Mission Support Alliance

knows finding ways to reduce energy consumption at the Hanford site helps

shrink the site’s carbon footprint and reduce costs.

MSA, the U.S. Department

of Energy contractor, helps DOE and its contractors with energy management and

equipment upgrades.

MSA’s energy management

team works with site contractors, often in the planning phase of their

projects, to find ways to reduce energy consumption.

The team helps identify

efficiency projects, products and technologies, such as heating, ventilation

and air conditioning systems, building controls/thermostats, electrical

projects, water and sewer projects, refrigeration units and freeze protection

for piping and engines.

The team also researches

vendors to find cost-effective and reliable, energy-smart products.

“The relationships and

collaboration between contractors for energy management across the site has

been phenomenal and is growing every day,” said Lana Strickling, manager of MSA

environmental compliance and sustainability, in a statement.

Once the energy-saving

products are in place, the energy management team helps contractors process

paperwork for the Bonneville Power Administration’s incentive program. This

program put dollars back into Hanford in recognition of energy-efficiencies.

For example, lighting

upgrades for facilities across the Hanford site over the past couple of years

have resulted in an estimated savings of 3.6 million kilowatt hours per year of

electricity and more than $800,000 in incentives from the BPA, which go back to

the contractors that paid for them.