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The Federal Energy Management Program's (FEMP) Distributed Energy and Energy Procurement initiative helps federal agencies accomplish their missions through investment in lasting and reliable energy-generation projects and purchases.
For more than 30 years, FEMP has helped federal agencies with renewable energy projects. FEMP continues to support agencies with identifying and implementing distributed energy projects, including on-site renewable energy, storage, and combined heat and power technologies utilizing all available on-site project financing options.
FEMP also supports federal agencies with energy procurement, specifically off-site clean energy procurement options.
FEMP provides resources and assistance to federal agencies based on current federal laws and requirements, agency needs and missions, and government best practices.
Read FEMP's Distributed Energy Program fact sheet.
FEMP’s six-phase process for implementing distributed energy projects.
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Details this project structure, similar to a power purchase agreement, which uses the ESPC authority to implement distributed energy projects
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Information and key resources to develop strategies for meeting the renewable electricity requirement.
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Request technical assistance from FEMP for a federal distributed energy project.
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Lists tools and documents to help federal agencies plan and implement distributed energy projects.
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Describes technologies that provide energy-efficient options for federal sites.
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Explains how distributed energy resources, such as renewable energy technologies, storage, and combined heat and power, can benefit federal agencies.
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Covers how to measure PV performance and optimize it with an operations and maintenance plan.
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Shows how agencies are progressing toward their renewable electricity goals.
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Key Resources
Provides an overview of the areas of the United States most at risk from severe winter weather and summarizes various approaches that can be taken to address these hazards throughout the entire photovoltaic production lifecycle.
Checklist provides federal agency staff with a series of questions to answer when considering an on-site wind energy generation project.
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.
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.
Outlines how to establish a connection between remote solar photovoltaic sites and the internet through possible cyber-secure network options.
Outlines measures and best practices that can be taken to limit damage to solar photovoltaic (PV) modules.
Success story highlighting FEMP technical assistance to examine the potential for distributed energy resources at U.S. General Services Administration facilities.
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).
Describes the features available in commercial monitoring platforms for solar photovoltaics (PV), the costs associated with setting up and operating a monitoring system, and the benefits that an agency can realize from such a system.
Success story highlights how a well-designed PV and battery storage system saves energy, enhances resilience, and maintains critical operations in severe weather in Puerto Rico's El Yunque National Forest.
Tool helps facility owners and resilience planners understand the costs of an electric grid outage at their site and take the first step in calculating the resilience benefits of a redundant system.
On-site electricity contracts enable federal agencies with authority to purchase their own utility services to purchase electricity from third-party owned generation.
The Climate Smart Buildings Initiative will leverage public-private partnerships to modernize Federal buildings to better meet agencies' missions, create good-paying jobs, and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Covers how on-site solar photovoltaic (PV) systems can be made more resilient to severe weather events.
Customizable template for federal government agencies seeking the construction of one or more on-site solar PV systems.
Customizable template for federal government agencies seeking to procure lithium-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Report analyzes 75 PV systems based on system production data collected as part of a FEMP Federal PV Performance Assessment project.
Animation simulates grid-connected and islanded energy flows among distributed energy resources at a military base—while connected to the grid, and while islanded during a grid disturbance.
Tool helps agencies manage existing solar photovoltaic systems, benchmark performance, manage needed repairs, and adopt ongoing best practices.
Guide helps agencies identify and correct existing solar PV vulnerabilities in order to avoid or minimize damage from severe weather.
Checklist provides federal site managers with a series of tasks and questions to ask their utility, broken out by each interconnection process step.
Case studies describe renewable energy and efficiency projects implemented through a National Park Service partnership with FEMP.
Report explores procurement options and agreements that may be useful to federal agencies interested in implementing microgrids at their sites.
Fact sheet describes the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s 2.5-MW photovoltaic system at their El Paso Intelligence Center in El Paso, Texas.
Online tool designed to help find the most cost-effective and resilient energy solution for a specific site.
Fact sheet highlights how NIST installed a 5-MW photovoltaic system using an energy savings performance contract energy sales agreement.
Fact sheet describes how the Federal Energy Management Program helps agencies implement energy savings performance contract energy sales agreements.
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