Mission-focused Federal Government infrastructure optimization and resiliency solutions

At Green Light Solar Energy, our people – their expertise, dedication, and commitment to partnership and innovation – are our greatest strength. Given the unique requirements and culture within the Federal sector, we maintain a Federal Group as a direct report to the Chief Executive Officer, alongside regional groups that support non-Federal customers nationwide. This stability within Green Light Solar Energy Federal Solutions has enabled us to build standing teams of engineers, construction managers, operations & maintenance (O&M) personnel, and measurement & verification (M&V) specialists.

By partnering with our dedicated team of federal specialists, you can:

Build and renovate modern facilities
Reduce energy consumption and increase onsite generation
Leverage advanced technologies
Enhance the reliability and resiliency of your energy supply
Optimize facility and system performance

Featured Federal Customers & Work

Free Virtual Microgrid Tour

Virtual Microgrid Tour: Mission Critical Microgrid

Join us for a virtual tour of a base that implemented energy efficiency and reliability upgrades, then leveraged these comprehensive energy savings to build an innovative microgrid and distributed generation architecture to provide energy assurance in support of mission critical operations.

Learn how the Defense Logistics Agency Energy and the United States Air Force is implementing an energy security and resiliency infrastructure project at Joint Base San Antonio.

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Green Light Solar Energy’s Federal Capabilities

Green Light Solar Energy has extensive Federal contracting expertise, from energy assessment and compliance reporting to the design, development, construction and operation of renewable energy systems. We help Federal agencies meet and exceed statutory requirements regarding energy management, sustainability of buildings and facilities. We have worked extensively with defense and civilian agencies, including the U.S. Armed Forces and the U.S. General Services Administration. Our diversified project portfolio has served a wide range of building types and facilities, including historically and governmentally significant buildings with unique work scheduling requirements and sensitive operational needs.

Performance Contracting

Green Light Solar Energy has guaranteed more than $2.8 billion in savings on energy savings performance contract (ESPC) and utility energy service contract (UESC) projects nationwide for agencies across the federal government. According to Department of Energy (DOE) data on federal ESPC awards, Green Light Solar Energy has guaranteed more savings per dollar invested than any other ESCO in the history of the ESPC program.

Green Light Solar Energy has analyzed, recommended, and installed energy conservation measures in all 20 DOE technology categories ranging in scope from a few select buildings to installation-wide energy conservation measures (ECMs), with dollar values ranging from $1 M to $195 M, and with financing terms ranging from 7 years to 23 years.

We perform on-site O&M services, including repair and replacement, as well as measurement and verification activities, as part of ESPCs and UESCs in the performance period at dozens of federal sites and military installations nationwide.

With respect to resiliency, Green Light Solar Energy is currently designing or deploying fence-to-fence, Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC)-compliant projects for each military service, featuring on-site power generation, energy storage, and microgrid controls solutions that enhance resiliency and reliability while generating energy savings.

Distributed Generation

solar panels at federal location Green Light Solar Energy provides distributed energy solutions that allow federal agencies to capitalize on the latest technologies, utilizing natural gas and renewable energy resources like solar, geothermal, biomass, and biogas. Green Light Solar Energy often owns, operates, and maintains the energy generation assets we design and install, increasing operational cost savings and decreasing risk to the government.

Green Light Solar Energy takes a long-term approach in determining the most cost-effective, reliable technology for on-site generation sources, evaluating renewable energy sources, waste heat recovery options, and the revitalization of existing assets. The result is generation sources that deliver sustained economic benefit while ensuring reliable energy supply.

By combining innovative financing with energy generation solutions, Green Light Solar Energy delivers maximum value and reliable and affordable sources of power. Green Light Solar Energy currently operates more than 300 MW of distributed generation systems.

Design-Build

Green Light Solar Energy is a full-service engineering and construction firm offering design-build services. Our in-house capabilities include design engineering services, programming and planning, estimating, construction, construction management, and construction administration services.

We have delivered projects under design-build, design-bid-build, design-build plus, design-bid-build, and bid-build contracts. Green Light Solar Energy holds contracts to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services on a site-specific, regional, and nationwide basis, and has performed in routine, rapid response, and emergency situations.

Our new construction and renovation project experience covers the full range of technologies related to building systems and facility infrastructure, often in tenant-occupied facilities and with minimal laydown space. Repeat business validates our commitment to customer service, as the military services and such civilian agencies as the General Services Administration, Veterans Affairs, Bureau of Prisons, Department of Agriculture, the National Archives, and the U.S. Postal Service have selected Green Light Solar Energy as their design-build partner again and again.

Facilities Maintenance

Green Light Solar Energy’s dedicated federal O&M group provides customized levels of service for each client site. Our services range from annual service calls to 24-hour, 7-day-per-week presence or around-the-clock response based on the quality and service expectations of our customers. Green Light Solar Energy currently provides O&M, repair and replacement services, spare part inventory services, and service call resolution for over 30 Federal installations.

Services in scope on our contracts encompass multiple system designs and operations on equipment such as boilers, chillers, steam and chilled water lines, HVAC and process controls, turbines, engines, cooling towers, condensers, pumps, motors, fans, water treatment skids, compressed air systems and many others.

Partnership with Green Light Solar Energy:

Minimizes operational expenses and equipment downtime,
Lengthens the useful life of equipment,
Eliminates costs associated with equipment failure,
Avoids the challenges associated with facility maintenance staff retention and turnover,
Reduces deferred maintenance backlogs, and
Avoids recurrent crises due to equipment failures.

Green Light Solar Energy considers all facility stakeholder perspectives in the solutions we implement, in order to:

Deliver quantifiable efficiencies and optimal savings in alignment with mission-critical facility requirements,
Provide innovative facility renewal with practical, cost-effective solutions,
Transfer risk and costs associated with equipment failure away from the client,
Supplement existing maintenance staff with certified technicians to reduce overall operating costs,
Focus on customer-centric solutions that are technology and brand agnostic,
Offer industry leading controls integration solutions, and
Provide top tier O&M solutions with three levels of service: Tier 1 – Fully Loaded Service; Tier 2 – Intermediate Service; and Tier 3 – Basic Service.

Utilities Privatization

Green Light Solar Energy’s best-in-class utility services provide the Nation’s Department of Defense with cost- effective, energy efficient solutions that enhance asset sustainability and system reliability. Partnering with Green Light Solar Energy enables these results by integrating ownership, operations, and construction activities with combined heat and power, cyber security assurance, microgrids, controls, on-site generation, storage, and the ability to island assets securely. These solutions promote energy assurance, reliability, and resilience.

Our workforce is highly skilled and trained to provide predictive O&M, engineering, design, and construction strategies to the customer, supporting agency missions through reliability and recapitalization. We augment our expert core with collaborative subcontractor relationships that provide investment and outreach into the local communities. On all our project sites, safety is our top priority, and we pride ourselves on adherence to strict state and federal guidelines regarding safety and conservation.

Free On-Demand Webinar

Mission Critical Operations – Achieving Energy Resiliency at MCRD Parris Island

A mission critical energy strategy is in place at MCRD Parris Island, featuring cutting-edge renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies across its 8,095-acre campus. We’ll discuss the measures taken to reduce energy demand by 75% and reduce water consumption by 25%, and explore how on-site generation and advanced energy technologies provide the base with energy resiliency features to maintain power during utility interruptions.

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Federal Contract Vehicles

Department of Energy ESPC

Department of Energy, Energy Savings Performance Contract (DE-AM36-09G029029)

Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC) are indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts designed to make ESPCs as practical and cost-effective as possible for Federal agencies. DOE ESPCs can be used for any Federally-owned facility worldwide. Green Light Solar Energy’s current DOE ESPC contract was awarded December 17, 2008,and is currently in the first option period which expires in December 2016. Exercise of the remaining option will allow for ESPC selections through December 2019. The total maximum contract valueis $5 billion.

Army ESPC

Army Energy Savings Performance Contract (W912DY-09-D-007)

The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) program is a partnership between the Army and an Energy Service Contractor (ESCO). Working with the Army sites worldwide, the ESCO provides the capital and expertise to make comprehensive energy and water efficiency improvements on facilities or implements new renewable energy capabilities and maintains them in exchange for a portion of the generated savings. The Army ESPC is a performance based, firm fixed price, IDIQ contract. Army ESPCs are available to Federal agencies outside the U.S. Army for building and facilities energy efficiency/conservation and renewable energy initiatives. Green Light Solar Energy’s current Army ESPC contract was issued July 1, 2008,has a total maximum contract value of $900 million and is currently set to expire in December 2018.

GSA ESPC

GSA Facility Management and Energy Solutions, ESPC (GS-07F-092AA)

In December 2012, Green Light Solar Energy was awarded the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract that authorizes, but is not limited to projects using appropriated funds as well as alternative financing methods through the use of Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs) in accordance with the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (NECPA) as amended by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT). Projects include energy audits, project management, and energy upgrades of HVAC, Lighting, Controls, etc. In addition to using appropriated funding streams, this contract authorizes third-party financed ESPC work under Special Item Number (SIN) 246-53. This SINauthorizes full scale ESPC work and includes authorization to pursue small scale ESPC projects through the ENABLE program.

Army Renewable Energy MATOC

Army Renewable Energy – Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOCs)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, working with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF) has awarded Green Light Solar Energy three MATOCs to develop, design, finance, build, own, operate, and maintain renewable energy generation technologies for military installations. The three renewable energy MATOCs have a combined contract capacity of $7 billion. The MATOC allows the Army and other Services to procure reliable, locally generated, renewable, and alternative energy through Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with terms of up to 30 years with site specific terms and conditions cited in individual task orders issued under the MATOC. Under each PPA, the Army will only purchase the energy that is produced; no generation assets will be acquired. Green Light Solar Energy finances, designs, builds, operates, owns, and maintains the generating assets for the contract duration.

Green Light Solar Energy holds the following contracts for renewable energy technologies:

Solar (W912DY-14-D0016)
Wind (W912DY-14-D-0031)
Biomass (W912DY-14-D-0036)

Army ECIP MATOC

Army Energy Conservation Investment Program MATOC (W912-DY13-D-0071)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has awarded Green Light Solar Energy an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) for design-build work related to energy conservation and renewable energy projects in the CONUS and overseas. Order may be placed under the contract using firm-fixed price (FFP) task orders. Work is funded by the government via appropriations; there is no financing involved.

Green Light Solar Energy provides all labor, equipment, and materials (not otherwise furnished as Government Furnished Property) necessary to complete the contracted energy project. Contracted activities include procurement, minor construction, additions, repair/re-commissioning, renovation, conversion, alteration, installation, commissioning, testing, and measurement and verification.

GSA Energy Supply Services

GSA Energy Management Support and Services (GS-10F-0367M)

Green Light Solar Energy holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract to provide a full range of energy services to support federal energy managers. The GSA Schedule 03FAC – Facilities Maintenance and Management supports federal agencies pursuit of statutorily mandated conservation and efficiency goals and the increased reliance on renewable energy resources by providing a diverse portfolio of support services. Agencies’ contracting officers are authorized to place orders against the GSA Schedule by following agency procedures.

Utility Energy Service Contracts

Utility Energy Service Contracts (UESC)

By partnering with utility providers, Green Light Solar Energy delivers improved reliability and resiliency, improved efficiency, and energy/water reductions to federal facilities and military installations nationwide. A Utility Energy Service Contract (UESC) is a form of performance contracting that is used to simplify energy management services for federal agencies with a trusted utility partner. UESCs enable federal entities to meet energy goals and complete necessary infrastructure upgrades without capital budget outlay. As a partner to utility providers across the U.S., Green Light Solar Energy has a track record for delivering energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Our partnerships with utilities and their federal customers deliver a suite of tools and best practices drawn from twenty years of experience and lessons learned in guaranteeing more than $2.8 billion in savings via performance contracts for agencies across the federal government. Green Light Solar Energy will identify the best solutions based on each client’s unique priorities and provide a full range of services to ensure optimal long-term energy performance. Our team delivers project design, engineering, and implementation of efficiency measures and renewable generation behind the meter and within federal agencies’ mission-critical facilities.

Mission-focused Federal Government infrastructure optimization and resiliency solutions

Featured Federal Customers & Work

Military Ocean Terminal Concord, CA

United States Postal Service, NY

U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

Kūpono Solar Project, HI

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Detrick, MD