At Blueprint Power, we believe that buildings play a critical role in the global energy transition. They are dynamic sources of flexible energy capacity that can help us close energy supply & demand gaps more quickly, securely, and affordably while reducing carbon emissions.
Our Approach
Blueprint Power helps building owners harness their buildings’ flexible energy capacity to generate new cash flows, reduce carbon emissions, and increase site resiliency. We do this by helping our customers identify and add flexible energy capacity in their buildings, optimize its use, and connect it to energy markets that pay for flexible capacity. This creates a win-win that supports resiliency of the electrical grid and helps building owners generate asset value and decrease emissions – all at the same time.
We provide real-time, granular energy usage data so our customers can align energy demand with supply and reduce energy constraints, costs, and carbon emissions
We use our markets and regulatory expertise to help customers optimize value from government incentives and grid programs as markets change
We look to scale the benefits of flexible energy capacity by evaluating, and potentially combining, multiple clean energy strategies: e.g. solar, battery storage, EV charging
We help customers evaluate & implement solutions to extend flexible capacity value & reduce carbon emissions by aggregating clean, onsite energy generation across multiple buildings
Our Story
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit New York, and the city lights went dark. It was a wake-up call—critical systems could fail, and the U.S. energy grid needed a dramatic upgrade. Utility companies, policymakers, and regulators made the commitment to modernize the grid and plan for resilience in the face of climate change, paving the way for buildings to play an important role in the ongoing energy transition.
Blueprint Power was born in 2018 in response to the energy regulatory transformation that emerged after Sandy and other extreme storms around the country. It was clear that grid-interactive buildings could provide needed services to the grid. Today, Blueprint Power is a bp company, and we’re helping building owners harness the flexible energy capacity within and across their buildings to support their own energy needs and the electrical grid.
How Our Work Helps
30%
Buildings consume 30% of global energy and generate 26% of global emissions (IEA)
2x
Analysis suggests that global electrical grid capacity must double to meet modern electricity demand at net zero emissions (BNEF)
+10%
Building owners can notably increase market asset value with a green building (USGBC)
The need to diversify energy sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions is driving the global energy transition. And demand for electricity is increasing at a much faster rate than electrical grid infrastructure can be built. Buildings can help solve both of these challenges by serving as decentralized, distributed energy resources (DERs) to the grid:
providing flexible energy capacity to the grid more quickly and less expensively than constructing grid infrastructure
bringing energy closer to where it is consumed to reduce waste
driving energy efficiency improvements within the large, energy-consuming building segment
generating carbon free power onsite (e.g. by installing solar, EV charging) that can reduce building, grid, and community-wide emissions