Webinar - Steam Carbon Reduction in ESPCs: Facilities with Central Steam Plants

Description

Centralized boiler plants with campus-wide steam distribution, common in colleges, military bases, and hospitals, represent some of the most consistent yet underutilized opportunities in Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs).

This session is designed for ESCO project development engineers and energy professionals seeking to identify contract-driving steam system measures that deliver reliable savings, strong ROI, and M&V-aligned performance. Steam systems often provide a unique advantage in ESPCs: they combine energy intensive systems with moderate capital requirements for retrofits resulting in opportunities for conservation measures with fast paybacks. These measures often also deliver critical non-energy benefits such as improved system reliability, reduced maintenance burden, enhanced safety, and extended equipment life.

We’ll focus on practical opportunities across boiler plants, steam distribution, and condensate return systems, highlighting the types of issues that repeatedly surface during field evaluations and how they translate into bankable energy and carbon savings.

In addition to near-term opportunities, we’ll briefly explore how evolving technologies, such as electrification, hybrid boiler systems, and heat recovery, may integrate into centralized plants over time without requiring full system replacement.

Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how to position steam system improvements as low-risk, high-confidence measures that enhance ESPC financial performance and support long-term decarbonization goals.

Presenter: 

Chase Bean, Vice President of Revenue and Engineering, Steam Management, Inc. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify key sources of energy loss in centralized steam systems
2. Evaluate common steam system ECMs based on performance, applicability, and savings potential
3.  Assess ROI and payback characteristics of steam-related upgrades
4. Recognize operational indicators as actionable signals for identifying both energy efficiency opportunities and system reliability improvements. 

NAESCO has submitted this webinar to the AIA for 1 CEU approval. 

NOTE: Beginning in 2023, all NAESCO webinars will be offered to all attendees at no cost. Recordings and slides will be available to members only, after the webinar.