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The Skinny on Smart Meters: An Interview with Gib Armstrong, Director of Regulatory Affairs for BlueStar Energy Solutions

As an outcome of our evolving deregulated electricity market and quest for smart grid development, “smart meters” are being installed throughout Pennsylvania and the country...View Article

Alternative energy suppliers bridging the gap

When Illinois utilities were deregulated in 1997, the promise was high. Deregulation meant increased competition, which was bound to drive energy prices lower, and was sold to state decision-makers as a boon for everyone...View Article

BlueStar Aims to energize residential power market

For the first time since Illinois opened competition in the residential electricity market eight years ago, an alternative supplier has entered the Northern Illinois region...View Article

ComEd Increases Residential Electricity Rates By 19% for This Year and Next.
BlueStar Energy Offers Choice.

Chicago, IL – Today, BlueStar Energy, an energy solutions company, announced its entry into the Illinois residential marketplace with a groundbreaking new approach: offering customers not only a choice in who provides their electricity – but also - a choice in the type of power they wish to use. ...View Article

BlueStar Energy Adds Troy Hammond as President, Demand Side Management, and Jim Petersen as Vice President, Operations

BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. (“BlueStar”), a retail energy supplier providing electricity and energy efficiency services to industrial, commercial and residential customers in Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., is pleased to welcome Troy Hammond and Jim Petersen to the BlueStar team. ... View Article

New Competition for Utility Companies

FOX Business News — Bluestar Energy Services CEO Guy Morgan on the energy services company's rapid growth. View Video

BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. Granted Electric Generation Supplier License in PPL Service Territory

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission granted BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. an Electric Generation Supplier (“EGS”) License November 6, 2009 allowing BlueStar to provide electric service to large commercial and industrial customers in the PPL service territory beginning January 1, 2010. BlueStar will be ready to serve Pennsylvania customers in the PPL territory, which includes most of central Pennsylvania, once electric rate caps expire in 2010. Rate caps have kept electricity prices artificially low, preventing competitors such as BlueStar from entering the market. Pennsylvania consumers can expect increased market competition, and with it, greater choices and better values once these electric rate caps expire.

BlueStar Energy introduces lower electric bills for Illinois residential and small business customers

All-electronic Be Green. Save Green.™ program eliminates paper, protects natural resources and saves money
Illinois residential and small business customers now have a new choice when it comes to electricity providers – and the opportunity to save money on their monthly electric bills. For a limited time, BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. is offering qualified customers savings off their current electric utility rate when they enroll at www.bluestarenergy.com. BlueStar is an independent alternative retail electricity supplier and not affiliated with any utility. ... View Article

BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. Appoints Steven J. Strobel as Chief Financial Officer

BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. (“BlueStar”), a retail energy supplier providing electricity and related services to industrial, commercial and residential customers in Illinois, Maryland and Washington, D.C., today announced that Steven J. Strobel has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Utilizing his strong financial management skills and experience, Steve will lead BlueStar's financial organization and oversee the company's treasury, planning, accounting, reporting and other related activities. ... View Article

BlueStar Named Winner in SOA Case Study Competition by SOA Consortium and CIO Magazine

The goal of the SOA Case Study Competition was to highlight business success stories and lessons learned to provide proof points and insights for other organizations considering or pursuing SOA adoption. To qualify for the contest, the SOA project must have been completed with demonstrated business results. ... View Article

BlueStar ranked #1 in Crain's Fast 50

"BlueStar helps customers understand how their usage patterns vary and which products may help save energy costs. "Our IT systems provide a little more meaningful information than just simply an electric bill," co-founder and CEO Guy Morgan says. When electricity prices plummeted last summer, BlueStar encouraged many of its business customers to opt for billing agreements that reflected the wholesale market rates for power. When prices dropped further, BlueStar locked customers into longer-term, lower-priced contracts. The ability to take advantage of real-time market prices isn't an option for big utility customers, Mr. Morgan says. "That's why so many customers switch." ... View Article

BlueStar CTO Tom Keen named one of the best CTOs of 2009 by InfoWorld

"The InfoWorld CTO 25 awards honor those who triumph over significant challenges, using IT as their main vehicle to get results. The best CTOs use their technology savvy, management skills, and often force of will to achieve the right results. Almost always, all three attributes are needed. This year's crop of InfoWorld CTO 25 winners is no different in that regard from past winners, even if their specific challenges varied." ... View Article

BlueStar closes a new secured credit facility

BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. (“BlueStar”), a retail energy supplier providing electricity and related services to industrial, commercial and residential customers in Illinois, Maryland and Washington, D.C., today announced that it has closed a new secured credit facility. The new financing consists of a senior secured revolving line provided by RBS Citizens, NA (“RBS”) and a subordinated mezzanine loan provided by RBC Capital Partners, a division of the Royal Bank of Canada (“RBC”). While specific terms were not disclosed, BlueStar's founders and shareholders will retain 100% ownership of the company. Proceeds of the credit facility will be used to meet collateral requirements with wholesale counterparties and to fund BlueStar's continued growth. ... View Release

BlueStar IT practices featured in Computer World Magazine

"A shift to open source has been wildly successful for BlueStar Energy: Six-year-old BlueStar Energy Services, Inc. doesn't have the kind of systems-baggage that saddles many older organizations. Still, the Chicago-based company found itself hindered by the rigidity of its core systems, which constrained its efforts to expand its customer base and offer new services." ... View Article

BlueStar Founder and CEO Featured in Smart Business Chicago Magazine

"On a nuclear submarine, decisions come quickly, and it was in the intense environment of a U.S. Navy submarine that nuclear reactor operator Guy Morgan learned to make decisions under pressure. Now, as founder and CEO of BlueStar Energy Services Inc., Morgan's decisions have helped propel the retail electricity supplier to huge growth, from 2003 revenue of $1.5 million to 2007 revenue of $171 million. And he's not done yet. With the help of his 76 employees, he's anticipating 2008 revenue of about $200 million." ... View Article

BlueStar IT Platform Named One of the Top 10 IT Projects in North America by Info World Magazine

Info World Magazine named BlueStar's IT platform as a Top 10 Finalist in its annual Info World 100 Awards for 2008. View Article

BlueStar Chief Operating Officer Profiled in Crain's 2008 40 Under 40

Aaron Rasty, BlueStar Energy's Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, has been featured in Crain's 2008 40 Under 40. View Article

BlueStar Energy Ranked in INC. 5000

Inc. Magazine has ranked BlueStar Energy #13 in the Inc. 5000 Companies by Gross Dollars of Growth and the fastest growing energy supplier in the Inc. Top 100 Energy Companies. View Article

BlueStar Energy #2 Fastest Growing Company in Chicago

"When the Illinois Legislature deregulated electricity in 1997, it opened a huge market for companies like BlueStar, an alternative energy supplier that buys power wholesale and resells it to Illinois companies and homes, a service previously provided solely by Commonwealth Edison Co. and Ameren Corp." View Article | Watch Video

BlueStar Energy #2 Fastest Growing Company as ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine's Hot 100

"Soon, reducing energy consumption, maximizing customer savings, and helping businesses and residences improve the environment will be possible everywhere, with the fastest-growing electricity supplier in the nation." View PDF

BlueStar Energy: Feature article in Crain's 2008 list of Largest Privately Held Companies in Illinois

"BlueStar also advises customers on how to reduce energy use and retrofits lighting systems, a move that can reduce electricity bills by 5% to 20%. [BlueStar] also sells green energy generated by the sun, wind and moving water." View PDF

	BlueStar Energy Green Energy Choices BlueStar Energy is a Renewable Energy Certificates Marketer through Green-e Energy™, a program of the Center for Resource Solutions. Learn More
	BlueStar Energy joins the Chicago Climate Exchange As an Associate Member of the Chicago Climate Exchange, BlueStar Energy offers individuals, households and companies the ability to calculate and offset their carbon footprint. Learn More
	BlueStar Energy is a proud ENERGY STAR partner BlueStar Energy will help you to reduce the amount of energy consumed at your location and retrofit your lighting and other fixtures to increase your overall energy efficiency and lower your energy bills. Learn More
	BlueStar joins the U.S. Green Building Council The purpose of the USGBC is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.
	BlueStar is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Bluestar is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business verified by the Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE). The mission of the CVE is to improve the business climate for veterans, to minimize access barriers and to inform the public about the benefits of working with veteran-owned small businesses.
	BlueStar Energy an Accredited Business with the Better Business Bureau The purpose of the BBB is to promote an ethical marketplace. The BBB develops and issues reports on businesses and nonprofit organizations and encourages consumers to check out companies before transacting business with them. Click the logo to the left to verify BBB accreditation and to see a BBB report

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