Energy company Eversource recently assisted a Hartford-based nonprofit with the financing and installation of energy efficiency upgrades at its Asylum Avenue headquarters.

As a result of the upgrades, HARC, which provides services to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and their families, is expected to save more than 89,000 kilowatt-hours in annual electricity savings, and nearly 2.2 thousand CCF in annual natural gas savings – resulting more than $16,000 a year in utility costs.

The project included new, high-efficiency indoor and outdoor lighting, HVAC equipment and a new gas boiler. Thomaston’s JK Energy Solutions developed and performed the upgrade work.

HARC will save more than 1.2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and approximately 33 thousand CCF throughout the lifetime of the newly installed equipment, which is approximately $223,000 in energy savings.

“Working with Eversource, the Connecticut Green Bank and JK Energy Solutions, we were able to create a modern, more comfortable office space without having to divert funding from other sources,” HARC President and CEO Andrea Barton Reeves said in a statement. “The overall feel of our office is important for the work we do, for both our clients and employees. We are also excited to see how the year-after-year energy savings will help from an operations perspective.”

Eversource assisted HARC in securing nearly $51,000 in Energize Connecticut incentives to offset the cost of the project. HARC will finance the remaining project cost over the next 17 years through the Connecticut Green Bank’s C-PACE program.