LittleFoot Energy provides a suite of services to support your energy initiatives from the discovery and setup of your sustainability goals to the ongoing review and optimization of existing systems.

Discovery

• Define Business Objectives
• For businesses that are preparing a sustainability plan, LittleFoot Energy helps you define goals in energy reduction and earnings improvement. Whether you’re trying to reduce your carbon footprint, cut energy expense or raise earnings, LittleFoot can help you reach those goals.

• Scope the project
  • LFE will define the project size along with the technology and services required to meet your objectives.  Whether your portfolio is large and your goals broad and aggressive or you are focusing your efforts on individual buildings and holistic improvements LFE will provide a roadmap to meet your needs.  With a detailed plan, including lifecycle analysis and performance optimization the scope will layout the business plan to achieve your energy initiatives.

• Identify Financial exposure and Reduce risk
  • Reduce your financial exposure and risk.  LittleFoot Energy’s Guaranteed Business Case (GBC) is designed to ensure success based on your objectives. LittleFoot defines the GBC early-on in the project life.   With clear objectives and a strong project plan you will know that your project will be on-time, on budget and on track with your goals and objectives. Using industry-accepted financial metrics (such as IRR, ROI, NPV) LittleFoot Energy develops a plan that includes the return-on-investment and projected savings for all projects.
  • LFE outlines the investments and the impact that the projects will have on your business prior to implementation.
  • LFE provides an ongoing review and management of deployed systems. LFE ensures performance objectives are met by the energy systems.
  • In addition to the GBC, LittleFoot Energy provides an Investment-Grade Business Plan (IGBP). Providing the documentation, analysis and scrutiny required for your lender or bank to help facilitate the best possible financial terms. In addition, the detailed IGBP helps facilitate internal company decisions for the project.
• Interpret Incentives & Policy
  • LittleFoot Energy understands the complex, dynamic, world of incentives and policy regarding environmental projects. From private grants, government incentives or utility programs, LittleFoot Energy helps you take maximum advantage of available benefits. Because LFE backs up project performance with guaranteed financial metrics, you can be assured that LFE will be responsible for receiving incentives in order to meet project goals. LEED certification and Energy Star benchmarking can also be evaluated for your portfolio.
• Audit and benchmark
  • Once objectives have been defined, audits are performed to collect data and identify opportunities for additional savings and new projects. There are several levels of auditing: portfolio-level benchmarking, preliminary audits and investment-grade audits. These tools are selected and used based on objectives and the stage of project development. The aim is to conduct as thorough and holistic an audit of your building and processes as appropriate. LittleFoot’s service differs from utility-provided audits that focus just on lightbulbs. LittleFoot looks at your company as a whole - and discovers the best ways for your business to improve.

• Select Technology and Equipment
  • LittleFoot Energy maintains relationships with many of the technology leaders allowing  the opportunity to select the best-of-breed vendors who can meet your specific energy objectives and business needs.   With a wide array of partners LFE has access to a broad range of the high quality products and can provide you with the most innovative solution available.

Development & Implementation

• Schedule tasks and create milestones
  • The key to keeping projects on budget is keeping them on track. Projects involve numerous factors and parties to coordinate and schedule between. Coordinating contractors, labor, equipment and materials and schedules without interfering with your business’ customers can be a challenge. By starting with the goal of achieving objectives and working out a comprehensive schedule, we are able to make progress quickly and avoid the costs of projects that become stagnant or grow out of scope.
• Outsource Project Management Services
  • LittleFoot Energy works with their network of partners to outsource project management to the best local contractors in their industries so you get the highest quality workmanship available.
• Identify Savings and Benchmarks
  • All services include a maximum not-to-exceed price with minimum projected savings. You can rest easy that your budget will not be broken and you will get some minimum amount of savings to make any invested resources worthwhile.
• Set Performance Frameworks
  • LittleFoot Energy will establish the framework around which the whole project will be evaluated. This includes the metrics up-front, the monitoring and verification program post-implementation and the mechanisms for remedy should projected performance not be met.
• Evaluate & Mitigate Risk
  • The structured schedule, project framework and talented team of partners who understand all aspects of these projects provide the framework to monitor and reduce the amount of financial and physical risk throughout the implementation and life of the systems implemented.

• Quality Assurance
  • When working with companies implementing projects you must have faith that they are selecting long lasting, high-quality equipment. Because LittleFoot Energy is held to guarantees established in alignment with your goals, we have every incentive to ensure we select quality components that will deliver on projections.  Because we only commission work to talented & reputable partners, you can be sure you’re getting the highest quality workmanship & products

Ongoing Optimization: Post Implementation

• Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Planning
  • To achieve long-term projections operations and maintenance must be carefully reviewed and considered as part of the project plan. LittleFoot Energy O&M programs are proactive and put in place preventative measures to make sure systems have maximum up-time, perform optimally and deliver maximum ROI.
• Measurement & Verification
  • Information is the key to making well-informed business decisions. Measuring performance and verifying data is a critical step and is used to validate the actual results versus the planned or expected results.  You will know the ROI of the project and LittleFoot Energy will know when to take action to keep your projects OnTrack. The data is extremely valuable in identifying new energy initiativs and opportunities. Whether it is ad-hoc or periodic reporting LFE provides these measurements as part of the project to insure success.
• Continuous Commissioning & Ongoing Optimization
  • In addition to the O&M plan, LittleFoot Energy continuously monitors equipment data and settings to make sure equipment is well-tuned. This creates assurance that the original goals outlined in the Business Objectives and Guaranteed Business Case (GBC) are met and maintained throughout the life of all systems.  From start to finish, we work to have a plan for ongoing review and continuous improvement by monitoring all systems in place.