The work described in this analysis was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. We gratefully acknowledge Kurmit Rockwell, Schuyler Schell, and Leslie Nicholls (DOE-FEMP) for providing resources to conduct the analysis. Alice Dasek (DOE-OWIP) suggested the importance of presenting disaggregated market potential estimates. We also thank Dr. Timothy Unruh (DOE Office of Renewable Power) for his longtime support of our research into the U.S. ESCO industry. We thank Donald Gilligan (National Association of Energy Services Companies), Bob Slattery (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Sharon Conger (General Services Administration), and two anonymous reviewers for providing valuable information and insight into some of the underlying assumptions behind this analysis. Andy Satchwell (LBNL) provided independent peer-review of this manuscript. Finally, we would like to gratefully acknowledge key staff at the ESCOs who donated time responding to requests for information-including providing estimates of market penetration. Any remaining omissions and errors are the responsibility of the authors. LBNL and the U.S. ESCO IndustryFor more than twenty five years, the U.S. Department of Energy has supported Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to conduct applied research and provide technical assistance on topics related to the U.S. energy services company (ESCO) industry. LBNL activities include, but are not limited to: the production of triennial reports that estimate the size of the industry; assisting in the design of savings measurement and verification protocols; managing the largest database of ESCO projects in the world; and developing the eProject Builder system (ePB). ePB enables ESCOs and their customers to simulate project cash flow scenarios, securely upload project-level information, and track progress over the life of the energy savings performance contract.
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