NRG and Lucid Join Forces to Bring Smarter Building Management to Businesses
July 10 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New Channel Partnership Will Bring 2,500 Office
Buildings Online in 2015 with Lucid’s BuildingOS Platform,
Empowering the World’s Leading Companies to Make Smarter Energy
Choices
NRG Renew LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc.
(NYSE:NRG), the country’s largest independent power producer, and
Lucid, the leader in cloud-based building management, today
announced a channel partnership to accelerate the adoption of
Lucid’s BuildingOS platform among NRG Renew’s client base. The goal
of this partnership is to help organizations accelerate their path
to clean and distributed energy by modernizing their portfolios of
commercial buildings. To kick off the partnership, Lucid will
onboard 2,500 buildings by the end of 2015 for select NRG clients
to empower them to build and execute their path to greater
efficiency and renewable energy.
By integrating and aggregating portfolio-wide metering and
building systems, BuildingOS is expected to enable NRG Renew
customers to unlock new value from their building data and chart
their path toward a more efficient use of energy and conversion to
clean energy sources. The powerful reporting engine in BuildingOS
is intended to ensure that employees across an organization can
instantly access and share that data in real-time, resulting in
quick, measurable efficiency and productivity gains. NRG Renew will
also use BuildingOS to help clients identify opportunities for
clean energy, efficiency and smarter energy management
practices.
To date, building management software has been limited to use by
experts or specialists. NRG Renew and Lucid are dedicated to
building a clean energy future where key data is readily accessible
and employees across an organization have the power to make a
difference. This new partnership marks the first step towards
putting that power directly into the hands of the end-user.
“Our goal is to develop scalable, productized microgrid
solutions that bring efficiency, renewable energy and intelligent
control to our energy system,” said Robyn Beavers, senior vice
president of innovation at NRG Renew. “Our partnership with Lucid
will help us deliver on that goal by empowering organizations to
use energy data to guide decisions that make those solutions a
reality.”
“We are thrilled about our partnership with NRG Renew,” said
Vladi Shunturov, co-founder and CEO of Lucid. “Our flexible,
cloud-based platform is built for the enterprise: it allows
multiple users across an organization to easily manage buildings
and meters; and its suite of intuitive, purpose-specific
applications enables each team member to solve their unique
business problems while increasing cross-departmental visibility
and collaboration.”
NRG Renew has already announced renewable energy partnerships
with several leading companies, including Unilever, Starwood
Hotels & Resorts and Kaiser Permanente.
In addition to offering BuildingOS 2.0 to its customer-base, NRG
also plans to bring its own offices across the United States onto
the platform in order to monitor and reduce its energy use.
Partnership Delivers Benefits Across Organizations
The partnership between NRG Renew and Lucid provides businesses
and their employees greater control of their building data and the
tools to collaborate across departments to make the right decisions
based on the right data and analysis. The partnership is designed
to deliver a variety of benefits to different departments who touch
energy data, for example:
Building Operations Teams
- Optimize building performance.
By aggregating real-time, portfolio-wide data, BuildingOS allows
users to see, in a glance, what's happening in their buildings and
then dig in further to identify low- and no-cost opportunities to
save energy and money.
- Manage peak demand. More than 40
percent of utility bills are spent on peak demand charges. The
BuildingOS Trend Analysis App helps by showing users in real-time
when their buildings hit their peaks, empowering customers to
better manage peak demand.
- Detect issues and abnormalities.
The information provided by BuildingOS allows customers to analyze
and review multiple meters at the same time for easy ad-hoc
reporting over any timescale.
Sustainability Teams
- Drive behavioral efficiency.
BuildingOS uses embeddable building blocks to showcase real-time
building performance and green features in an engaging,
user-friendly way so that people and teams across the organization
can collaborate around shared sustainability goals.
Finance Teams
- Easily collect and analyze utility
bill data. BuildingOS reduces the amount of time spent entering
all of their utility bill data into spreadsheets. BuildingOS
integrates directly with customers’ utility provider, automating
the collection and analysis of meter-level data across their
portfolio.
- Automate reporting and
compliance. BuildingOS connects directly and pushes energy data
to the Energy Star system to meet reporting requirements
automatically.
About NRG Renew
NRG Renew, a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc., owns or has partial
investment in more than 150 renewable energy projects totaling
approximately 4,500 gross MWac of solar and wind capacity in
operation throughout North America. More information is available
at http://www.nrg.com/renew.
About NRG
NRG is leading customer-driven change in the U.S. energy
industry by delivering cleaner and smarter energy choices, while
building on the strength of the nation’s largest and most diverse
competitive power portfolio. A Fortune 200 company, we create value
through reliable and efficient conventional generation while
driving innovation in solar and renewable power, electric vehicle
ecosystems, carbon capture technology and customer-centric energy
solutions. Our retail electricity providers serve almost 3 million
residential and commercial customers throughout the country. More
information is available at www.nrg.com. Connect with NRG
Energy on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @nrgenergy
and @NRGMedia.
About Lucid
Lucid is making building management simple. By connecting people
to buildings, our intuitive solutions empower organizations to make
smarter decisions that reduce costs, improve occupant comfort, and
accelerate team productivity. Lucid is headquartered in Oakland,
California, with offices in Portland and Toronto. For more
information, please visit www.lucidconnects.com.
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