Campuses are where sustainability makes a lasting difference in young minds. EcoMotion’s campus works span large universities, multi-campus school districts, and charter schools. We’re experienced in engaging students, faculty, and administrators in sustainability initiatives. We specialize in framing up and financing smart energy management including energy efficiency, onsite solar generation, advanced energy storage, and microgrids to provide heightened levels of energy resiliency.
EcoMotion specializes in solar and storage for campuses. We serve as an Owner’s Representative for school districts and schools that are eager to green their power supply. Typically, our services follow a three-step progression from 1) Feasibility Analysis to 2) Procurement Support to 3) Project Oversight and Quality Control. We begin by assessing where to put solar and what rate offset solar will realize. Provided favorable, we then help campuses select the best vendor and technology. And then we stick with the project throughout final design, permitting, and construction and interconnection. EcoMotion also monitors solar systems on an ongoing basis and prepares annual performance reports for interested clients.
EcoMotion’s most advanced technical work on campuses involves energy resilience. Thanks to the advent of cost-effective battery solutions, campuses can unite solar and storage and sophisticated controls to “island” in the event of a grid outage. EcoMotion helps campuses price and achieve desired levels of resilience. During emergencies, microgrids can provide means for students to shelter in place during short-term outages and can serve as powered community assets in the event of prolonged outages.
EcoMotion manages the procurement of electric buses for school districts, helping to present choices to districts, managing competitive solicitations, and evaluation proposals for district and board recommendation. EcoMotion has worked with a school district to obtain and select ten Ebuses that meet its needs and specifications.
EcoMotion provides a broad array of technical energy management services. We encourage campuses to look broadly at their energy management options. The options begin with energy conservation and energy efficiency and progresses to onsite generation and storage. We have worked on dozens of campuses promoting energy conservation through behavioral initiatives and technical services. The Strategic Energy Management Plans put a framework around the process. We help set goals, arrange financing, and support project activity.
EcoMotion supports school districts and schools with financing smart energy management. Of course we begin with gross costs of a measure. Are there incentives available? What grants might be tapped? If need be, EcoMotion can arrange financing for campuses, in cases monetizing tax credits and depreciation benefits. EcoMotion has also developed the Benefactor Investment Model (BIM), a financing model that makes benefactors slightly whole in six years, and that provides multiples of PPA savings to institutions over time.
EcoMotion’s President, Ted Flanigan, has been preparing greenhouse gas inventories and climate action plans since 1991. Today, the EcoMotion team prepares campus greenhouse gas inventories using a number of different protocols that address Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Inventories provide a snapshot of a campus’s carbon footprint, and a baseline from which to measure and prioritize specific steps and mitigation strategies.