Sunnyvale, CA—November 3, 2011— Serious Energy, Inc., a leader in energy efficiency solutions that increase the value of buildings, today announced it has retained the Clean Energy practice group of Grubb & Ellis Company, a leading real estate services and investment firm, to identify opportunities with occupiers and owners across the U.S. interested in making energy efficiency upgrades to their buildings. Grubb & Ellis will introduce Serious Energy’s building upgrade service at zero cost to building owners.

Just give us your utility bill, says CEO Kevin Surace.

Sunnyvale, CA—November 3, 2011 — Serious Energy Inc., a leader in energy efficiency solutions that increase the value of buildings, today formally launched SeriousCapital, a service that cuts energy and maintenance costs and creates more comfortable and efficient properties for building owners and tenants – at zero upfront cost.

Energy efficiency, as you've no doubt heard, is the low-hanging fruit when it comes to operating expenses. Commercial buildings consume 18 percent of the energy in the U.S., according to the DOE, and roughly 30 percent of it gets wasted or consumed inefficiently, according to the EPA.

If a building owner has a $1 million energy bill and cuts it by 10 percent with no upfront costs, something you can do with building analytics tools like SeriousEnergy Manager and SeriousCapital, there's $100,000 in savings right there.

IDC Energy Insights, in a recent report on building management, has ranked Serious Energy as one of the "major players" in building energy analytics.

It seems strange that stores like Home Depot, Target and Lowe's try to attract homeowners with products that will reduce their bills and energy costs. Yet they are some of the draftiest, inefficient buildings around.

The Empire State Building was awarded LEED Gold Certification last week. SeriousGlass technology was used in the retrofitting of the building’s 6,514 dual pane windows. As reported by the Environmental Leader, the no-disruption retrofit glass system  iWindow is the same technology adapted and priced for wide-spread commercial use. (Check this space soon for another NYC historical landmark announcing a SeriousGlass window retrofit.)

Sunnyvale, CA – September 27, 2011 – Serious Energy today announced a technology partnership with U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), creators of the LEED green building program and LEED Online. Coined LEED Automation, the partnership enables users of LEED to easily sync up data and information with LEED Online, the software platform that manages the LEED green building certification process, and drive continuous improvement in their buildings.

Super-insulating SeriousWindows can help reduce energy bills in two ways. They can reduce heating and cooling loads by reducing the amount of heat that is conducted through the window, as well as the amount of heat that is leaked around the window (known as “infiltration").