Energy Solutions for Public Schools

Smarter Energy Solutions for School Systems

PowerOptions helps public schools across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island cut costs and strengthen sustainability through competitive energy procurement consulting, renewables, and efficiency strategies backed by over 20 years of expertise.

• Largest energy buying consortium in New England.
• Best-in-class contracts with the strongest customer protections in the industry today.
• Tools and guidance to help your public school develop energy strategies and make informed buying decisions.

Is Your School System Maximizing its Energy Savings Potential?

Public schools face unique energy challenges—tight budgets, complex procurement processes, and multiple facilities with varied energy needs. 

PowerOptions partners with school districts to reduce costs, simplify energy management, and support sustainability initiatives, all while keeping educational priorities front and center. We specialize in the competitive procurement of electricity and natural gas supply, solar power, and electric transportation. And we provide strategy and guidance on energy efficiency, demand management and energy analytics.

PowerOptions is the largest New England-based energy consortium, serving nearly 50 public school systems and more than 450 organizations total. We leverage the size of our group to negotiate extremely favorable prices and strong customer protections.

A nonprofit organization whose mission is to save other nonprofits time and money on energy, PowerOptions has over two decades of experience. Our team includes experts in the utilities, renewables, efficiency, negotiation and competitive energy markets. And we are always available to help you with any and all of your energy needs.

Our Energy Solutions for Public Schools

Here’s how we help public schools manage limited budgets, navigate state and local procurement, coordinate energy across multiple sites, and implement efficiency and sustainability initiatives.

• Electricity and Natural Gas Supply – Our electricity and natural gas supply procurement offers pricing models that fit around any schools system’s strategy. Using our own robust RFP process, we’re able to offer our members pre-negotiated contracts with strong customer protections. 
• Solar Procurement and Renewables – If you’re looking at solar for your schools, we can help. Our solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) allow you to benefit from all available state and federal incentives. With our program, there are no upfront capital costs and no responsibility for ongoing maintenance or operations.
• Fleet Electrification, Equipment & Services – PowerOptions offers electric vehicle chargers, group procurement of electric vehicles, placement analysis, fleet management and strategies to transition to clean fleets. 
• Energy Management and Procurement – Our energy experts help you develop procurement strategies, create paths to reach sustainability goals, achieve energy efficiency projects, and implement data analytics for optimizing energy use and savings.

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