Your Pathway to a Green Building.
Expert Guidance for Your Energy Efficiency Investment.
Navigating the complexities of energy efficiency is a challenge. That’s why Connecticut Green Bank has partnered with OCOsink to provide building owners with the resources they need to develop and manage energy projects.
By leveraging OCOsink’s Energy Program Facilitation (EPF) services, complex energy concepts are translated into actionable projects with measurable results, empowering building owners to achieve their energy goals, while maintaining focus on core business activities. This comprehensive solution is the most cost-effective way to professionally engineer and manage energy efficiency and decarbonization projects, while also taking advantage of the benefits of C-PACE financing.
C-PACE Financing is Key
With C-PACE financing, building owners can cover up to 100% of energy improvement costs with low interest rates and terms up to 25 years repaid through a voluntary benefit assessment. C-PACE enables property owners to fund well-designed energy improvement projects that are cash flow positive.
Plus, Green Bank will provide an interest rate reduction to any project that combines EPF services and C-PACE financing. This interest rate reduction can offset costs of EPF services, while also resulting in better financial returns on energy investments.
OCOsink’s EPF services are value-driven and tailored to your property’s needs, providing technical and project management expertise throughout all aspects of your project’s timeline and includes:
Project Development
Engineering and Procurement
Implementation Oversight
Performance Assurance
- Perform a study to identify energy opportunities
- Analyze energy use & discuss emissions reduction strategies
- Identify significant energy users (SEUs) and explore decarbonization
- Address comfort issues and aging HVAC
- Ensure the project meets expectations and budget
- Finalize design intent based on energy audit findings
- Create preliminary designs based on finalized specifications
- Develop funding strategy with incentives, grants, and C-PACE financing
- Evaluate and select contractors
- Negotiate and finalize contracts with contractors
- Perform construction oversight
- Monitor and report on construction progress
- Ensure quality control throughout the project
- Provide commissioning agent services
- Monitor project savings post-implementation
- Provide warranty support
- Collaborate with the energy management team post-construction
- Maintain implemented measures for sustainability
Who should utilize EPF services?
- Manufacturers who want to reduce operating costs to increase profitability without dedicating manpower to manage a large-scale initiative.
- Non-profits who have aging HVAC systems and want to improve comfort.
- Building owners who want to be more efficient, reduce carbon footprint but do not know where to start.
- Building owners who seek to do more with less. Upgraded building systems have less maintenance and it is more efficient to operate.
FAQs & Contact Us
EPF helps building owners with developing impactful energy efficiency projects that encompass all building systems. Our team focuses on replacing end-of-life building systems, optimizing industrial heating and cooling processes, central plant optimizations, building automation, and more.
Energy efficiency measures can reduce operational costs, improve building comfort (e.g. air quality), and decrease your organization’s carbon footprint, enhancing overall sustainability and profitability.
Projects developed and implemented through EPF will benefit from a 0.75% interest rate reduction on C-PACE financing. This partnership aims to make energy efficiency projects more affordable, thereby increasing their adoption and accelerating decarbonization efforts.
EPF is a comprehensive service provided by OCOsink that guides organizations through the entire process of developing and implementing energy efficiency projects. The goal is to develop the most impactful project where the savings exceed the cost of the investment.
EPF supports every stage of the project lifecycle, including scoping studies, funding, contractor procurement, commissioning, and performance testing. This ensures effective execution and delivers the expected energy savings.
EPF contributes to developing and achieving sustainability goals by creating a strategy driven by the business’s values and investment criteria. We identify and implement energy-saving measures, help to secure financing, and ensure effective execution, reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Yes! C-PACE financing can be combined with other grants and incentives, including those from the utility providers. We are experts at securing incentives for our customers.
If you sell your building, the C-PACE assessment remains with the property, and the new owner continues to benefit from the energy improvements while repaying the assessment.
