BUSINESS OWNERS, ENERGY SERVICE COMPANIES, and DEMAND SITE MANAGEMENT FIRMS

FOR BUSINESS OWNERS (an introduction)

Although investments to improve energy efficiency are cost effective and offer attractive rates of return, many profitable investment opportunities are being lost due to broad national, economic and institutional factors which restrict investments in energy efficiency. But the problem of financing may be the major factor causing the slow rate of progress in developing countries in achieving modern standards of energy efficiency. The lack of credit and the inability to obtain financing for projects are strong deterrents to investments in energy efficiency in many countries around the world.

Alternative financing mechanisms have developed because they can overcome the barriers that have inhibited profitable energy efficiency investments. Competition for limited investment capital, uncertainty regarding the types of efficiency technologies and practices most worth adopting, risk aversion, and the lack of motivation on the part of facility owners are all addressed in one fashion or another by the alternative financing techniques: energy services companies and performance contracting. Energy Services Companies (ESCOs) are most often private companies that provide comprehensive energy efficiency or load reduction services to customers that own or operate facilities such as factories and buildings. Performance contracting is an agreement for an energy cost saving retrofit where the project may be financed through reduction of energy cost. In one type of agreement, a shared savings contract, the savings in excess of the finance charge are shared between the ESCO and owner. In other types of agreements the minimum annual savings are guaranteed by the ESCO. Variations on the contract allow either the ESCO or owner to provide any one of the project components including: project identification, financing, project engineering, construction management, project measurement and evaluation, commissioning and maintenance.

Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and Associations

National Association of Energy Service Companies

Erbin Keith
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Houston, TX
: Thomas W. Mitchell
President
Las Vegas, NV
: Alan Henning
Associate Program Manager
Augusta, ME
: Donald Gilligan
President
Boston, MA
: Robert P. Lewis, II
Director, Major Energy Projects
Baltimore, MD
: Tim Clemons
Director
Overland Park, KS
: Trevor M. Foster
Executive Vice President
Norwalk, CT
: George Cashman
Vice President
Financial Products and Services
Edison, NJ
: John Tastad
President of Sales
Overland Park, KS 66210; James H. Gamble
Vice President, Marketing
Minneapolis, MN
: Robert F. Edwards
Director, Project Development
San Diego, CA
: Thomas K. Dreessen
Chief Executive Officer
King of Prussia, PA
: Charles B. Steen
Director
Jackson, MS
: Edward T. Liston
President
Lowell, MA
: Kerry R. Wilson Product Manager
Glenn Allen, VA

EXCEL ENERGY

John Haney
General Manager
North Palm Beach, FL
: Thomas W. Philbin
President
Natick, MA
: Susan Engeleiter
Vice President,
Government Markets
Minneapolis, MN
: David E. Matasek
Manager, Utility Services
Milwaukee, WI
: Bob Dixon
Director, Performance Contracting
Buffalo Grove, IL
: Daniel P. Skaar
General Manager
Porter, IN 46304; George P. Sakellaris
President & CEO
Framingham, MA
: Richard T. Sperberg
President
Carlsbad, CA
: Daniel W. Parke
President
Glendora, CA
: Wayne N. Brown
CEO
Austin, TX
: Shawn R. Dion
Director, Business Development
Willowdale, ONT CANADA
: David C. Gill
Director of Sales
Loves Park, IL
: Mike Ellis * Billy Wise
General Manager Phone : (404) 506-7236
Atlanta, GA
: S. Lynn Sutcliffe
President and CEO
Somerset, NJ
: James J. Abromitis
President
Baltimore, MD
: Tom Eckhart
Chief Executive Officer
Bellevue, WA
: John Mahoney
President
Riverside, MO

Ralph S. Bosek
Executive Vice President
Tampa, FL
: Blake W. Ross
Director, Business Development,
Governmental & Industrial
Brattleboro, VT
: Michael Montgomery
Managing Director
Dallas, TX
: Jeanette Bennion
General Manager
Reno, NV
: Frank Ehrhardt
Director, Strategic Business Alliances
Oak Brook, IL
: Patrick Doyle Sidney Hinton
Vice President President
Raleigh, NC
: R. Kirk Gregg
Product Manager
Kansas City, MO
: Robert J. Braun
Manager
Jericho, NY
: Paul Ogle
President
Cary, NC
: Chris Salzmann
Manager, Performance Contracting
Topeka, KS

What is Demand-Side Management?

According to Hans Nilsson, Chairman of the IEA DSM Programme, Demand-side Management (DSM) can be looked upon either traditionally, as a tool to be used to change the demand for energy or more generally, as a tool for society to better use and distribute scarce resources. In both cases, at least as far as this Agreement is concerned, the main thrust and reason for DSM activities are due to the necessity to increase energy efficiency and receive better value for the capital invested in the energy system. When implemented by energy utilities, this change might be in the amount of energy used or the pattern of its use. For example, an electric utility may increase the power supply and provide customers with the kWh they ask for or provide better equipment that uses less kWh while providing more service. Or the utility company may seek to change the pattern of energy use by applying straightforward and operationally, simple time-of-use pricing to shift the load. In either case, the objective is to choose the best option to provide energy services at the lowest cost.

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DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT LINKS

Demand-Side Management Programme

Benjamin Hobbs
<http://www.jhu.edu/~dogee/hobbs.html>

Other Energy Efficiency Organizations

E.A.Technology (ref to DSM)
<http://www.eatl.co.uk/>

EUR-OP : ELECTRONIC INFORMATION
<http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/opoce/wel4.html>

Energy International, Inc.
<http://www.energyint.com/>

EPE Home
<http://www.epe.be/EPE/EPE.html>

Welcome to Florida Power & Light Company
<http://www.fpl.com/>

demand side management (DSM) products & systems - ElectricNet
<http://www.electricnet.com/category/dmndside.htm>

International Institute for Energy Conservation Home Page
<http://www.crest.org//clients/iiec/>

Management Applications Consulting Home Page
<http://www.manapp.com/>

The Competitive Enterprise Institute
<http://www.cei.org/>

Solstice: Sustainable Energy and Development Online!
<http://www.crest.org/index.html>

Crest Sustainable Energy Software
<http://solstice.crest.org/software.central/>

MIST Demand-Side Management Page
<http://www.mrtc.org/~mist/dsm.html>

GLOBE International
<http://globeint.org/>

Calif Energy Commission-Restructuring Working Group on Energy Efficiency/Demand Side Management
<http://www.energy.ca.gov/restructuring/efficiency/index.html>

Associations of Energy Service Professionals
<http://www.dnai.com/~harrym/member.html>

Glossaries, events, indexes

Energy Information Administration
<http://eiainfo.eia.doe.gov/>

ACEEE

ACEEEE Press Release August 13, 1996 - New Energy Efficiency Standards for Refrigerators
<http://solstice.crest.org/efficiency/aceee/press/refprsrl.htm>

ACEEE Home Page American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, ACEEE
<http://solstice.crest.org/efficiency/aceee/index.htm>

ACEEE Energy Efficiency Publications Order Form
<http://www.crest.org/efficiency/aceee/pubs/orderfor.htm#ut>

Proceedings -EEEC
<http://www.crest.org/efficiency/aceee/pubs/proceed.htm#1994>

Interesting Papers, Articles

Perspectives on Demand-Side Energy Efficiency
<http://www.entek.chalmers.se/~olbj/thesis.html>

CEI: The Economic Fallacies of Demand-Side Management
<http://www.cei.org/dsm.html>

Critical Review of Utility DSM Programs
<http://solstice.crest.org>

An Introduction to DSM: The Business of Energy Conservation for Electric Utilities
<http://solstice.crest.org/>

Regulatory Incentives for Demand-Side Management
<http://solstice.crest.org/efficiency/aceee/pubs/b16.htm>

Demand-Side Management Action Plan for the Philippines

Achievable Electricity Conservation Potential: The Role of Utility and Non-Utility Programs
<http://solstice.crest.org/>

Is Demand-Side Management Economically Justified?-DEEP- Ed Vine*
<http://eande.lbl.gov/CBS/NEWSLETTER/NL3/DSM.html>

Demand-Side Management at a Crossroads-byHoward Geller, Steven Nadel and Miriam Pye
<http://www.crest.org/efficiency/aceee/pubs/u951.htm>

GLOBE: Lester Brown Guru Lecture-paper
<http://globeint.org/html/guru-lectures/Pimenta.html>

HIGH-VOLTAGE SWINDLE: WHY ELECTRICITY RESTRUCTURING COULD ELECTROCUTE CALIF. RATEPAYERS
<http://www.cato.org/dailys/2-06-97.html>

National Electricity Market code of conduct-paper(NEM) Code of Conduct
<http://www.erin.gov.au/>

TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY ORNL Researcher Studies Electric Utilities' Use Of Dsm
<http://www.ornl.gov/ORNL/Energy_Eff/dsm.html>

div.html-dsm name change
<http://www.dnai.com/~harrym/div.html>

AUSTRALIA

Sustainable Energy Development Authority - SEDA
<http://www.seda.nsw.gov.au/>

UNITED STATES

Demand-Side Management of Electricity: New England
<http://www.colby.edu/personal/thtieten/dsm-ne.html>

Demand-Side Management of Energy: Wisconsin, USA
<http://www.colby.edu/personal/thtieten/dsm-wi.html>

Implications of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 for Utility Demand-Side Management Efforts
<http://solstice.crest.org/>

US DOE 'EREN' The Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
<http://www.eren.doe.gov/>

The Green Power Network-US DOE
<http://www.eren.doe.gov/greenpower/>

Greenpower Marketing Activities-USDOE
<http://www.eren.doe.gov/greenpower/marketing.html>

Other IEA Energy Sites

IEA Greenhouse Gas Programme (v4)
<http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/>

The GREENTIE Directory
<http://www.greentie.org/>

Welcome to CADDET
<http://www.ornl.gov/CADDET/caddet.html>

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EMCOR FACILITIES SERVICES, INC.

Energy Masters Corporation

ENERGY MASTERS INTERNATIONAL

ENERGY PACIFIC

ENERGY PERFORMANCE SERVICES, INC.

ENTERGY RETAIL SERVICES, INC.

EVANTAGE

EXCEL ENERGY

NI ENERGY SERVICES COMPANY

PARKE INDUSTRIES, INC.

SIEBE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS

SOUTHERN COMPANY ENERGY SOLUTIONS

SYCOM ENTERPRISES

TRIGEN ENERGY BALTIMORE

UCONS, L.L.C.

BOSEK, GIBSON AND ASSOCIATES, INC.

ENERGYUSA

ENERSHOP, INC.

E.THREE

ILLINOVA ENERGY PARTNERS, INC.

KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT CO.

KEYSPAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, INC.

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