Hospital & Campus Energy Procurement Summit

The problem: More than 13 federal agencies, including Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration, needed long-term power for the sites they own or operate in five states, with protection against future price hikes.

Published result: A 10-year, $840 million contract, the largest in GSA history, supplying more than 1 million MWh a year beginning in 2025 (as reported by Constellation)

Invited: Constellation and the U.S. General Services Administration · Read the published case

The problem: The city set out to buy 100% renewable electricity for its own buildings and operations starting in 2025, including O'Hare and Midway airports.

Published result: A supply agreement with an initial five-year term; from 2025 the airports, the Harold Washington Library Center and the Jardine Water Purification Plant are partly supplied by Swift Current Energy's 593 MW Double Black Diamond Solar project, with RECs for smaller buildings and streetlights; the city expects to cut its carbon footprint by more than 290,000 metric tons a year (as reported by Constellation)

Invited: Constellation and Swift Current Energy, with the City of Chicago · Read the published case

The problem: Purchased electricity was the biggest lever in the university's climate action plan toward carbon neutrality by 2050, and it wanted regional renewable supply at a competitive price.

Published result: A multi-year renewable electric energy agreement with ENGIE Resources, designed and executed after a competitive bid by the university's independent consultant Evolution Energy Partners: 50 percent of the approximately 52,000 MWh Villanova buys through ENGIE comes from Brookfield Renewable's 252 MW Holtwood Hydroelectric plant in Lancaster County, serving the Main, West and South campuses and The Inn at Villanova; no price or savings figure published (as reported by Villanova University and ENGIE Resources, April 2020).

Invited: ENGIE Resources and Villanova University, with Evolution Energy Partners · Read the published case

The problem: Purchased electricity is roughly a third of Swarthmore's emissions, and the solar farm is too far away to deliver power to the campuses directly.

Published result: NextEra Energy Resources' 150 MW Sebree Solar II in Henderson County, Kentucky began operating on Aug. 7, 2026, under a PPA for the nine colleges coordinated by ERM Coho; Swarthmore receives renewable energy credits equal to 85.6% of its campus electricity (as reported by Swarthmore College in Renewable Energy Magazine)

Invited: NextEra Energy Resources and ERM, with Swarthmore College · Read the published case

The problem: The Peoria-based health system wanted to cut utility costs and air pollution and support Illinois' shift to clean energy.

Published result: A 20-year agreement for more than 24 MW across 14 Illinois community solar projects; OSF will receive approximately $450,000 a year in savings starting in late 2025, about $9 million over the term (projected) (as reported by Summit Ridge Energy)

Invited: Summit Ridge Energy and OSF HealthCare · Read the published case

The problem: The four-hospital, not-for-profit system needed to control costs while meeting its sustainability goals.

Published result: Long-term community solar agreements for three Illinois solar farms, with bill credits at a guaranteed fixed discount; estimated savings of $119,000 a year (as reported by Nexamp)

Invited: Nexamp and Southern Illinois Healthcare · Read the published case

The problem: Utility data for about 16,000 meters, 4,000 facilities and more than 10,000 accounts was scattered across agencies.

Published result: With EnergyCAP and its Bill CAPture service, chosen in 2019: about 2,300 unknown meters found, a gas refund of over $200,000, up to $40,000 from a meter multiplier error, $15,000 recovered for a sold facility that was still being paid, and a 6.2% statewide consumption reduction in FY2020 (as reported by EnergyCAP)

Invited: EnergyCAP and the Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute, with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Read the published case

The problem: Natural gas costs at the state prison jumped from about $100,000 to over $400,000 a year, even though the site's systems and gas meter checked out.

Published result: Limbach engineers, using JadeTrack data, found the gas volumes had been corrected twice, at the meter and again in billing; the utility agreed and refunded $380,000 in overcharges (as reported by IGS Energy)

Invited: IGS Energy (JadeTrack) and Limbach, with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction · Read the published case

The problem: Oversight of 1,091 electric and gas accounts, seven solar accounts and more than 200 internet, telephone and data accounts was spread across departments, raising the risk of pricing errors, over-billing and obsolete services.

Published result: The city's Office of Audit and Control hired Troy & Banks for a utility forensic audit of its National Grid, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Spectrum Enterprise and First Light accounts: estimated annual savings totaling $254,000, $7,757 in credits for National Grid overbilling, $8,462 in tax violation credits, about $13,656 in tax refunds filed with the IRS, $14,000 a month saved on First Light and $3,638 a month on Verizon accounts, and 99 wireless lines found unused (as reported by the City of Albany Office of Audit and Control, November 2024).

Invited: Troy & Banks and the City of Albany · Read the published case