This following post details the challenge for Columbia Impact 2017. BlocPower is a proud sponsor and looks forward to seeing the great ideas generated by the teams. Good luck and have fun! Problem While performing energy audits on New York City buildings, BlocPower has learned a great deal about the environments in which people live and work. A huge issue we’ve discovered, outside of our energy efficiency work, is indoor air quality (IAQ). Humans spend most of their time inside, ...
Read More
In preparation for the fall heating season, BlocPower’s Community Retrofit NYC team has been all over Brooklyn this summer helping building owners and contractors prepare. The team canvassed weekly throughout East New York, Bed Stuy, and Bushwick meeting nearly 200 new building owners along the way. Whether installing a new boiler, upgrading a thermostat, or navigating the vast world of government incentive programs, the Community Retrofit team is eager to tackle the complex problems facing New York City’s building owners. ...
Read More
Join Community Retrofit NYC for a free training session on Thursday, August 10 from 9am-1pm on solutions and technologies for common energy efficiency retrofits. This training is open to general and specialized contractors servicing small and mid-sized multifamily buildings.
Read More
My journey started during the harsh winter of 2015, I was just dismissed from college and I felt trapped. However, that was just one new obstacle in my path. With no home, no job, and the pressures of college weighing on my mind, I was completely alone, fighting a battle without the proper equipment. Eventually, I was introduced to Green City Force, an AmeriCorps program that hires residents of the NYC Housing Authority, and was given a second chance to finally fix my broken life.
Read More
BlocMaps is finally in the hands of the New York City residents who need it most, and our customers are ready to save money on their building gas, heating oil, and electric bills. This week, the BlocPower team deployed BlocMaps in the field for a long-time resident of Brooklyn. With the power of our predictive energy consumption model at her fingertips, our customer was able to visualize her building’s performance and better understand her energy needs.
Read More
BlocPower is thrilled to be working with Intel to scale our technology and more rapidly help communities in cities across America. With the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor, we have been able to run hundreds of building engineering assessments at the neighborhood and city level– in the time it currently takes us to model one building.
Read More
Just like a love journey, the energy industry is full of exciting challenges. My journey began studying energy engineering. I saw many problems in the energy industry: climate change, underserved communities, and wasted resources. Over time I began to question how I would make this business more sustainable and pursued an MBA degree at Brandeis University. I then met BlocPower and settled down as an Investment Associate, where I help solve access to capital issues within the energy industry.
Read More
Where should innovators be focused on building the next generation of smart cities? NUMA New York and Civic Hall recently invited the community to “Smart Cities NYC Recap Event” at Civic Hall. Key leaders and stakeholders gathered to share perspectives, participate in interactive workshops and connect with each other- watch the livestream now!
Read More
Look for BlocPower at the Smart Cities NYC’17 conference this week. Don’t miss our CEO, Donnel Baird, on the “Power to the People” panel in Duggal I at 3:30pm on Thursday, May 4. And make sure to stop by and say hi to us at the Urbantech NYC booth inside the Duggal Greenhouse (10-11am on Thursday, May 4 and 12-1pm on Friday, May 5).
Read More
Heating oil fraud has cost taxpayers millions of dollars in New York City over the years. Instead of delivering full orders, heating oil businesses have repeatedly been found to steal oil from their customers. On Thursday, April 27 at the New Lab Urban Tech Hub Launch, BlocPower will debut our solution to protect building owners from losing money on heating oil they never receive.
Read More
