported by IMEG).

Invited: IMEG and Hospital Sisters Health System · Read the published case

The problem: The campus kept growing while commodity costs rose an average of 4% a year.

Published result: From FY2017 to FY2025, working with Cenergistic on energy management, energy use per square foot fell 19.2% (measured at the campus substations) and the university counts $85.5 million in cumulative avoided energy costs (as reported by the University of Kentucky)

Invited: Cenergistic and the University of Kentucky · Read the published case

The problem: The university wanted energy savings from the systems it already owned, without compromising operating conditions, under AES Ohio's (formerly DP&L) Retro-Commissioning Incentive Program.

Published result: Heapy's retro-commissioning study started with the Science Center and Fitz Hall and, after their success, 14 more academic buildings, 1,753,900 sq ft in all, through resets, scheduling, setpoint optimization, economizer validation and demand-controlled ventilation: 6,930,900 kWh and 211,300 ccf of natural gas a year (verified through measurement and verification), $798,800 a year in cost savings and a 7-month payback (as reported by Heapy).

Invited: Heapy and the University of Dayton · Read the published case