Energy Audit Contractor Information

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Milwaukee Field Office
Suite 1380
Henry S. Reuss Federal Plaza
310 West Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53203-2289
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Directors and Staff, Housing Authorities of Wisconsin

FROM: Larry Wood, General Engineer, Wisconsin Public Housing Program Center
U.S. Dept. of HUD
310 W. Wisconsin Ave. Suite 1380
Milwaukee WI 53203-2289
Voice 414-297-3214 x 8226
Fax 414-297-1180

Note: This email BCC’d to all WI PHAs

SUBJECT: Energy Audit Contractor Information

This memorandum is a follow-up to the email sent 13 Feb 2006, regarding the requirement of an Energy Audit once every five years by Public Housing Authorities (PHAs). As previously advised, PHAs are required to competitively solicit firms to complete their Energy Audits, and this memo serves to provide you with some assistance in this process. It is always difficult to spend money on items that are not broken so one of the intents of the Energy Audit is to help you decide when it is time to replace that old boiler, those old toilets, or any other system which may be working fine, but inefficiently.

Larger PHAs or consortiums (500 units or greater) can hire an Energy Performance Contractor (ESCO) to do a complete energy savings assessment for you, implement the results and arrange funding, but this is not always cost effective for small PHAs. To research this and search for Energy Audit Contractors you should at least look at the ESCO website : http://www.NAESCO.org

Some Wisconsin utility companies offer free or low cost Energy Audits for utility items such as heat, air conditioning, lighting and water. It is acceptable to utilize these services for part of your audit, but be sure you get a complete written report that covers the items noted in the February 13th email. For those items not covered by these audits, you will have to make provisions for the additional work through a separate audit, so be sure that the services don’t overlap or omit any potential cost savings for your PHA.

I hope this information helps when you do your solicitation for an Energy Audit. Small energy savings over time can pay big dividends, just think what you were paying 5 or 10 years ago for heat & lighting and how a small savings then would be a large savings today.

Please feel free to contact our office with any questions you might have on the energy audit.

The following is a list of known Energy Audit / Energy Performance Contractors. Some do both, but may not be the right fit for your situation. HUD does not endorse or recommend any of the contractors on this list. This list is not comprehensive and we strongly encourage you to seek out other sources. Be sure you follow the 24 CFR Part 85.36 procurement contracting process when you solicit bids.

Partial list of possible bidders:

2rw Consultants, Inc.
Laurie Byers or Bob Somers
1001 East Market Street
Charlottesville, VI 22902
434 296 2116
Fax: 434 977 1862
Email: laurieb@2rw.com

Citizens Conservation Services, Inc.
Lillian Kamalay or Steve Morgan
111 Speen Street, Suite 410
Framingham, MA 01701
508 661 2200
Fax: 508 661 2201
Email: Ikamalay@ameresco.com
smorgan@ameresco.com

Chevron Energy Solutions
A Division of Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
12980 Foster Drive, Suite 400
Overland Park, KS 66213
Tel (913) 748-8663 Fax (913) 748-8734
sspurgeon@chevron.com

Custom Energy
Rob Meyer
robm@customenergy.com

Enlightened Energy Consultants (EEC)
Michael Nail
David W. Anderson

Focus On Energy
403 W. Foster Street
Port Washington, WI 53074
Brody Vance
888-598-4376

Honeywell, Inc.
William Giaimo
925 Keynote Circle
Brooklyn Heights, OH 44131 1898
440 338 4006
Fax: 440 338 5060
williamj.giaimo@honeywell.com

NORESCO, LLC
John Rizzo or Len Busha
One Research Drive, Suite 400C
Westborough, MA 01581
508 614 1067
Fax: 508 870 2279
jrizzo@noresco.com
Ibusha@noresco.com

Siemens Building Technologies
Richard Carroll
1745 Corporate Drive, Suite 240
Norcross, GA 30093 2928
770 279 4818 Mobile: 770 365 2523
Fax: 770 935 2024
richard.carroll@sbt.siemens.com

Vestar
James Rosen
139 East Fourth Street, Room 100C
Cincinnati, OH 45201
Phone: (513)287 3802
Fax: (513)287 1321
jrosen@vestar.net

Water and Energy Savings Corporation
John E. “Gene” Overmyer, Andrew Overmyer
4615 Gulf Blvd., Ste. 214
St. Pete Beach, FL 33706
Phone: 727-363-7000
FAX: 727-363-7011
info@weconserve.com

Lake Lore, NC 28746
828 625 0574
Fax: 828 625 0685, Mobile: 336 918 0670
wesavings@blueridge.net

Water Management Inc.
Thomas Homer
117 Clermont Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22304 4837
703 370 9070
Fax: 703 370 9179
Email: tom_horner@watermgt.com
watermgt@watermgt.com
Web: www.watermgt.com