<p>American businesses waste 25-35% of the energy they use. So why aren’t more business owners doing something about it? For most, the problem is too complex and too expensive — there’s no single fix, there are 30 or 40, and calculating the ROI on all of them is no easy task.</p><br><p>That’s where Budderfly comes in. Budderfly is an energy-as-a-service company with a beautifully simple premise: they take over a business’s energy bill entirely — funding all the upgrades at their own risk, and pocketing a margin on the savings. It’s a win-win-win situation for the company, the grid, and the planet.</p><br><p>On this episode of <em>Everybody in the Pool</em>, Molly sits down with Budderfly’s founder and CEO Al Subbloie to get a behind-the-scenes look into this unique business model.</p><p><br></p><h3>We talk about:</h3><ul><li>Why Budderfly targets franchise businesses, and how their "copy-paste" model unlocks financing and scale</li><li>The four pillars of commercial energy waste: HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, and intelligent energy management</li><li>How Budderfly can lower a companies’ utility bill and upgrade their equipment with zero upfront cost to the customer</li><li>Why Al intentionally aligned cost savings with carbon reduction — so customers get climate impact whether it's their priority or not</li><li>What a virtual power plant actually is, and why focusing on small “behind-the-meter” energy adjustments actually matters for the grid</li><li>How Budderfly is building one of the largest distributed demand-response networks in the US — and why that's increasingly valuable in an era of AI data center demand</li><li>Their vision for working directly with hyperscalers and utilities as grid pressure intensifies</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Links:</h3><ul><li>Budderfly: <a href="https://www.budderfly.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.budderfly.com/</a></li><li>All episodes: <a href="https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/</a></li><li>Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: <a href="https://www.mollywood.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mollywood.co/</a></li><li>Become a member for the ad-free version of the show: <a href="https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/</a></li></ul><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>