CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT OF DOE's SUPER ESPC PROGRAM THROUGH PROJECT FACILITATION

摘要

Since the inception of the Super Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) Program in 1997, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has established six regional and three technology-specific Super ESPCs. Dozens of federal agency sites are now in the process of developing Super ESPC delivery orders. Each Super ESPC project is a partnership between a federal agency's acquisition team and an energy service company (ESCO). A DOE project facilitator is assigned to educate the agency team, serve as the agency's representative or consultant, and lead it through the delivery order process to successful completion of the energy-efficiency project. The accumulated experience of the acquisition teams and DOE's project facilitators is beginning to contribute to the Federal Energy Management Program's (FEMP's) efforts to improve and streamline the Super ESPC Program. This paper describes what DOE project facilitators have learned about the areas where agency teams are requiring the most help and describes the strategies project facilitators are using to assure project and overall program success through continual improvement.