The Stone House Group and Cloudshadow Energy have partnered to combine energy management expertise with a unified data intelligence platform, giving institutional and commercial clients proactive market monitoring, automated bill oversight, and optimized pricing strategies for their energy portfolios.
Comprehensive energy strategies are a critical component of day-to-day facilities operations, ensuring long-term financial stability through rigorous risk mitigation. The most successful of these strategies follow a dual-priority approach: buying energy at a lower cost, then controlling it through strategic scheduling, demand management, and equipment selection.
SHG practices this approach as part of our Building Stewardship philosophy, and Cloudshadow shares the same perspective. Cloudshadow is an energy management and procurement company with extensive advisory experience in deregulated electric and natural gas markets, such as those in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, among others. We are pleased to announce we have partnered with Cloudshadow to enhance energy management and procurement services for our clients.
The SHG partnership with Cloudshadow integrates Cloudshadow's Intelligence Engine™ directly into both aspects of our dual-priority energy strategy. By combining deep market expertise with modern intelligence tools, Cloudshadow delivers significant value to our clients through proactive market monitoring, and tailored monthly intelligence and performance reports. This data-driven approach ensures that our procurement strategies remain highly attuned to each client's unique needs and operational goals, empowering you to make informed, strategic decisions in a dynamic energy landscape. If your campus operates in a deregulated market, this approach is designed to translate directly into measurable cost avoidance and more defensible budget planning.
In a deregulated energy market, the retail supply of electricity and/or natural gas is separated from the delivery infrastructure. Customers in these markets can choose their energy supplier and compare plans for the best possible rates rather than being limited to a single local utility. As of September 2026, deregulated markets exist in the following states/districts: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington D.C.
With many options to choose from, having a robust dataset to inform procurement decisions is vital. Cloudshadow’s advanced analytics allow us to more deeply assess current energy usage and contracts to understand organizational needs and goals. With this information and a thorough evaluation of market conditions, we can determine the most strategic sourcing approach. We then broker an energy services agreement at more favorable rates. Afterward, we continuously monitor market changes for new opportunities, oversee renewals, and support supplier relations.
Facilities teams often discover billing errors, usage spikes, or budget overruns only after they have already cost money, since these issues typically surface during a periodic audit rather than in real time. Cloudshadow's energy management platform identifies portfolio-wide risks, trends, and opportunities in one continuously updated dashboard, so discrepancies can be addressed before they become problems and management decisions can be based on current information. Key features include:
Our expertise in engineering and facilities management allows us to interpret energy management data through a technical lens, ensuring that flagged usage anomalies and consumption trends are evaluated against equipment conditions, occupancy patterns, and building operations. This is the same evidence-based standard we apply across SHG's Building Stewardship work in Sustainability and Building Commissioning.
If your organization is ready to bring greater visibility and precision to its energy portfolio, contact The Stone House Group to schedule an energy strategy review.
