Post Tagged with: "Energy Conservation"

Bluestone Energy featured in Boston Business Journal article on job creation in energy sector

Bluestone was recently interviewed in the Boston Business journal article titled “HVAC, cheap natural gas fuel job creation in energy”. From the article: Sue Tierney, a managing partner at Analysis Group Inc., said that the Boston area is home to two major energy distribution companies: Nstar and National Grid. Nstar’s recently proposed merger with Connecticut utility company Northeast Utilities could result in some job consolidation, but likely more in Connecticut than here, she said. Bluestone […]

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Bluestone Energy’s President writes article for EDC Magazine about retrofit project at Colonnade Hotel

Bluestone Energy’s President writes article for EDC Magazine about retrofit project at Colonnade Hotel

Bluestone Energy’s President Peter Fairbanks recently wrote an article for EDC Magazine about the Colonnade Hotel partnering with Bluestone Energy Services to implement hotel-wide energy efficiency upgrades. After its initial evaluation of the hotel, Bluestone Energy Services successfully secured a $465,000 incentive payment from NSTAR that enabled Bluestone to make numerous eco-friendly improvements to dated, inefficient or otherwise failing systems. First, Bluestone Energy installed a new efficient chiller with frictionless oil-free compressors. This state-of-the-art chiller […]

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Bluestone Energy’s Gabriel Andreson writes article for EDC Magazine about how to evaluate LED Technologies

Bluestone Energy’s Director of Lighting Gabriel Andreson recently wrote an article for EDC Magazine titled “Evaluating LED Technology”, in which he reviews the ways facility managers and other buyers of LED technologies should evaluate the offerings in the marketplace. From the article: n order to better evaluate LED technology, there are a few key concepts that must be understood: Luminous Efficacy – This is defined as the number of lumens generated per watt of electricity […]

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Bluestone Energy featured in CFO Magazine article on recent retrofit work

Bluestone Energy featured in CFO Magazine article on recent retrofit work

Bluestone Energy was recently featured in an article titled “Energy Upgrades Bring Cool Savings”. From the article:   Some companies may be unaware of the opportunity. Hallahan says United Electric Controls was only vaguely aware of the NStar program until Bluestone approached the company with an upgrade proposal. “You may have heard about such rebates in general, but not what they are specifically, how to get them, or how much money you can get,” he […]

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Bluestone Energy’s Coy Stine interviewed in Boston Business Journal article on data center energy efficiency

Bluestone Energy’s Director of Data Center Services Coy Stine was recently interviewed in the Boston Business journal article titled “Local firms tap data center energy-efficiency market”. From the article: At Bluestone Energy Services, an engineering and project development firm founded in 1990, the opportunity for data centers has become a major focus over the past two years and has picked up speed this year, said Coy Stine, Bluestone’s director of data center services. The company […]

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Bluestone Energy’s Coy Stine writes article for Data Center Knowledge about retrofit strategies for data centers

Bluestone Energy’s Coy Stine writes article for Data Center Knowledge about retrofit strategies for data centers

Bluestone Energy’s Coy Stine, Director of Data Center Engineering, recently wrote about data center retrofit strategies in a piece for Data Center Knowledge. From the article: In these uncertain financial times, reducing data center operating costs has become a top corporate priority. Unfortunately, limited budgets often preclude efficiency initiatives that have high initial costs. An increasingly popular alternative approach involves leveraging technologies that improve the energy efficiency of existing equipment while minimizing up-front outlays and data-center […]

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Bluestone Energy’s Peter Fairbanks interviewed in Boston Business Journal

Bluestone Energy’s Peter Fairbanks interviewed in Boston Business Journal

Bluestone Energy’s President Peter Fairbanks was recently interviewed in the Boston Business Journal for their CEO Profile Segment. In the profile, Peter talks about Bluestone’s expansion and the energy conservation market. From the article: In 1990, Peter Fairbanks didn’t want to move to Connecticut for his job at an engineering company. So he started his own with his wife, Roberta, at the dining room table. At that time building-efficiency service companies were relatively rare, and […]

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Hurricane Electric’s Benny Ng interviewed for utility rebate piece in TechTarget.com

Hurricane Electric’s Benny Ng was recently interviewed for an article in TechTarget about their use of utility rebates in a recent upgrade. From the article:   Where did you get your incentives?  We put in a higher-[efficiency] (Eaton) UPS that cost more than the baseline UPS [uninterruptible power supply]. We’ll be getting a sizeable incentive on this. We did a skylight project. We had a bunch of skylights on the roof that we ripped out […]

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Bluestone Energy profiled in Baltimore Business Journal about recent expansion

Bluestone Energy was recently profiled in the Baltimore Business Journal about their recent addition of a Baltimore office. From the article: High electricity rates and local incentives for energy efficiency in Greater Baltimore have drawn a Massachusetts energy company to open an office here. Bluestone Energy Services of Norwell, Mass., opened what will initially be a small office with a regional staff of two salespeople, said Adam Fairbanks, Bluestone’s vice president for engineering and business development. But […]

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Bluestone Energy recently interviewed for Reuters article on energy conservation

Bluestone Energy was recently interviewed for an article on trends in energy conservation. From the article:   Of about 70 billion square feet (6.5 billion sq meters) of U.S. office space, as little as 1 billion square feet (93 million sq meters) have been retrofitted, Terzic said. To illustrate the potential, McKinsey & Co projected that U.S. investments of $520 billion in building efficiency through 2020 would yield $1.2 trillion in energy savings and reduce […]

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