Multifamily Affordable
At a Glance
Owners and operators choose Bright Power as their partner to minimize operations costs and maintenance issues all while improving resident comfort. Our partnerships with affordable and supportive housing owners result in more efficient, resilient buildings with lower operating costs for long-term affordability. This allows you to focus on providing quality support services and housing.
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Our Services
By integrating expertise from design through construction, Bright Power enhances new construction performance, delivers superior resident comfort and health, and minimizes both carbon emissions and long-term operating costs. Our services include:
EnergyScoreCards
The journey to savings starts and ends here—with data! Benchmark, analyze, track, and report usage and cost with Bright Power’s proprietary EnergyScoreCards platform. With your dedicated Energy Analyst and team of experts, you will be able to make timely cost-effective decisions that increase annual savings. Our analytics platform also easily integrates with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, Enterprise Green Communities, and, USGBC, providing reporting, certification submission, and compliance.
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Energy Audits & Feasibility Studies
Our technical and engineering team go onsite to unearth savings by testing and assessing all major systems. Based on building performance and data, we prioritize improvements with your mission, budget, and incentives in mind. We will also report which systems simply need maintenance and fine-tuning to operate at peak performance, saving you money. Is your building in need of an energy and water audit? Learn more here.
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Rehab Consulting
We guide your design team through the process of rehabbing distressed, vacant, or inefficient buildings. This ensures your energy and sustainability goals are met while keeping comfort high and operating costs low. Our approach to tenant-in-place rehabs keeps resident disruption to a minimum. When it comes to adaptive reuse or gut rehabs, we’ll optimize the property for its new purpose and help you select the right equipment.
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Incentive Program Management
We understand the complexity of the ever-changing federal, state, and local incentive program landscape. With experience managing hundreds of incentive programs for our clients, we will find the best one(s) for you. Some of our clients have earned incentives that pay for up to 100% of project costs.
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Resiliency: Solar, Storage, Cogeneration
Build in resiliency with solar photovoltaic (PV), cogeneration, and battery storage. Our onsite solutions provide savings, increase resident safety, build site resiliency, and keep your building operating during grid outages or blackouts. Based on your unique building design, we will recommend the right resiliency solution for you.
Loan/Financing Assistance
Energy improvements can translate into additional loan proceeds. Savings from high performing systems increases cash flow, allowing you to service the loan. Bright Power presents sustainability plans and financial reporting to lenders. Our experience improving existing buildings means we have data that proves similar projects’ success, demonstrating the long-term financial benefits to your properties.
Energy Supply Purchasing
Reduce supply-side energy costs and create budget certainty with Bright Power’s energy procurement services. How do we do it? Our in-house energy and water, data science, and project implementation expertise. Through Bright Power’s Bulk Energy Procurement Initiative (BEPI), our team has helped affordable and supportive housing organizations stabilize and reduce operating costs, saving our two dozen member clients millions of dollars.
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Compliance
Turn compliance obligations into savings opportunities. Compliance regulations are designed to ensure buildings perform as efficiently as possible, leading to reductions in building waste, cost, and carbon footprint. Let us handle benchmarking, energy auditing and retro-commissioning ordinances for you. In turn, you can learn how your building performs, realize savings, and spend your time tending to your business beyond energy and water.
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Multifamily Affordable Case Studies
Explore our collection of Case Studies featuring completed projects.
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Ocean Bay Apartments
Ocean Bay Apartments—a 24-building, 1,395-unit complex located in Far Rockaway, New York—was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and began redevelopment in 2017.
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The Caesura
The Caesura was built with the environment and long-term sustainability in mind, incorporating energy-efficient elements throughout the design.
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Pinewood Hall
Pinewood Hall is a 5-story, 171-unit affordable housing community located in Roselle, New Jersey.
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Creston Avenue Residence
Bright Power worked with the team to integrate the solar PV system into the building design.
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