Higher Education

Critical infrastructure shouldn't compete with your institution's priorities.

Those pressures are becoming more acute as institutions contend with rising operating costs, enrollment uncertainty, and growing deferred-maintenance needs. With limited capital, investments in academic facilities, technology, faculty and staff, and the student experience can push critical energy infrastructure projects further down the list.

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We help colleges and universities move essential projects forward through Energy as a Service, removing financial barriers that often delay modernization while preserving funding for academic priorities.

Modernize infrastructure. Preserve financial flexibility.

Our Energy as a Service (EaaS) solution enables you to modernize critical energy infrastructure while preserving liquidity and financial flexibility for other institutional priorities.

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Rather than purchasing and owning equipment, you pay for measured performance through a long-term service agreement. We fund and own the project and work with trusted technical partners to deliver and maintain the improvements.

What Energy as a Service unlocks:

Preserve Capital
Modernize critical campus infrastructure without drawing on current capital budgets, preserving liquidity and financial flexibility for other institutional priorities.

Simplify Project Delivery
We coordinate the financial and technical components of the project with trusted implementation partners, helping you deliver projects more quickly while reducing the burden on campus facilities and finance teams.

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Transfer Performance Risk
You pay for measured performance—not equipment ownership or maintenance—while we assume project performance risk.

Improve Campus Performance‍

Modern infrastructure can strengthen your campus by improving reliability, reducing operating costs, increasing occupant comfort, and supporting long-term sustainability goals.

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Flexible service-based funding expands what's possible.

Energy as a Service allows you to bundle multiple infrastructure improvements into one performance-based agreement rather than funding projects individually through limited capital budgets.

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Energy savings help support service payments and expand the scope of a project, making it possible to combine efficiency improvements with larger, capital-intensive investments such as chillers, boilers, central plants, controls, and other critical systems.

Bundling complementary improvements into a single project enables you to address more deferred maintenance through one coordinated project while preserving capital for broader institutional priorities.

Improve campus resilience and advance sustainability.

Energy as a Service helps you pursue sustainability goals while modernizing the infrastructure that supports daily campus operations.

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By combining energy efficiency, cooling and heating improvements, building controls, on-site renewable generation, and battery storage where appropriate, you can improve operational reliability, reduce emissions, and accelerate progress without waiting for future capital budgets.

Preserve liquidity. Improve infrastructure.

Our Sustainable Energy Services Agreement (SESA) brings financing, implementation, maintenance, ownership, and long-term performance into one flexible agreement. You can modernize critical energy infrastructure without a large upfront investment, preserving liquidity and financial flexibility for other strategic priorities. Energy savings can help support service payments, while operational improvements create long-term value through improved reliability, lower maintenance costs, and stronger performance.

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For eligible tax-exempt institutions, we can also structure larger projects using tax-exempt financing, helping lower costs for larger infrastructure projects.

Built for higher education.

Colleges and universities face a unique challenge: aging infrastructure, constrained capital budgets, ambitious sustainability goals, growing pressure on liquidity, and rising expectations for resilient, high-performing campuses.

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For more than 17 years, we've helped higher education institutions modernize critical energy infrastructure through Energy as a Service, from energy efficiency improvements to larger, capital-intensive infrastructure projects. We combine flexible financing with trusted technical partners to deliver projects that improve reliability, reduce operating costs, and support long-term campus priorities. These projects often include:

• Critical mechanical systems: Modernize aging cooling and heating infrastructure—including central plants, chillers, boilers, and controls—to improve reliability, efficiency, and occupant comfort.
• Efficiency and controls: Improve building performance through lighting, building controls, smart infrastructure, and other efficiency measures that reduce operating costs and energy use.
• Resilient and distributed energy: Integrate on-site solar, battery storage, and other distributed energy resources to improve resilience, manage energy costs, and support sustainability goals.