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Choose the ESCO whose performance contracts are driving more than $13B in customer savings
Update your facilities using little to no upfront capital and pay for the improvements with guaranteed energy and operational savings. Johnson Controls brings you more than 40 years of energy performance contract experience and success.
Choose our turnkey, end-to-end solutions to offload risk, preserve capital and generate savings for years to come guaranteed.
What is energy performance contracting?
Energy performance contracts (EPCs) are legislatively enabled models that leverage tomorrow’s savings to fund capital improvements today. Updates to your building systems create energy and operating efficiencies that yield guaranteed savings, which typically range from 25% to 40%.
Johnson Controls Sustainable Infrastructure energy performance agreements can also include integration into our OpenBlue digital platform for real-time monitoring and streamlined measurement, verification and reporting helping us ensure you get the performance you expect.
Why choose Johnson Controls Sustainable Infrastructure team
We bring you experience and expertise unmatched by any other energy and infrastructure services business.
40+ years of ESCO leadership
The Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard Report ranks Johnson Controls Sustainable Infrastructure as one of the nation’s leading ESCOs.
$13B in energy and operational savings
We’ve helped educational institutions, government agencies, public housing authorities and healthcare organizations achieve dramatic savings while improving facilities and outcomes.
Turnkey solutions with integrated technology
We lead every phase of your EPC project and can provide additional longterm services to help you make the most of your upgrades. Our OpenBlue digital platform streamlines performance data collection, analysis and reporting, and delivers additional insights to increase savings over time.
Financial expertise
Our dedicated capital team structures flexible, bankable EPC solutions with an optimized cost of capital, backed by our financial strength.
OEM insights
As an original equipment manufacturer, we understand the full array of building systems and controls, including products from other providers. You get solutions that work for your facility.
How energy performance contracts work
Johnson Controls brings you all the performance contracting benefits
Rely on a top accredited Energy Service Provider to achieve the results you desire.
Maximize Available Funds: Leveraging the ESPC framework enables public entities to maximize their funding with capital dollars, federal funding, and rebates, stretching their budget and achieving more extensive project outcomes.
JCI-SI designs, builds and guarantees outcomes via M&V. Redirect costs for energy and operations towards facility improvements.
ESPCs transfer both performance and delivery risk to the provider by locking in scope, pricing, and savings before construction begins minimizing change exposure and ensuring cost certainty unless the owner elects to change scope.
Address deferred maintenance and make your building more efficient, comfortable and productive.
Industries we serve
- Energy efficient HVAC
- Renewable energy
- Lifecycle maintenance
FAQs about Energy Performance Contracting
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What’s the difference between an EPC and an ESCO?An energy services company (ESCO) is the business that works with you to develop, design, build and finance your project. An energy performance contract (EPC) is the funding tool you use to make that project happen.
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How does an EPC differ from traditional financing?
There are two key differences:
- A traditionally financed energy savings project requires you to manage multiple providers, bids and approvals. You carry the risks of delays, cost overruns and performance that falls short of expectations. You also have to project manage multiple contractors, adding to your internal time and cost. With an EPC, on the other hand, one provider the ESCO takes full responsibility for project risks and execution, and results are guaranteed. All subcontractors are managed by the ESCO.
- An EPC requires little to no upfront capital. You pay the ESCO out of the savings generated by the improvements. What’s more, your payments may be reduced if guaranteed results aren’t achieved.
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What projects can I fund with an energy performance contract?
Use this funding option to modernize facilities and infrastructure, with EPC projects including:
- HVAC upgrades
- Lighting retrofits
- Building envelope improvements
- Building automation and controls
- Water conservation
- Water and wastewater treatment improvements
- Renewable energy systems
- Water and electric meters
- EV charging infrastructure
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How are EPC savings guaranteed?Your contract with the ESCO specifies the minimum savings the project will achieve over a specific term, generally in phases of 10 to 20 years. If savings fall short, the ESCO pays the difference. That makes measurement and verification crucial; it’s advisable to support and streamline this process with integrated tools such as the Johnson Controls OpenBlue digital platform.
Additional industry-specific resources
Explore additional Sustainable Infrastructure solutions
Energy as a Service
Have our team take on the responsibilities and the risks for complex building systems, with full-term contracted KPIs.
Public-private partnerships
Take advantage of private sector expertise to carry out long-term public infrastructure upgrades.