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Lexington, Mass. – October 23, 2018 – FirstFuel Software, the global leader in business customer engagement for the energy industry, today announced that its Vice President of Energy Markets, Austin …
With data from over six million business customer meters in our database, our building engineering team is continuously analyzing and comparing performance on a building by building basis. Recently, they …
Lexington, Mass. – July 26, 2017 – FirstFuel Software, the global leader in business customer engagement for the energy industry, announced today that it has experienced continued growth in 2017 …
Lexington, MA – March 14, 2017 – FirstFuel Software, the global leader in business customer engagement for the energy industry, today shared insights into its 2016 corporate momentum, announcing that …
This BU Today article highlights Robert Kaufmann’s recent study which found that solar power saves everyone money by delivering benefits for all ratepayers and a greater reduction in greenhouse gases. “Until …
This Time.com article highlights the major changes in the energy industry which are uprooting the business models of electric utility companies around the globe. The article features thoughts from Swapnil Shah, FirstFuel’s …
DOE study eyes 40% cut in commercial building use Source: Christa Marshall, E&E Publishing, LLC Published: Friday, May 6, 2016 A new Department of Energy report plots ways that leased …
FirstFuel Software, the trusted source for customer intelligence for energy providers, today was named a 2016 New Energy Pioneer by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). The winners were recognized on …
FirstFuel built its business around virtual energy auditing, but that business is now just one piece of the puzzle as it courts utilities and energy retailers in North America and …
We recently saw a small change that may mark a major shift in thinking about energy, as well as some utility wheeling and dealing. Strap in, it’s time for Friday’s news …
2016 is here, and with it comes another update from JD Power on utility customers’ satisfaction. The good news is that this year, the trendline is up. Business customers’ satisfaction …
Customer relationships are at the core of every thriving business, so it’s logical to assume that solid CRM strategies aren’t far behind. But, while many organizations are focused on emulating …
Lexington, Mass. – (BUSINESS WIRE)–FirstFuel Software, the trusted source for customer intelligence for energy providers, today announced partnerships with 13 new utilities and related agencies. Growing its client roster significantly …
Along with social, mobile and cloud, analytics and associated data technologies have earned a place as one of the core disruptors of the digital age. 2015 saw big data initiatives …
Employing technology to give customers better information about their electricity use — and more options for managing that use — can enhance public power utilities’ relationships with their customers, save …
The emergent field of energy analytics could soon be a boon to sustainability. Several companies are now selling energy analytics apps that are superior to manual, data-crunching spreadsheets. The new …
Recent reports suggest that electric vehicle (EV) users are frustrated by the disproportionate car-to-charging-station ratio. With one charging station for every 10 electric vehicles, EV drivers are often trapped in vicious …
BOSTON, Dec. 07, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — C3 Energy, EnerNOC, Inc., FirstFuel Software, and Opower Inc., leading providers of energy management software, congratulate the US House of Representatives for passing …
Lexington, Mass. – December 2, 2015 – FirstFuel Software, the trusted source for customer intelligence for energy providers, today announced that its work with E.ON UK on the utility’s Energy …
As part of its ‘Massachusetts As a First Customer’ program, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) has awarded FirstFuel Software, the trusted source for customer intelligence for energy providers, a …
A revolution is happening in the energy sector. From the new regulations pushed out earlier this summer by the EPA’s Clean Power Plan to the continued hype around renewables like …
Insights into how organizations can leverage Deep Data to better understand customers and improve business strategy, as identified by Badri Raghavan, CTO and chief data scientist at FirstFuel.
At its best, technology is able to tackle huge problems with remarkable ease. The General Services Administration, for example, has found a way to save $13 million a year in …
French utility EDF is opening up to the world of start-ups with a 90 million euro fund that has already screened 1,000 projects and invested in half a dozen, including …
Buildings cause $200 billion in energy waste each year. Business Insider reports on two enterprises that are using advanced technologies to fix inefficiencies within their buildings.
Lucid Design Group doesn’t want its BuildingOS software to replace the hundreds of different building energy management, analysis and operations software products out there. Nor does it want to build …
The importance of strategic investors in cleantech has been evident to both venture capital investors and those tracking the cleantech VC market over the past few years. 2015 is proving to …
Opower has signed its largest deal to date, a nearly $90 million, seven-year contract with Pacific Gas & Electric. Specific details of the contract were not given on the company’s …
Electranova Capital, the energy cleantech venture capital fund managed by Idinvest Partners and strategically backed by the EDF group, along with BPI and Allianz, announces its investment in the North …
Boston Business Journal put together the Top 15 Venture deals in Massachusetts this year. It profiles FirstFuel along with CEO Swapnil Shah. Check it out!
The last big wave of venture investment in clean-tech startups has long since crashed and rolled back. But if you’re making software instead of something produced by a factory, private …
FirstFuel Software Inc., a provider of energy-management software and services, closed a $23 million funding round that it will use to expand its business. Next World Capital led the Series C …
FirstFuel Softwareclosed $23 million in Series C financing in a round led by Next World Capital and joined by new investor Electranova Capital. All prior investors, including Battery Ventures, Rockport Capital, …
Some people tend to think of smart meters, solar panels, and energy audits in the same way they think about home improvements. But the owners of commercial property such as …
Startup FirstFuel Software, which sells analytics technology for uncovering energy efficiency opportunities in large building portfolios, has raised $23 million more in venture capital and plans to put most of …
Bringing change to the utilities industry may not be sexy, but it’s big business—judging by the sizable new funding round for a local energy analytics software firm. Lexington, Mass.-based FirstFuel …
As the venture market heats up, Freestyle Capital has closed a new fund at $60 million, which is 50% larger than its previous pool, Yuliya Chernova reports for Dow Jones …
FirstFuel Software, a Lexington-based company with the goal of revolutionizing the $2.2 trillion global utility sector, is planning two new office openings and more growth following an influx of $23 …
The last big wave of venture investment in clean-tech startups has long since crashed and rolled back. But if you’re making software instead of something produced by a factory, private …
FirstFuel Software Inc ., which provides software to help electric utilities manage energy use and businesses reduce energy bills, raised $23 million in a Series C round. Next World Capital led …
FirstFuel has raised $23 million in its Round C funding to move its energy auditing and utility measurement and verification business further into Europe. The startup also looks to expand …
Remember the days when a residential move would mean not just a new telephone number, but often a whole new telephone provider? The days when people and businesses fell into …
Five years ago, as the General Services Administration planned several building renovation projects, GSA leaders decided to take advantage of new technologies to tie traditionally separate building sensor and control …
With more data available than ever before – coupled with the emergence of new technologies and techniques to easily access … (Starts on p. 16.)
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama underscored the mounting prevalence of a full portfolio of energy solutions including alternative energy, like solar. In view of the …
VC-founder relationships: They’re complicated. Not unlike real marriages, these partnerships come with a host of ups and downs—and through sickness and health, these parties are expected to stay committed. One would …
Theatrics were under way at the House of Blues on a brisk Boston morning last November. Alas, there were no music or comedic acts on the stage; instead, the headliners …
FirstFuel CEO Swap Shah’s predictions for the energy industry in 2015.
Efficient energy consumption is the golden goose of American progress, the touchstone initiative whose evolution can ensure peace and prosperity for future generations. And the key to unlocking it lies …
It’s no secret that today’s consumer looks and acts differently than the consumer of fifteen years ago. While in the past, consumers may have been satisfied with standardized services and …
Just when energy CIOs thought they were done navigating through the tsunami of smart grid data, Boom! They’re hit with the pressure to focus on customer data. In North America, …
Google GOOGL -1.57%’s Nest Labs and other residential energy management technologies may have better name recognition, but there’s also a tremendous amount of innovation happening in software and cloud services …
Gründerszene: Firstfuel kann mit seiner Datenanalyse Versorgern helfen, Photovoltaik-Anlagen für Gewerbeanlagen zu verkaufen, auch wenn sie eigentlich der Steigerung der Energieeffizienz gilt. Es ist eines der vielen Start-ups im Energiemarkt …
Small businesses can now benefit from a new tool which will help UK SMEs analyze where they can save energy. E.ON has teamed up with US energy intelligence company FirstFuel …
E.ON today announced it has teamed up with US energy intelligence company FirstFuel Software to help British small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) benefit from energy saving analysis and tools which …
With school in full swing, this seems like an appropriate time to offer some lessons in energy efficiency. Having conducted audits of hundreds of schools nationwide, the FirstFuel team has …
There’s an interesting shift happening in the energy industry today that’s opening the door for innovative technologies. Utility companies are changing their ways by moving beyond simply sending bills to …
Deep in the bowels of the Stata Center on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus is an energy war room. A row of flat-screen monitors lines one wall, showing exhaustive …
Large commercial buildings are the fastest-growing energy consumers in the U.S. Why? Because most of them are not very energy-aware. Utilities and city planners understand this problem and have targeted …
Opower doesn’t often enter into strategic partnerships with companies that overlap with its business. The behavioral efficiency company has been very successful landing utility partners so far, and other than …
FirstFuel’s Badri Raghavan discusses how to select the right information-rich data streams to achieve energy efficiency targets.
China has emerged as the world’s most voracious energy consumer, impacting both the political and commercial climates in the U.S. During World War II, 75 percent of the Allied Powers’ …
As the energy efficiency industry gets more sophisticated, building owners and managers are increasingly interested in optimizing energy use with new technology and state-of-the-art equipment. It’s critical to understand, however, …
FirstFuel Software sniffs out waste in the District of Columbia’s 400 public buildings with the help of smart meters and special software. subscription required
You’ve heard of “big data,” of course, but what about “deep data?” Fear not, our goal here is not to foist another industry buzzword upon you. But given the ongoing …
As President Obama pushes ahead on a strategy for confronting climate change that relies heavily on energy efficiency, some Americans may see flashbacks of Jimmy Carter trying to persuade them …
Summer is just around the corner. In an effort to maintain a comfortably cool environment during the heat, many people blast air conditioning and turn fans to high gear without …
With the advent of cutting-edge technologies like smart meters and smart analytics to help interpret the rich data, buildings are now smarter than ever before, brimming with insights about what …
Swapnil Shah doesn’t have anything against cleaner-burning fuels or renewable energy. He just thinks North American businesses – and the buildings they operate in – should be using less energy, …
Move over social media. The next hot tech sector might just be the very unsexy-sounding energy efficiency business. Companies in this industry use sophisticated algorithms to analyze how much energy …
For nearly a century, electric utilities in the U.S. focused on delivering safe, reliable and affordable power. As power has become increasingly critical to every aspect of our lives, however, …
The General Services Administration (GSA) needed a scalable way to leverage its smart metering investment across 400+ buildings. Additionally, the GSA, the second largest property manager in the US, is …
In the past, energy was seen simply as an input that was hard to measure in detail and always ended in a high cost. That perception has changed, and energy …
We’re all dying to know Opower’s plans after reports Wednesday that it’s planning to go public. What’s next? What is the company’s valuation? How soon will they go public? It’s …
FirstFuel Software enhanced its Remote Building Analytics (RBA) platform to drive commercial energy efficiency at mass scale. FirstFuel also hired former Groom Energy executive Paul Baier as vice president of …
FirstFuel Software, an energy use intelligence company, launched Wednesday its enhanced Remote Building Analytics platform, which uses advanced data analytics to drive commercial energy efficiency on a large scale. Leading …
When asking energy efficiency software companies about their competition, the most common answer you’ll hear is, “Well, we don’t really compete with them,” or “We may seem like them, but …
FirstFuel Co-Founders Swap Shah and Nalin Kulatilika reveal that while the commercial building market spends billions of dollars each year on efficiency, it continues to lack trusted sources of building …
FirstFuel CEO Swap Shah believes that signs point to significant change for more intelligent buildings in the years to come. An increased focus on energy efficiency is driving a growing …
Can the virtual energy audit replace the conventional physical audit? Pose that question among energy efficiency professionals and watch the fur fly. EnergyEfficiencyMarkets.com recently asked Brian Wright, a senior mechanical …
Was 2013 the year efficiency got cool, sexy and cheap? Not quite. But it did become cooler, sexier and cheaper than ever before — driven largely by innovations in intelligent …
FirstFuel has raised $8.5 million in a Series B round aimed at expanding its remote building analytics to new markets — and, if the round’s lead investor is any indication, …
Most commercial building owners or property managers would love to uncover operational changes that could save them on water, electricity, natural gas or other energy costs. But on-site audits can …
This startup’s data analytics can quickly and cheaply determine the energy information of a big building without anyone stepping in the place…
How much energy can your organization save through relatively simple operational changes, without having all sorts of people involved to figure it out? The federal government’s General Services Administration (GSA) — …
In this time of government shutdowns and showdowns, thinking about efficiency as dictated by legislation may seem a bit amusing. But, Efficiency Maine, an independent trust that serves as a …
Energy managers know that every commercial building is complex. The upside to that complexity is that many of these buildings offer large energy efficiency potential. Through identifying efficiency opportunities in …
Something in Washington DC appears to be working, and it’s an energy efficiency platform delivering savings in a huge amount of commercial space. FirstFuel Software announced its Remote Building Analytics …
While the federal government strives to reopen after a weeks-long shutdown, Washington, D.C. remains busy working on making its 30 million square feet of buildings more energy-efficient — and it’s …
One innovation in building energy efficiency is software that enables virtual energy audits. So far, more than a billion square feet of commercial buildings have been analyzed this way. The …
Communication between utilities and their customers has revolved around charges listed on customers’ monthly bills, until recently. Engaging customers across entire service territories was challenging and limited in its perceived …
Let’s face it, no matter how many business processes we automate or how many smart technologies we implement, “the human factor” will remain an important part of the equation. This …
Maine is achieving energy savings in many tried-and-true ways – weatherization, fuel switching and installation of high efficiency light bulbs. But the state also is not afraid to explore the …
Pushed by the White House and championed by PG&E and other California utilities, the Green Button has become a national phenomenon. The Green Button helps both utility customers and the …
The U.S. produces an estimated 520 million tons of urban waste each year. And, if you have ever passed downwind of a landfill on a summer day, you likely are …
We expect everything to be fast now. In fact, researchers warn that our expectations of instant gratification are creating a “culture of impatience” that is rewiring our brains and changing …
A pretty big wad of money – $40 billion – is hiding somewhere inside the lights, AC, thermostats, furnaces and fans of our offices, stores, hospitals and schools…
Driving improvements in the built environment is extremely impactful because buildings emit more than a third of our country’s greenhouse gases. Furthermore,according to IBM, roughly 30 percent of building energy …
Over the past few years, capturing and storing data to create massive datasets—or Big Data—has captured the attention of business executives and energy experts alike. As discussed in McKinsey & …
You’ve heard about “Big Data” and how it’s being used to track our purchases and preferences, but data can also be used to help buildings save energy. One company on …
Each time I visit Boston, New York, San Francisco, or any of the other dozen or so cities I seem to find myself traveling between these days, I peer out …
Through the lens of a building’s energy consumption data—including data in the industry format “Green Button” that is becoming increasingly available from utilities —FirstFuel’s zero-touch audit can understand how a …
About half (51 percent) of all energy efficiency savings in commercial buildings can be achieved through operational improvements, at little or no cost to building owners and operators, according to …
If you’ve ever walked into your office building on a weekend, you’ve probably experienced one of the most easily identifiable energy-efficiency problems. Chances are good that the empty building was …
Research of the medium- and large-scale U.S. commercial building market conducted by building energy analytics company FirstFuel has revealed that half of all energy-efficiency savings in commercial buildings are achievable …
There are, roughly speaking, two ways to make a building more energy efficient: change how you use it, or change something about the building itself. Think about this in the …
Last year, the two of us helped organize a White House summit on information disclosure policy. The preparatory material we sent out before the summit to the more than 300 …
As the new year begins, we take a look at the unique and intriguing opportunities for VERGE technologies. Here we include a collection of trends on the emerging role of …
Last week’s, VERGE conference explored how innovation in energy, building and transportation technologies is transforming sustainability to generate “radical efficiencies.” Innovation was the buzzword as discussions throughout the conference showcased …
Commercial buildings account for more than 40 percent of all energy used in the US. Of this, somewhere between 15 and 30 percent is wasted. Cost and energy savings do not …
The commercial building sector is the largest energy consumer in the US, which means it has been a rich initial target for efforts to cut back usage in ways that …
Energy efficiency may be the cheapest way for utilities to reduce power demand, and thus avoid building expensive and polluting new power plants. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to …
Barely two years after launching, FirstFuel Software’s remote energy auditing platform for commercial buildings is already in use with some of the nation’s largest utilities and government agencies, including the …
The Boston Business Journal has announced the winners of the Best Green Practices Awards for 2012, and FirstFuel Software was named a winner for the INVENTION category…
Patrick Goddard doesn’t like energy audits. For him, as director of facilities for the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, an audit means a day spent walking around one of 22 buildings …
Can Green Button, the emerging energy data standard for U.S. households, find a home in the commercial buildings sector? It looks like major grid players like Schneider Electric, Itron and …
The firm looks to be on a roll and just closed a $10 million round A led by new investor Rockport Capital, which is joining existing investors Nth Power and …
FirstFuel Software Inc. may be that elusive clean-technology company that’s quick to market. Founded two years ago, it is already drawing revenue from notoriously difficult customers–the federal government and utilities–and …