An energy services company has a habit of basing its operations in buildings ready for a second chance. This time around, a zoned VRF design led to substantial electric and gas savings on top of the rewards of building conservation.
Franklin Energy Services, LLC (Franklin Energy) in Port Washington, WI, has been consulting with utilities, municipalities, and states to create energy-efficiency programs for commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential customers since 1994. The company has offices in 12 states and more than 375 employees.
An example of Franklin Energy’s work is the Focus on Energy program, an outreach effort for more than 10 years with Wisconsin residents and businesses to install cost-effective energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Franklin Energy worked with Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy business customers in 2011 to save more than 89 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) and more than 1.5 million therms. That amount of energy savings prevented greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 13,500 cars.