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.

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.

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:

Our Services

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.

​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.

Inflation Reduction Act


The convergence of IRA legislation in the USA, corresponding regulations, compliance & incentives are creating opportunities for monetizing sustainable impacts for your firm and your clients. We digitally map & stack incentives to support project finance. Together, we can identify and pair potential technology and financing solutions to monetize present and future benefits, bringing down project costs.

The 2005 Energy Policy Act created the 179D deduction with a Special Rule that allows governmental entities to allocate a tax deduction. As a result of the Inflation Reduction Act (2022) the tax deduction has been raise from $1.80/sf up to $5.00/sf to tax-paying 'Designer' entities from qualifying lighting/HVAC/and envelope retrofit and new construction projects. Vast majority of 179D-qualifying projects have failed to use the deduction since its inception. AES, LLC can provide services to state and local government entities to manage the 179D allocation process. Let us negotiate between the deduction's stakeholders to obtain the required certification, provide a market valuation, and monetize the benefit to create savings, defray cost, or provide rebates to the government entity facility owner.  We partner with experts in tax law to maximize the benefit's utilization and spread taxpayer dollars further when invested in qualifying energy efficient building systems. 

Utility Monitoring


Measurement & Verification - Assist the customer in development and execution of a measurement & verification plan for all energy retrofits to provide required performance assurance. 

Benchmarking - Assist the customer in development and implementation of utility benchmarking systems to actively manage consumption, providing real-time systems performance.

Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)


Facilitation to provide strategic asset planning considerate of a properties’ energy, environmental, health related capital needs, preservation and long-term affordability.

​​Monetization of Carbon Credits 


​A carbon credit represents one ton of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere. They can be purchased by an individual or, more commonly, a company to make up for carbon dioxide emissions that come from industrial production, delivery vehicles or travel. Buyers, purchasers of carbon credits often are driven to offset their GHG production by locality, state, or country’s GHG reduction goals. Ignoring the mandates to reduce GHG can cause significant monetary penalties to a violating party.

An opportunity exists to monetize carbon credits earned from energy efficiency savings, transition to solar power and other renewables. Through a streamlined digitized process those reduced CO2 emissions can be monetized into carbon credits or offsets and sold to investors worldwide generating a significant and ongoing revenue stream for your organization. Real change in Green House Gas (GHG) reduction will only occur from corporate behavior changes. You may be ahead of many others in GHG reduction, initiated by your commitment to energy performance contracting, redevelopment, or repositioning years ago to reduce utility costs and GHG.

 The heavy lifting to undertake an energy redevelopment project has been completed by your organization. Your properties benefited by reducing utility expenses and in addition, can now monetize its GHG reduction, resulting from its past and future utility savings and solar project. Your organization’s role going forward is to report savings as reported in its measure, verification, or energy performance reports. Working with our partners we find national or international buyers and sends the proceeds to you. In addition to the initial proceeds, the carbon credits can also result in an annuity if the project continues to generate carbon reductions.

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, university or low-income MF property owner to reduce utility costs and replace, upgrade energy capital infrastructure (boilers, chillers, elevators, windows, lighting, roofs, etc.)? The solution – a utility-based usage approach where a third party owns, operates, maintains and is responsible for the energy saving performance of the new equipment. The customer relies on its operating budget to a pay service fee; there is no debt. The result is a solution that addresses energy infrastructure replacement yet saves scarce resources for core business functions. Like utility services, the customer is charged only for the utility it uses. This innovative financing approach is ideal for customers: with emergent energy capital needs (e.g. obsolete elevators); committed to sustainability and energy reduction; facilities as a non-core business function; looking for simple decision making; responsible for multiple locations; using long-term leases for facilities; and, that prefer Op-Ex / preservation of credit rating. 

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