FEDS Spotlight 2025 Nominations Now Open!
 FEMP is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 FEDS Spotlight! This federal recognition program honors employees who go above and beyond to advance mission success while reducing energy waste, cutting costs, optimizing performance, and strengthening national energy security.
Agencies are encouraged to nominate outstanding federal employees in one of three categories:
- Professional Achievement – Exceptional professionalism and integrity in leading mission-critical projects and programs.
- Future Leader – Emerging talent demonstrating the skills and initiative needed to advance key energy management projects.
- Innovator – Creative problem-solvers who inspire change and champion new approaches to dynamic challenges.
Work with your agency point of contact to submit a nomination. Nominations close January 30, 2026.
One More Day to Apply! Join the Early Career Professionals Program
 There’s still time to apply for the Early Career Professionals Program (ECPP) from the Federal Energy Management Program. The application window for Cohort 3 closes tomorrow, December 10, 2025.
Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your energy and water management expertise, build agency partnerships, and develop a capstone project aligned with your work.
Attention Agencies: Get Help With Repowering On-Site Energy Systems Through Performance Contracts
FEMP provides technical assistance to agencies with aging on-site energy generation systems, or "stranded assets,” which may offer opportunities for improved energy security and reduced costs. Because modest investments can recover large volumes of lost generation, repairing stranded assets is often the highest-return opportunity available within a facility’s energy portfolio, making these efforts ideal for bundling into comprehensive, sitewide energy performance contracts. These agreements leverage third-party financing to fund diagnostics, repairs, and optimization—expenditures that are repaid over time through verified energy and operational cost savings.
Contact the FEMP Performance Contracting Team through the Assistance Request Portal (select ‘Project Financing/Project Contracting’ under the service area dropdown) to learn more about facility assessments and opportunities to include stranded asset repairs in a performance contract.
How Performance Contracting Saves Energy and Money for the Federal Government
 Discover how private sector partnerships, facilitated by FEMP, help federal agencies reduce energy and water use through performance contracting. These contracts deliver cost savings, measurable resource reductions, and job creation, driving economic growth while slashing federal energy waste in buildings and fleets. Learn how these critically important contracts are making a lasting impact across the federal government.
Federal Facilities Are Leveraging Energy and Water Saving Heating and Cooling Technologies
A new FEMP resource highlights HVAC technologies that offer significant energy and water savings and can be more broadly applied across federal facilities. The resource covers solutions such as variable air volume ventilation, advanced dehumidification systems, magnetic bearing chillers, thermal energy storage, geothermal systems, and thermosyphon hybrid coolers. These technologies can support compliance with Section 432 of the Energy Independence and Security Act while helping facilities with complex HVAC needs, including laboratories and data centers, improve performance.
The resource also features case studies that show how federal agencies are using these technologies to reduce energy and water use and strengthen mission resilience. It offers a practical starting point for agencies exploring innovative HVAC approaches that boost efficiency and enhance energy security.
BLCC Annual Updates
The Building Life Cycle Cost (BLCC) Programs from NIST provide tools to evaluate the long-term cost-effectiveness of building and energy investments. BLCC supports federal, OMB, and MILCON analyses, helping users compare design alternatives and calculate net savings, SIR, IRR, and payback. The suite also includes the Energy Escalation Rate Calculator (EERC), Handbook 135, and the Annual Supplement, offering the guidance, indices, and escalation rates needed for accurate life cycle cost analysis.
Connectivity Troubleshooting Guide for Advanced Electricity Meters
This guide provides a structured process for diagnosing connectivity issues in advanced electricity meters, with two primary decision trees covering power and network problems. Alongside the decision trees, it offers key definitions, background context, general considerations, and pre-troubleshooting checklists to help users prepare. While geared toward the advanced electricity meters most commonly deployed at federal facilities—including those serving as data interfaces on fieldbus networks—future editions will expand to additional meter types such as water, natural gas, and steam.
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