The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) offers resources to help federal agencies plan and implement distributed energy projects.

Also see FEMP's collections of case studies, publications, and tools.

Tools

Renewable Energy Optimization Tool
Identifies and prioritizes renewable energy projects at a single site or across a portfolio of sites in cities, states, or countries.
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Levelized Cost of Energy Calculator
Compares the combination of capital costs, operations and maintenance, performance, and fuel costs
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Decision Tree for Optimizing Solar Photovoltaic Systems
Tool helps agencies manage existing solar photovoltaic systems, benchmark performance, manage needed repairs, and adopt ongoing best practices.
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Renewable Energy Maps
Maps allow users to explore U.S. renewable energy resources including biomass, geothermal, hydrogen, marine and hydrokinetic, solar, and wind.
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FEMP Screening Map
Examines the viability of three solar technologies in the U.S. with a high-level annualized economic calculation
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PVWatts
Estimates the energy production and cost of energy of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) energy systems throughout the world.
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Create Technical Specifications for On-site Solar Photovoltaic Systems
Customizable template for federal government agencies seeking the construction of one or more on-site solar PV systems.
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Federal Utility Carbon Pollution-Free Electricity Program Availability Map
A map listing clean energy purchasing programs offered by vertically integrated utilities (i.e., those responsible for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in their service territory).
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Documents

Developing Renewable Energy Projects Larger Than 10 MWs at Federal Facilities
Guide provides a framework for federal government, private developers, and financiers to coordinate on large-scale renewable energy projects.
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Guide to Integrating Renewable Energy in Federal Construction
Guide for federal agencies in selecting and integrating renewable energy technologies within new construction or major renovation projects.
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Financing Microgrids in the Federal Sector
Report explores procurement options and agreements that may be useful to federal agencies interested in implementing microgrids at their sites.
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FEMP/GSA PV Vulnerabilities Guide
Guide helps agencies identify and correct existing solar PV vulnerabilities in order to avoid or minimize damage from severe weather.
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Understanding Solar Photovoltaic System Performance: An Assessment of 75 Federal Photovoltaic Systems
Report analyzes 75 PV systems based on system production data collected as part of a FEMP Federal PV Performance Assessment project.
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ESPC ESA Toolkit
Provides federal acquisition team members with information to facilitate energy savings performance contract energy sales agreements (ESPC ESAs).
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O&M Request for Proposal Template for Government-Owned Solar PV Systems
Customizable template for federal government agencies seeking O&M services for their solar PV systems.
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BESS Procurement Checklist
Provides federal agencies with a standard set of tasks, questions, and reference points to assist in the early stages of battery energy storage systems (BESS) project development.
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BESS Evaluation Method
Report describes a proposed method for evaluating the performance of a deployed battery energy storage system (BESS) or solar photovoltaic (PV) plus BESS system.
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BESS Technical Specifications Template
Customizable template for federal government agencies seeking to procure lithium-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS).
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Distributed Energy Interconnection Checklist
Checklist provides federal site managers with a series of tasks and questions to ask their utility, broken out by each interconnection process step.
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Technical Specifications for On-site Wind Turbine Installations
Customizable template for federal government agencies seeking to install wind turbines.
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Toward Solar Photovoltaic Storm Resilience: Learning from Hurricane Loss and Rebuilding Better
Case study focuses on the rebuild of a 469 kW ground array located at the Almeric L. Christian Federal Building in Christiansted, St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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On-site Wind Energy Project Feasibility Checklist
Checklist provides federal agency staff with a series of questions to answer when considering an on-site wind energy generation project.
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O&M Agreement Considerations for On-site Wind Energy Projects
Provides considerations when drafting an operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement with a third party for the servicing of an on-site, government agency-owned, grid-connected, size-neutral wind turbine.
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Fact Sheets

FEMP's Distributed Energy Program
Fact sheet describes the Federal Energy Management Program's Distributed Energy Program for on-site renewable energy and energy storage technologies.
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Considerations for Implementing PV Plus Storage Systems at Federal Buildings and Campuses
Fact sheet discusses valuation, sizing, and dispatching of solar photovoltaic (PV) plus battery storage systems for federal agency sites.
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Energy Savings Performance Contract Energy Sales Agreements
Fact sheet describes how the Federal Energy Management Program helps agencies implement energy savings performance contract energy sales agreements.
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Houston, We Have a Problem—and a Solution: Solar Performance Initiative Helps Federal Building Boost Rooftop Production
Fact sheet describes evaluating and optimizing a PV system on the Mickey Leland Federal Building.
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Kickstart Your Federal Microgrid Project
Fact sheet provides an overview and actionable next steps in the microgrid implementation process.
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