By navigating the complexities of energy use, we’re helping building owners create value while cutting costs and carbon.
We’re not consultants. We don’t sell equipment, software or dashboards. We’re an actively managed energy service, engineering a sophisticated mix of proprietary software and strategies to unlock the hidden returns in your existing equipment and deliver a dependable source of ongoing revenue.
Create Value
Everyone says they’ll save you money, but we’ll quantify your returns and deliver greater building value with no upfront costs.
Earn Revenue
Implementing solutions with the biggest financial gains, we continuously monitor and act to ensure ongoing, guaranteed revenue.
Erase Emissions
We’ve created a clear path to net-zero emissions through quantifiable reductions in carbon emissions and allowances.
A Duo of Services to Optimize Any Building.
Our proprietary technology enables our engineers to continuously deliver hidden returns, cut costs and create a new source of revenue for building owners through two service types:
Central Systems
For buildings with central HVAC systems, we use advanced optimization strategies to cut energy use by 20% – 30% and deliver 40% – 60% ROI
Energy Efficiency + Solar
For buildings with available roof space, we combine energy efficiency strategies with solar installations to potentially eliminate utility bills and deliver 30% – 50% ROI
How We Hire
Hiring great teammates is the single most important thing Carbon Lighthouse does. Period. When done intelligently, hiring is a science, not an art.
How to Heat an Office – The Thermodynamic Secrets
How do you heat a private office or any room for that matter? The challenge lies in the difference between two concepts: energy and temperature.
Sensible and Sensibilities: Different types of heat and why they matter
There are two fundamental concepts related to how much energy cooling systems must use: sensible heat and latent heat. So which type of heat, sensible or latent, requires more energy to remove?
The Difference Between Energy (kWh) and Power (kW)
Electricity costs for most commercial buildings are based both on the maximum power and the total amount of energy you use. Power and energy are different concepts, with very different costs, yet financiers, journalists, and pretty much everyone struggles to differentiate them.
Achieving Carbon Neutrality: Allowances
There is another way to achieve carbon neutrality that is little know about in business circles but well regarded in the energy and environmental community. They care called carbon allowances. Like Renewable Energy Certificates, carbon allowances have as a strong suit that they are verifiable. They are also limited in number, and cleared through the government and therefore much less susceptible to fraud.
Why Thermodynamics Matters for Buildings
Using the principles of thermodynamics, we can keep people comfortable in a building while using energy in smarter ways. Thermodynamics teaches us numerous tradeoffs and rules that allow us to get the right temperature in the right place at the right time for the least amount of energy.
The Carbon Lighthouse Mission
Because stopping climate change will only happen if we can make it easy and profitable, together we are engineering new ways to erase the 20% of global emissions from non-residential buildings.
