Government Cost Savings Ideas

Put ideas here for how to help government be more efficient.

Green/ESCO operations: using contractors called ESCOs (what's it stand for?), governments (municipal, state, agencies, etc) can contract with an energy provider that comes in, installs solar, new boilers etc, at "no cost" to the government entity. The entity then buys energy from the ESCO for some period of time, with a guaranteed savings. I have only limited experience, but from what I undrestand, the savings is in the order of 20%, plus, depending on the contract, some sell-back to the grid, if appliable.