March 25, 2002—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that five energy service companies have been selected to use performance-based contracts to reduce energy use, manage utility costs, and promote renewable energy at federal facilities by using biomass and alternative methane energy sources. Biomass includes dedicated energy crops and trees, agricultural crop residues, aquatic plants, wood and wood residues, animal wastes, and other organic waste materials. Alternative methane is generated in landfills, wastewater treatment plants, and coalbeds.
The contracts encourage innovative, bio-based energy technologies to reduce federal energy consumption, without cost to the American taxpayers, DOE says.
The energy service companies selected for the Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) program for biomass and alternative methane are: Constellation Energy Source, Baltimore, Md.; DTE Biomass Energy Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich.; Energy Systems Group, Evansville, Ind.; Systems Engineering and Management Corporation, Knoxville, Tenn.; and Trigen Development Corporation, Baltimore, Md.
Under the contracts, the companies will receive fixed payments derived from the energy cost savings achieved.
For more information on the Biomass and Alternative Methane ESPC, visit DOE’s Federal Energy Management Plan Web site.
