Accelerating Resilient Infrastructure (ARI)
Helping public agencies fund, modernize, and protect critical infrastructure.
Accelerating Resilient Infrastructure (ARI)Public agencies and educational institutions face rising utility expenses, aging infrastructure, and increasing uncertainty around traditional funding sources. ARI helps you access private capital, lock in long-term energy costs, and strengthen critical infrastructure.
Solutions for energy affordability and resilience
Organizations choose ARI because in addition to accelerating their infrastructure modernization, it preserves funds for other critical priorities and transfers risk to the private sector. Public and educational institutions work with ARI to deliver four important outcomes:
Stabilize energy costs
Stabilize energy costs
Deflect utility rate volatility
Unlock capital
Unlock capital
Update energy systems without CapEx
Safeguard your budget
Safeguard your budget
Reduce financial and operational risks
Strengthen resilience
Strengthen resilience
Protect critical services from outages
How it works, in 5 easy steps
- 1Consultation
Discuss opportunities to improve energy affordability, modernize your infrastructure, and strengthen resilience.
- 2Project Plan
Get matched with pre-qualified developer(s) to assess project viability, funding options, and operational benefits.
- 3Procurement and financing
Select the best procurement and financing pathway, including EaaS, ESPC, and cooperative purchasing contract.
- 4Development
Enter into an agreement with the developer and redirect monthly utility fees to them. You can also use your own capital.
- 5Launch
Implementation is fast-tracked and developer assumes responsibility for ongoing operations, maintenance, optimization, and predictable energy costs for the life of the agreement.
Achieve long-term affordability, resilience, and budget stability without CapEx.
Take control of your energy future
Learn how cities are protecting budgets from energy rate volatility while modernizing critical infrastructure and advancing sustainability goals with innovative public-private partnerships that reduce risk, improve resilience, and create lasting taxpayer value.
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Our strategic partners
With a network of more than 50 industry leaders across energy, technology, financing, engineering, and infrastructure development, Schneider Electric enables public agencies to navigate energy affordability challenges, fund critical infrastructure projects, and accelerate modernization. Together, we help organizations improve budget stability and access capital build resilient communities.
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Public Purpose, Private Capital
Christine Weydig, Energy Infrastructure Lead
George Karayannis, Public Sector Segment Lead
Learn how public agencies can deploy innovative energy infrastructure solutions while ensuring fair, open, and transparent procurement. Explore how P3 models like EaaS and ESPC can compound limited public funds with private capital to accelerate critical infrastructure upgrades while reducing financial risk and preserving taxpayer dollars.
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Real-world success stories
Highlighting what’s possible when energy innovation, public purpose, and private capital join forces.
Piscataway, NJ: 2.9 MW microgrid and solar across 8 buildings
Featuring 28 EV charging stations, New Jersey’s largest municipal deployment, and battery energy storage for up to five days of backup power, “Piscataway Goes Green” is projected to cut the township’s carbon footprint by 50% and save $19M over 20 years.
Expertise you trust
Let us help you rapidly scope, finance, and deploy
From lowering energy costs and modernizing aging infrastructure to improving resilience and securing new funding, ARI helps you identify the right path and accelerate progress toward your goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
Energy as a Service (EaaS) lets customers partner with experts who fund and manage on-site energy systems with no upfront cost. Like Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), EaaS shifts capital burden to the provider, who designs, builds, owns, and maintains the system for a monthly fee that’s typically similar to existing utility costs. EaaS also locks in pricing for predictable energy spend and offers more flexibility than PPAs, supporting resilience, decarbonization, and infrastructure goals.
Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) is a budget-neutral way to fund energy projects. An Energy Service Company (ESCO) partners with you to deliver long-term facility improvements and efficiency upgrades without CapEx. Projects are paid through guaranteed energy and operational savings, helping you modernize infrastructure, cut costs, and reinvest in your community. We manage everything from planning to performance verification. Unlike EaaS, you own the assets.
If you already have solar, you’re ahead of the game! Most solar arrays can’t operate when the grid is down or dynamically respond to grid pricing to reduce your energy costs. By adding battery energy storage and controls, you can use solar power to maintain operations during outages or when prices are highest. If your system is over 10 years old, now is the time to refresh it and add these features—while clean energy tax credits are still available.
Yes. Schneider Electric always supports transparent, open, and fair procurement. You can use our public sector compliant government cooperative purchasing contract. You can also refer to our “Public Purpose, Private Capital: Rethinking Energy Infrastructure Funding” white paper.
They’ve been vetted for their:
- Technical expertise and track record
- Prior relevant experience
- Ability to deliver microgrids and energy infrastructure quickly and professionally
- Ability to finance projects so customers don’t need to use their own capital
Just use the form below to tell us about your planned resilience project(s) and our experts will reach out for a consultation. You can also contact us at reslience@se.com for more info.
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