LEXINGTON, Mass. — FirstFuel Software announced that its Remote Building Assessment project with the Department of Defense (DOD) has been named Project of the Year in the Energy and Water category by the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), the DOD’s environmental technology and demonstration program. Selected from a pool of more than 65 ongoing or recently completed energy projects, FirstFuel’s work to help the DOD enhance its mission capabilities, improve its environmental and energy performance, and reduce costs, is being honored for its innovative approach, successful execution, and impact on the commercial market.

The ESTCP chose FirstFuel to guide the DOD’s compliance with the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, requiring energy audits on 25 percent of covered facilities annually. The program tasked FirstFuel with demonstrating how the company’s energy auditing capability could help to meet the mandate with its analytics-driven approach, which leverages a Remote Building Analytics (RBA) platform to rapidly and cost-effectively target, prioritize, quantify, enable, and track energy savings in less than a quarter of the time of traditional audits and using one fifth the manpower.