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Today, institutions of higher education face increased competition for student enrollment, rising costs and limited operating budgets. Maintenance is often deferred on critical aging energy infrastructure, and new energy infrastructure investment is inadequate.
We believe energy needs present opportunities to reduce operating costs, invest in facility and infrastructure improvements, and increase competitiveness and have the technological and financial expertise to help colleges and universities seize these opportunities.
Constellation Energy helps you reduce energy costs through an integrated, systematic approach that meets your objectives. Our teams of energy experts identify and recommend comprehensive and creative solutions that best meet the specific energy challenges our customers face. We offer a wide-reaching array of energy projects covering multiple technologies and scenarios—many of which are paid from the guaranteed savings that they generate.
Energy Audits: A thorough examination of your energy usage from point of procurement to final end-use is a crucial first step toward identifying energy conservation opportunities, reducing energy costs, and upgrading aging energy infrastructure.
Energy Performance Contracting (EPC): Constellation has a long and successful history of EPC projects, which preserve limited budget dollars and pay for needed capital energy improvements from savings produced by the project. Performance contracting can cover all project costs including financing, operations, maintenance, and measurement and verification.
Central Energy Plant Outsourcing: Customers across North America rely on our expertise to reduce risk, realize savings, free capital for reinvestment and help them regain control of expenditures and operations. Outsourcing provides you with the means to improve financial performance while increasing safety and satisfaction.
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Renewable Energy Resources: Constellation has significant experience bringing renewable and sustainable energy resources to campus energy infrastructures. Our renewable expertise includes geothermal heat pumps, biomass fuel, photovoltaic, solar heating, and passive and active daylight systems.
Our skill at matching energy management requirements with the right financial solutions has resulted in some noteworthy successes.
Multi-building, multi-phase capital improvement projects which includes the replacement of major HVAC equipment, installation of new fire suppression and alarm systems, retrofitting lighting systems, and integrating new DDC building management systems—with network capabilities for a campus-wide building monitoring and management system.
Under a performance contract arrangement, Constellation undertook multiple projects involving more than 40 buildings. We reduced energy costs by more than 10 percent over a five-year period, resulting in $1.9 million in annual cost savings.
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