CGE Energy announced its selection to implement the nation’s first joint “Energy Performance Contract” (EPC) project for HUD’s small low-income housing agencies. The multi-million dollar project will comprise of three Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) and 213 apartments throughout northern Michigan, at the properties of Mt. Pleasant Housing Commission, Charlevoix Housing Commission and East Jordan Housing Commission. These three Michigan PHA sites will benefit from CGE Energy’s “Sustain EPC” program. “Energy Performance Contracts” redirect energy cost savings into energy upgrades that get needed infrastructure improvements done, alleviate costs and obligations of the PHA’s staff and improve the housing resident’s quality of life. CGE Energy’s team has performed comprehensive, investment-grade energy audits of the PHA facilities and defined the appropriate measures to implement. Measures to be implemented include such energy saving and sustainable energy measures as LED lighting upgrades, plumbing fixtures, boilers, water heaters, natural gas co-generation, solar PV, improved energy management systems, as well as infrastructure repairs at some sites. The sites are also being evaluated for the future implementation of CGE’s WIND-e20 wind turbine.