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Why Performance Contracting?

When buildings perform as they should—with optimized asset utilization, reduced operating costs, improved resiliency, and enhanced occupant comfort—they become active contributors to organizational success. Yet many organizations struggle to fund and implement infrastructure improvements while balancing competing priorities and limited resources.

Siemens Performance Contracting helps overcome these challenges through performance-based financing solutions that enable infrastructure modernization projects to be funded through guaranteed operational and energy savings. With more than 1,300 projects completed across the United States and over $2.5 billion in customer operational and energy savings delivered, Siemens brings the experience, expertise, and transparency needed to help organizations achieve long-term business, energy, and sustainability objectives.

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Key benefits

Improve outcomes

Create healthier, safer, and more productive environments while supporting compliance requirements and long-term organizational goals.

Increase efficiency

Identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption, optimize operations, and maximize the value of existing resources.

Reduce financial barriers

Use guaranteed savings from energy and operational improvements to help fund infrastructure upgrades without significant upfront capital investment.

Enhance resiliency

Improve system reliability, reduce operational risk, and prepare facilities for future energy and infrastructure challenges.

Advance sustainability goals

Support carbon reduction initiatives, energy efficiency objectives, and broader environmental commitments.

Gain a trusted partner

Work with a full-service ESCO that provides planning, financing, implementation, measurement, and ongoing support.

Detailed overview

A proven approach to infrastructure improvements

Many organizations face aging infrastructure, increasing operational costs, workforce challenges, and limited capital budgets. Performance Contracting offers a proven approach for addressing these challenges by aligning infrastructure investments with measurable financial outcomes. Through a Guaranteed Savings Contract, Siemens develops and implements infrastructure improvements while guaranteeing that project-generated savings will help offset project costs. This allows organizations to modernize facilities while maintaining budget flexibility.

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Comprehensive services

As a full-service Energy Services Company (ESCO), Siemens provides end-to-end solutions that address the complete energy lifecycle—from reduction and efficiency improvements to energy production, procurement, and management strategies.

Organizations benefit from a holistic approach that incorporates infrastructure, energy, technology, and sustainability initiatives into a unified strategy designed around long-term business objectives.

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Performance-based solutions

Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs) and Guaranteed Savings Contracts allow organizations to invest in critical infrastructure improvements while leveraging future energy and operational savings to help pay for those upgrades.

Benefits can include:

  • Reduced energy and operational expenses
  • Enhanced equipment reliability
  • Improved occupant comfort
  • Better resource allocation
  • Increased property value
  • Sustained quality assurance through professional energy management
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Global reach, local expertise

Backed by Siemens' global resources and supported by local U.S.-based teams, organizations gain access to proven technologies, financing expertise, and implementation support tailored to their operational goals, facility requirements, and regional needs.

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Performance Contracting starts by identifying infrastructure and energy improvement opportunities. Siemens then develops a comprehensive implementation strategy and guarantees a level of savings generated by the project.

Operational and energy savings are used to help offset project costs, enabling organizations to modernize facilities while maintaining budget certainty.