Bridge Energy Services, LLC222 Pitkin Street, Suite 108, East Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Bridge Energy Services, LLC is a leading energy management and consulting firm.  By using Bridges unique portfolio management approach, clients can make their operations more sustainable, diversified, and cost effective through energy procurement strategies, utility budgeting services, and onsite energy development and feasibility projects.  Our goal is to help our clients manage their operations and procurement to get the best results from their energy assets.

• Bridge fills the role of energy procurement specialist

• Energy Consulting Firm, with main offices located at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology building, 222 Pitkin St., East Hartford, CT and a second location in Woburn, Mass.

• Committed to promoting Northeast energy initiatives, job growth, and economic benefit in support of our institutional and municipal clients

• Managed “portfolio” buying approach: committed to “coordinated” commodity acquisition, combining market-timing with “real-time” pricing, and making allowances for efficiency measures and sustainability

• Provides “flexibility” in the buying process

• Provides expert contract language evaluation to minimize risk

History

Bridge Energy Services, LLC (Bridge), founded in 2002 by Michael Sassi, is the leading, independent, full service energy procurement and commodity consulting firm based in Greater Hartford at The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology building and in Woburn, Massachusetts in the Patriot Community Bank building. We are dedicated to serving the regions finest institutions since 2002. Bridge enjoys an exemplary reputation focusing on year over year cost reduction, achieving budget certainty, and saving millions of dollars on their behalf. In total, Bridge serves over 100 organizations representing: Government, Healthcare, Higher Education, Manufacturing, and Non-Profit Organizations.  Total electricity under management is over 600,000 mWh. Total Natural Gas under management is approx. 2 Bcf.

Our Philosophy

The success of Bridge is the result of more than 30+ years of utility, regulatory and deregulation experience, a strong commitment to the region and our “serve first” philosophy, working as a seamless extension of each clients energy team. We dont just set a price and forget about it. We work continually with our clients to create a unique pricing strategy that works for them. We use the markets to dictate our decision making and identify great opportunities for our customers. Bridges team works on behalf of clients to ensure their energy program goals are met by demanding the highest level of service and satisfaction from their utility companies and suppliers, while helping to evaluate the multitude of energy consultants, suppliers, and vendors.   â€‹With our unique utility, financial, and regulatory background, we streamline and facilitate the energy buying experience.  We maintain strong relationships with key constituents: government, public utilities, the suppliers of power and natural gas, and site development resources.

Energy Procurement

Bridge acts as the coordinator to assist you through the entire commodity procurement process.  We simplify the process by helping you sort through important information in an effective and efficient manner. Our energy procurement services addresses the following energy products: (1) electricity; (2) natural gas; (3) oil; and (4) propane.     Through our commodity acquisition management approach, we can provide customized contracts designed to favorably hedge your firms position in the market.  In addition, we can assist you by reviewing and analyzing existing contracts for all utilities to identify opportunities for future improvement. We have created relationships with all preferred large and boutique energy suppliers and analyze all of them to ensure that they are the right fit for you.  ​  Similar to a financial portfolios assets, it is important to establish goals and targets, identify energy asset nuances, and determine risk tolerances.  This will help determine: pricing products, data services, duration, contract language, operations, billing, among other customized solutions

New innovations with Combined Heat and Power and Fuel Cell systems provide many benefits aside from efficiency and cost savings:

• Reliability

• Grid Independance

• Capture Grants & Incentives

• Carbon Footprint Reduction

• Market Arbitrage

Renewable Energy Solutions

With the growing support for environmental responsibility and accountability, Bridge can help execute your plan to meet sustainability goals and objectives. Sustainability is different for every organization, but Bridge has a plan for everyone.     Bridge is familiar with requirements from the federal, ISO, state, and local levels.  We will help validate and establish current baselines and provide avenues for achieving sustainability goals.  We use combinations of data, real-time monitoring, and analytical tools to help you with your sustainability plan. 

Services include:

• Master planning and commodity acquisition integration

• Initial feasibility survey

• Grants & incentives navigation

• Detailed project financial study

• Sale or purchase of RECs

• Power Purchase Agreements negotiation

• Onsite development

• Stakeholder project presentations