Energy Service Companies (ESCOs)
General Information:EMC Engineers, operating in Colorado since 1976, offers a comprehensive range of facility engineering services to its industrial, commercial, institutional, and government clients. EMC is a multi-disciplinary firm, with a primary commitment to energy engineering, performance contracting, design, and construction expertise in mechanical, electrical, and control systems retrofit and modernization. Additional services EMC provides include ground source heat pump design (GeoExchange), commissioning, and indoor air quality analysis. EMC is a Rebuild America Premier Partner and an ENERGY STAR® Partner. EMC has 11 certified energy managers, and 7 LEED™-accredited engineers on staff.
Awards:EMC was recognized in June 2005 as a Premier Allied Partner of Rebuild America (DOE), for excellence in promoting energy-efficiency and renewable-energy technologies and practices. At the 2000 American Council of Engineering Companies Engineers Excellence Awards, EMC received a Merit Award for its work on an HVAC upgrade project for the Olympic Training Center's aquatics facility, in Colorado Springs. In 2002 EMC was a co-sponsor of the University of Colorado's Solar Decathlon team, which took first place in the 2002 National Intercollegiate Solar Decathlon competition. A recent Poudre School District commissioning project earned an ENERGY STAR® certification with a score of 97. Recent projects:Recent Colorado performance contract projects of note include lighting retrofits, HVAC upgrades, evaporative cooling, and commissioning for various schools in the Limon School District; lighting retrofits, boiler upgrades, window replacement, and energy management control system for facilities in the East Yuma County School District; HVAC upgrades for the Cheyenne County School District High School and Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital; and HVAC upgrades, lighting retrofit and controls, and ventilation improvements for elementary through high school facilities in the following school districts: West Grand, Monte Vista, Yuma, Cheraw, and Crowley, and for Franklin Park Residential Tower. Use of savings guarantees:EMC requires that monitoring, verification, service, and maintenance agreements be incorporated into any performance contract that includes savings guarantees. Savings guarantees are based on 90% of projected savings, with the guarantee acting as insurance to cover the amount of savings not met, should there be any. Savings above the guarantee can be applied to the following year's savings or renegotiated. Financing options:EMC offers a broad range of financing options to clients, including but not limited to tax-free municipal lease-purchase agreements, grants from national and state governments, utility rebate programs, certificates of participation, revenue bonds, and conventional lending options. EMC excels in combining various funding sources in order to buy down the cost of the project to the customer. Examples include utility rebates and lease purchase agreements or lottery monies and grants. For more information, visit www.emcengineers.com. |
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