Bluestone Energy Services was recently featured by Boston Business Journal for the opening of their Texas office and the hiring of two new executives. From the article:
Bluestone Energy Services LLC plans to gain traction in the Lone Star state with its new office in Forth Worth, Texas.
The Norwell-based business with offices in Baltimore, New York City, Chicago and Williamsville, N.Y., has opened a new office in Texas as a way to tap into new markets.
“We have traditionally expanded into areas in the country where electric companies have deregulation and programs that support the work we do,” said Sean Fuller, vice president of business development and marketing at Bluestone.
The provider of energy services has tapped Tim Hirschenhofer, Bluestone’s director of data center energy engineering, to lead the effort there. And once fully established, the plan is to ramp up the headcount in Texas just as it recently did in New Jersey, according to Fuller. In total, the company has 39 employees and has been adding 20 percent per year.
“As we’ve expanded, we put one person in a region and as we gain traction, we add more people,” Fuller said. “Eighteen months ago, we didn’t have anyone in New Jersey and now we have sales and marketing and engineering.”
As a regional operating division of OpTerra, Bluestone designs and implements various programs allowing large commercial and industrial customers including American Airlines, Coca Cola and Verizon to increase energy while saving.
In fact, the company recently landed a contract with Boston University to install new fixtures in the school’s track building, which is expected to help BU save 770,000 kilowatts each year, a 40 percent reduction in the track and center’s energy use.
Bluestone also installed its control system which enables scheduling, dimming, task and tuning, according to Fuller. Because the school has a five-year plan to reduce energy consumption campus-wide by 2017, Bluestone said the list of additional work it can do for the university is limitless.
“One of the benefits of when you install a backbone in it gets on their network and is scalable to other buildings on their campus,” Fuller said. “It lends itself to doing more.”
Bluestone also designed and installed high-efficiency lighting systems in American Airline’s cargo and ground equipment maintenance buildings, which provided an annual energy savings of $66,160 and utility incentive of $34,516. And for Dunkin’ Donuts, Bluestone replaced existing 400-watt metal halides with high efficiency T8 and LED technologies saving 952,858 kilowatt hours in less than a year.
And last year, Bluestone completed the largest LED manufacturing installation in New England.
While Bluestone does 40 percent of its work in lighting, it also provides mechanical and comprehensive work, according to Fuller. And all of its work is offered to customers in six different areas including commercial/office, hotel, food processing, hospitals, retail and grocery and industrial manufacturing.
