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DES stands for Detailed Energy Study and is the portion of a performance contract in which the existing facility is audited, upgrades are recommended (usually called Energy Conservation Measures or ECMs), calculations are performed to determine savings from the ECMs, and contractor pricing of the ECMs is received.
