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By admin on Oct 03, 2016

via GIPHY Electric markets typically either allow customer choice-or they don’t. And what’s available to you is generally dependent on what state you live and/or operate your business in, so it helps to learn more about the different business energy providers out there. In this post, we’ll delve into the differences between the two, how to recognize what you have, […]

By admin on Sep 21, 2016

At its core, Brightergy CTO Bruce Wang sees everything he does as problem-solving. And for him, it’s the little things that matter when building a powerful technology platform. Bruce Wang is unafraid to speak-though he may be afraid of heights. The Brightergy team is gathered on a college campus 30 minutes north of our downtown KC headquarters, where we’ve been […]

By admin on Sep 06, 2016

That’s right. We put our own energy data under the microscope to uncover what kind of story it tells. It’s a Tuesday morning at Brightergy’s Kansas City headquarters and the R&D team is having their daily stand-up meeting about the latest sprints and projects for our energy data platform, BrighterLink. There’s little standing, but the conversation is easy, meandering into […]

By admin on Aug 23, 2016

by Bruce Wang via GIPHY It’s official: with the season opener only a few days away, the 2016 college football season is upon us. There’s much to discuss, but one team-and specifically one coach-has received a lot of buzz this offseason: the one and only James Joseph Harbaugh-or as most know him, Jim Harbaugh, the head football coach of the […]

By admin on Aug 09, 2016

Everything about UMass Amherst is big. Their nearly 1,450-acre campus is home to 30,000 students during the school year (yeah, my college had just over 2,000 students). Their campus is so big, they have their own zip code-and their own police department (they share the fire department with the town of Amherst). There are more than 7 million items in […]

By admin on Aug 09, 2016

by Rachel Simmons and Bruce Wang via GIPHY We have found, through thousands of conversations, that business owners often assume there is nothing they can do to cut their energy bill and therefore don’t measure their energy data. This is matched with similar opinions of household owners, who are constantly trying to lower their energy bills by checking out the […]

By admin on Jul 26, 2016

by Adam Blake Most successful businesses measure and manage data maniacally. They are likely to have many data engineers and experts whose sole purpose is to effectively manage data for efficient business functions, and they tend to pay them a decent amount too (you can find the best guide on data engineering salaries to learn more). At Brightergy, for example, […]

By admin on Jul 21, 2016

by Jessica Oakley via GIPHY If you’ve looked at your electric bill lately, you will find numerous line items for different charges, the two largest being Energy and Demand. So what are they and why pay for both? Energy is power consumed over time. If you have a 100 Watt (W) light bulb running for one hour, that uses 100 […]

By admin on Jul 20, 2016

AMHERST, MASS (PRWEB) JULY 20, 2016 The University of Massachusetts Amherst has embarked on a major solar energy initiative that will cut its electric bills by $6.2 million over 20 years and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 31,000 non-metric tons of carbon dioxide. At no upfront cost to itself, the university is installing 15,576 photovoltaic panels across […]

By admin on Jul 11, 2016

by Rachel Simmons and Bruce Wang Last month, registration opened for Amazon Web Services’s (AWS) re:Invent, billed as the largest gathering of the “global cloud computing community.” On the splashy conference website, video imagery zooms energetically through the Vegas skyline, through spinning DJ’s and confetti, and hotel ballrooms packed with people. It promises technical deep dives on topics like the […]