Our Services
Our goal is to provide the most cost-effective and reliable solutions to any utility-related process. AES and its network of partners can bring a multi-disciplined team of professionals to address a utility issue or process. Each process is unique to the customer.
This structure of bringing the right solution to the table enables AES and its team to rapidly respond to a situation, which is essential to keeping pace with a customer’s need.
AES meshes the technology with highly skilled and experienced professionals within AES and its partners to provide proven results and lower costs.
AES brings the customer a full range of supportive utility demand, supply, and resiliency management services to deliver:
Energy
Performance Contracting
AES serves as an extension of the Public Housing Authority's, city, municipality, or owner's staff to provide guidance through the lifecycle of your energy project, protecting the customer's interests. AES provides customers with value-added resources to supplement existing in-house capacity and capability needed to make their project a success. For an owner, whose team may not have the required depth of resources to look after each component of a project, AES serves as an extension of their staff. As the energy project's "eyes and ears," AES can provide on-site representation to make sure that construction proceeds in accordance with contract documents, on time and within budget. Working as your advocate, AES enables customers to focus on their core business without distraction.
Energy Performance Contracting
AES serves as an extension of the Public Housing Authority's, city, municipality, or owner's staff to provide guidance through the lifecycle of your energy project, protecting the customer's interests. AES provides customers with value-added resources to supplement existing in-house capacity and capability needed to make their project a success. For an owner, whose team may not have the required depth of resources to look after each component of a project, AES serves as an extension of their staff. As the energy project's "eyes and ears," AES can provide on-site representation to make sure that construction proceeds in accordance with contract documents, on time and within budget. Working as your advocate, AES enables customers to focus on their core business without distraction.
Small Rural Frozen Rolling Base Program
The SRFRB Program is practical opportunity for small rural housing authorities to turn utility savings into flexible operating and capital support. AES can support your project.
Small rural housing authorities are under pressure to maintain aging properties, control rising utility costs, and stretch limited operating and capital funds. The Small Rural Frozen Rolling Base Program gives eligible agencies a way to keep the benefit of energy and water savings instead of losing those savings through reduced subsidy calculations. In plain terms: if your agency reduces consumption after entering the program, the savings can stay with your housing authority and be redirected to local priorities.
The Small Rural Frozen Rolling Base Program is designed for small rural public housing agencies that want to make energy or water improvements without immediately losing the financial upside. By freezing the rolling base consumption level used in subsidy calculations, eligible agencies can preserve the value of reduced consumption and use those dollars to support stronger operations, property improvements, and long-term sustainability.
Advantages for PHAs include: Retention of savings for 20 years; reduce risk for small agencies; and improved asset performance.
Decent and Safe Housing
Everyone deserves a decent, safe place to live. Stable housing is the foundation for healthy families, strong neighborhoods, and personal dignity. When people have homes that are affordable, secure, and well maintained, they are better able to work, learn, care for their families, and participate in the community. AES services and products support policies, programs, and partnerships that expand access to quality housing and protect residents across the U.S. including Native American communities from unsafe or unstable living conditions. Dick Santangelo, as a HUD Program Manager, lead the Real Estate Assessment Center’s physical inspection program of subsidized housing ($15B stock), directing inspection protocol and production o Uniform Physical Condition Standards (UPCS).
Native American Program Support
Every family deserves a home that is safe, healthy, affordable to operate, and built to last. In Native American communities, housing is more than shelter—it is the foundation for family well-being, cultural continuity, economic opportunity, and community resilience.
Across Indian Country, many homes face high utility costs, aging infrastructure, overcrowding, and health and safety challenges. Federal housing programs emphasize the need to increase the supply of safe, decent, and affordable housing for Native families, while sustainable construction initiatives show that energy-efficient design can reduce reliance on costly fuels, improve comfort, and strengthen self-determination.
AES partners with Tribal governments, housing authorities, and community organizations to deliver practical energy-efficiency upgrades, housing improvements and custom designed inspection protocols that respect local priorities, climate conditions, and cultural values. Our approach combines home energy assessments, weatherization, insulation, efficient heating and cooling, ventilation improvements, appliance upgrades, moisture control, and safety-focused rehabilitation into one coordinated plan.
Utility Monitoring
- Measurement & Verification—Assist the customer in the development and execution of a measurement & verification plan for all energy retrofits to provide required performance assurance.
- Benchmarking—Assist the customer in the development and implementation of a utility benchmarking system to actively manage consumption, providing real-time systems performance.
Awareness Education
and Training
Comprehensive training and awareness program on energy conservation and resiliency that reinforces and supports your organization’s energy efficiency objectives. Addressing workplace behaviors and engaging your staff and residents, you will lower costs and improve your organization’s energy efficiency by ensuring and improving the return on your energy investment dollar. Those savings can be reinvested into additional building improvements, resiliency, or invested in employees through incentive programs. An energy-educated employee in your organization or resident in your housing community will identify conservation opportunities and support goals that sustain energy efficiency over the long term.
Awareness Education and Training
Comprehensive training and awareness program on energy conservation and resiliency that reinforces and supports your organization’s energy efficiency objectives. Addressing workplace behaviors and engaging your staff and residents, you will lower costs and improve your organization’s energy efficiency by ensuring and improving the return on your energy investment dollar. Those savings can be reinvested into additional building improvements, resiliency, or invested in employees through incentive programs. An energy-educated employee in your organization or resident in your housing community will identify conservation opportunities and support goals that sustain energy efficiency over the long term.
Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)
Making a RAD-EPC decision boils down to a PHA’s strategic objectives, timing and financing. The strategic objectives are the PHA’s asset management goals over the next 10 to 20 years, and should include the appropriate mechanisms (e.g., EPC, RAD, both), for implementing their redevelopment strategy. Timing is influenced by the PHA’s commitment and focus, and an available ceiling level for conversion to RAD. Financing involves suitable operating and capital funding levels to successfully transition to RAD, rent structure to address debt service, reserves for that rainy day and, where required, tax credit availability to augment financing. Given a sense of those variables in which a PHA must operate, the discussion and analyses in this paper should provide guidance for a PHA exploring redevelopment options as part of its strategic planning process.
AES services can facilitate a PHA’s strategic asset planning considerate of a property's energy, environmental, and health-related capital needs, preservation, and long-term affordability.
Resiliency Planning
Providing assessment and services that address the need to make public housing authorities, cities, communities, neighborhoods, and buildings resilient to unforeseen externalities in a world of rapidly changing social conditions, technologies, climates, and cultures.
Strategic Facilities Planning
Energy audits are the underpinning of any utility improvement project. An energy audit describes a broad spectrum of energy studies ranging from a quick walk-through of a facility to identify major problem areas to a comprehensive analysis that includes demand (conservation opportunities) side, supply (alternate sources) side, resiliency (what happens when the lights go out), and health/environmental issues. AES can design the energy audit around the customer's needs and satisfy the financial criteria of energy investors.
As a Service
Infrastructure Financing
Clients need financing options when it comes to infrastructure replacements. Faced with rising utility and deferred maintenance costs, unreliable federal and state funding, and limited CapX funds, how is a municipality, university, school, or low-income MF property owner to reduce utility costs and replace or upgrade energy capital infrastructure (boilers, chillers, elevators, windows, lighting, roofs, etc.)? The solution is a utility-based usage approach where a third party owns, operates, maintains, and is responsible for the energy-saving performance of the new equipment.
Data → Risk → Capital
Clean energy projects qualify for millions in incentives and value streams that are not effectively leveraged in project finance. AES can make you aware of services that could enhance, help in financing, and create a legacy of success for many of energy and sustainability initiatives. We integrate project digital records, combine compliance, performance, and incentive documentation. For each project, a single digital record can be established to streamline the management and retrieval of essential documentation. This integrated record will include: