Con Edison awards $30 million contract for energy efficiency programme
US utility Con Edison has awarded consulting firm ICF with a $30 million contract for the management and implementation of the energy firm’s residential consumer energy efficiency programme.
ICF and Con Edison have partnered on energy efficiency projects implementation and optimisation over the past 15 years.
The contract means ICF will continue with project delivery, engineering, marketing, information technology, customer care and incentive processing.
ICF will help Con Edison to expand its energy efficiency offerings outside the utility’s 3.5 million customers in New York City and Westchester County to consumers being served by subsidiaries across New York state and New Jersey.
Energy efficiency is a vital tool Con Edison seeks to leverage to improve consumer services, grid reliability, and to ensure more renewable energy capacity is added onto the grid to meet sustainability targets.
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The contract follows Con Edison filing a proposal with the New York State Public Service Commission to invest an additional $1.2 billion in services modernisation.
The $1.2 billion would also cover increasing incentives for consumer energy efficiency retrofits which include the installation of energy management systems, HVAC control systems, LED lighting, smart thermostats, smart boilers and insulation.
The utility has a plan to triple its energy efficiency programmes by investing over $1.5 billion by 2025.
A strategy to electrify space and water heating in more than 150,000 buildings by 2030 has been developed by the utility and is currently underway.
Con Edison says energy efficiency will enable the utility to align operations with the rapidly changing energy landscape and consumer demands for green services whilst speeding the retirement of conventional energy resources.
In 2016 alone, Con Edison customers reduced electricity usage by 160,200MWh and saved 266,500 dekatherms of gas, the equivalent of removing more than 23,000 cars off the road.
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Increases in energy efficiency would mean lower energy bills for consumers, reduced carbon emissions and power outages on the grid, according to Con Edison. The utility says efficiency has a huge role in delivering 100% clean energy by 2040.
Anne Choate, ICF senior vice president and energy, environment, and infrastructure lead said: “We look forward to expanding our support to help the utility continue to optimise its portfolio, make its programmes even more efficient and achieve aggressive state decarbonisation goals.”
