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Our Solutions
We Create Energy Solutions for Schools and Communities
Public Sector Energy Solutions
School Energy Solutions
GCE and the Client together
We provide the engineering, planning, and financial system
GCE is an energy advisor that provides the engineering, planning, and financial system so that your organization can invest in energy projects with guaranteed results. Insight is everything. Energy projects strategically designed (by GCE and the client together) maximize the use of resources and funds. It feels different when you can trust the company working on your energy project, and that communication and clarity mean everything to the long-term success of your projects. You reap the benefits of energy improvements, save your capital to grow your organization, all through a self-performing energy asset.
Our Specialty
GCE works with both public and private organizations. Our specialty is to work with institutional clients such as schools systems, municipalities, and private universities.
Energy Strategy
A holistic energy approach to finding immediate impact and long-term value.
3 main concerns
We focus on alleviate the 3 main concerns
The focus is to alleviate the 3 main concerns for energy efficiency and generation projects:
- Eliminate the burden of high up-front capital costs for upgrades with projects that pay for themselves.
- Design, engineer, and facilitate energy upgrades from start to finish.
- Remove the burden of uncertainty, by providing 100% Guarantee of energy savings performance
By focusing on value and investing in energy efficiency and generation, the GCE system creates a WIN, WIN, WIN, scenario for building owners, workers, and clean energy.
Community Stewardship
We design a holistic project that includes all of your energy systems
- Schools can use the solar and renewable energy for educational purposes.
- Schools are in a leadership position in the community.
- Schools value attracting new students and having renewable energy is a way to set your schools apart.
DEVELOP YOUR PROJECT WITH A TRUSTED FIDUCIARY
We pay for and manage the entire development
Our clients appreciate that we operate on behalf of their interest, maintaining the “power of information” so they remain in the driver’s seat. The funding strategy is nice, but once you know you have the costs covered the most important part of the system is driving home value. GCE takes multiple steps to give you the customer the greatest impact by having a specialist on your team.
- We analyze the facility and perform Energy modeling
- Engineer and identify cost-effective savings measures for each specific facility
- Environmental studies guarantee the performance of the energy savings
- Run a comprehensive "Apples to Apples" bid process to level the field and reduce change orders
- Negotiate with vendors to drive down costs of projects
- Identify and file for incentives
- Align the funding mechanisms to pay for the project
- File the paperwork and organize the entire process into a structured system
GCE pays for, and manages the entire development process with no money out of pocket to the school.
Community Stewardship
We use the solar and renewable energy for purpose
GCE funding is available for energy savings projects that show “definitive and calculated engineered savings,” with the main focus that they are “financially positive” over a set time, including:
- LED Lighting
- HVAC
- Sensors
- VFD motors
- VFD pumps
- Building Automation
- Insulation
- Windows
- Solar & Wind
- Electrical Balance
- Solar Film
- Others available
GCE designs projects that pay for themselves 100%, with no up-front cash payment* and GUARANTEES a positive financial return DAY 1.
GCE clients include commercial, industrial, and both public and private institutions. The minimum requirement is 50,000 square feet to invest in a total project’s energy efficiency.