In an effort to save energy, reduce maintenance costs, and leverage investments in existing building management system, more and more facility managers are beginning to research and deploy fault detection […]

Avoiding Energy Scams Over the last few years, energy consumers and building owners have been confronted with several internet and phone scams. An “agent” will impersonate a utility company, or […]

Beyond Saving Energy + Water: Other Ways My Colleagues Better Our World Bright Power’s mission is to “improve the comfort, health, and productivity of buildings and their occupants while eliminating their negative […]

Steam heating systems can be tricky. These ancient systems are deceptively simple and notoriously difficult to regulate. Most owners and managers allocate maintenance budget to the boilers themselves.  However, when […]

Top 3 Tips for Energy Purchasing Contracts Real Estate executives are all too familiar with those “lowest price at the moment, buy it now” cold calls from energy brokers trying […]

While my sustainability work (which includes managing project scopes such as Passive House Institute US, Enterprise Green Communities, and LEED for Homes) made me aware of the importance of indoor […]

  I was planning to write an uplifting piece about the “irreversible momentum of clean energy,” following on what President Obama wrote, just before leaving office, in Science Magazine. If […]

Just before leaving office, President Obama wrote in Science magazine, about the “irreversible momentum of clean energy.” Just look at the employment trends: “~2.2 million Americans… currently employed in the design, […]

A Thanksgiving message from our CEO, Jeff Perlman A few weeks ago, a Bright Power employee attended a tenant meeting at a building that recently completed a heating system upgrade […]