Since 2004, the Marin Energy Management Team (MarinEMT) has been providing free energy management services to Marin's public agencies including local governments, schools, and special districts.
Call 415.473.4377 for more information about the program.
Acting as your Energy Manager
The MarinEMT was conceived in the idea that energy management services could be more cost effectively provided to small public sector institutions if their needs could be served in aggregate, as a collaboration. MarinEMT staff act as energy management for you: the local governments and school districts in Marin County. We act as an extension of your staff, helping to reduce and manage your energy use, improve the comfort and productivity of your staff and students and save scarce dollars. We sit on your side of the table, helping you to understand how much energy your facilities use, to evaluate how they can be more efficient and to finance and implement energy-efficiency projects. We also help you find products, contractors, engineering and other public or utility-sponsored programs.
Providing Technical Support
The MarinEMT provides a one-stop resource to help you reduce and manage energy use. We will survey your existing facilities, review plans for capital improvements, benchmark your historical energy use, track your on-going energy use and costs. We recommend energy-efficiency improvements and provide the technical and financial information you need to make informed decisions. We provide bid packages, specifications, board presentations, or consultation. We also provide financial incentives (rebates) and assist with financing as needed. Many other state, utility and private energy-efficiency programs and resources are available as well—we track and leverage these ever-changing resources so that you don’t have to. We also customize the services to address your specific needs and assist you at any level of decision making from facilities staff to elected officials.
Building Information Networks
We also help you access another important resource—your peers. Through peer networking lunches and workshops, you can find out what has and has not worked for similar organizations in Marin County. These lunch-time meetings have been successful in providing a forum for Marin facilities managers to exchange information, get to know each other and to be inspired. Workshops can be helpful, but your time is limited and valuable, so we bring experts to Marin to conduct workshops that are convenient. We also maintain a secure Web site where you can retrieve energy-use reports on your facilities, energy audits and other reports we prepare for you. We maintain historical records for energy use, past audits and measures implemented at your facilities. And, you can search our database for contact information for your peers and vendors.
Additional Resources
Through the Marin Energy Watch Partnership the MarinEMT works closely with PG&E to ensure that Marin's public agencies have access to as many resources as possible.
Energy Tracking.
MarinEMT can provide historical energy use while tracking on-going energy use and costs by request.
Rate Analysis.
Electric usage and rates fluctuate from year to year, in order to determine if you are on the most appropriate rate schedule PG&E can provide an annual analysis to bundled service customers.
Demand Response.
PG&E offers a variety of demand response programs that you can take advantage of to shed or shift your electric load during the curtailment events. You can participate in events by curtailing as little as 10kW, committing to reductions that will guarantee you financial incentives, or attempt your best effort without any program penalties.
New Construction.
If you are planning a new construction project, PG&E can work with you and your design team to offer technical advice and financial incentives to increase energy efficiency of your building's design.
Since 2004, the Marin Energy Management Team (MarinEMT) has been providing free energy management services to Marin's public agencies including local governments, schools, and special districts. 
