Master Service Agreement: The Key to Decarbonization

RENEW Energy Partners specializes in funding energy saving retrofits for your commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings. A Master Service Agreement is the key to decarbonization as it allows us to provide and support various technologies to make your buildings more efficient and cut down on your energy costs.

How can a Master Service Agreement be the “key to decarbonization”?

A decarbonized energy system will become a mandatory step for businesses looking to reduce climate emissions and energy transition risks. However, achieving decarbonization goals requires putting a budget in place to fund the plan. A recent Deloitte survey shows that CFOs prefer certain funding options over others.

For finance chiefs, there are three primary strategies for funding their decarbonization goals:

1. Reassigning growth capital from carbon-heavy resources
2. Using operational cashflow savings
3. Applying for grants

Most CFOs view decarbonization as “costly undertaking rather than in investment.” However, “future-focused” organizations have their lead financial executives involved in the decarbonization strategy and identify innovative strategies to fund their decarbonization programs.

To help address this challenge, RENEW offers our Master Service Agreement (MSA) as an energy finance solution. This two-part contract is the key to decarbonization for future focused organizations and CFOs to implement their decarb strategies in a way that is an investment and not a costly undertaking.

Structure of a Master Service Agreement

The MSA includes a General Terms & Conditions section to cover the legal aspects of the agreement between the customer and RENEW while also defining specific Project Addendums to scale energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives. With the MSA Project Addendums, RENEW can implement client-defined scopes of work for energy efficiency retrofits such as lighting, HVAC, and smart energy controls; as well as Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) to install on-site clean power including microgrids, solar energy, energy storage, geothermal and combined heat and power.

These scopes of work may include a share of savings provision that defines the measurement and verification of the project, along with maintenance requirements over the agreement period.

RENEW’s Master Service Agreement is the key to decarbonization as it is more flexible and modular than traditional funding. We share early project development risk by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that allows RENEW and its design partners to fully develop the project scope without any upfront capital required.

Once the MOU work is complete, we deliver definitive contracts for the MSA and project addendums. Additional Project Addendums can be added at any time, giving our clients the ability to easily work with RENEW on any future decarbonization projects but does not obligate them to work solely with RENEW on sustainability.

Top benefits of the MSA vs regular decarbonization funding:

• Upgrades are funded with future long term savings.
• We provide up-front funding to purchase, install, and maintain the new systems.
• Each month after installation, for the duration of the agreement, we share a portion of the savings with the client.
• The client can take ownership of the new systems at the end of the agreement with 100% of the savings going to their company’s bottom line.

How this high-tech manufacturer uses RENEW’s Master Service Agreement:

MACOM Technology Solutions, a high-performance microwave and optical semiconductor manufacturer, recently worked alongside RENEW and an independent consultant to design, implement and fund a microgrid solution for their Lowell, Massachusetts corporate headquarters. RENEW now owns and maintains the microgrid under a 15-year PPA, saving MACOM hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on their energy bills while reducing over 1860 metric tons per year and adding significant resiliency to MACOM’s manufacturing facility.

Renew Energy Partners provides turnkey solutions for funding, installing, and managing energy efficiency and on-site clean power generation projects. We help building owners reduce their carbon footprint and save money while making their buildings cleaner, nicer, and more resilient. With RENEW’s energy-as-a-service model, energy saving retrofits and power upgrades are funded by future savings and are at no cost to the building owner. For more information on our services, contact us today.