BrightPhase Energy

BrightPhase Energy, located in Fletcher, North Carolina in the Asheville region, designs, manufactures and markets solar power plants specifically for commercial buildings.

Founder
Scott R. Frazier, Founder and CEO, is a former Senior Large Rocket Engineer with over 20 years of experience leading large design, engineering, and manufacturing teams on rocket programs for NASA contractors including Orbital Sciences and McDonnell Douglas.

Mr. Frazier also led a $100M large rocket booster effort for commercial launch vehicle company Beal Aerospace. Mr. Frazier was awarded NASA's prestigious Space Flight Awareness award and holds patents in the rocket and renewable energy industries.

Scott received his BS (with honors) in Aero & Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, and an MS in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1987.

History
BrightPhase Energy, Inc. is the result of technology and intellectual property rights acquired in 2006 from Solar Focus, Inc.

Mr. Frazier developed and deployed advanced solar cogeneration prototypes specifically for commercial building deployment named BiSolar. These deployments included a test bed installation at the BioSphere in Arizona. Solar Focus, Inc. supplied engineered solar cogeneration and tri-generation energy products to the large commercial building market segment. The stated product development philosophy focused on engineering existing off the shelf technologies into modules that have multiple energy outputs.

Commercialization
In April 2008, BrightPhase signed a letter of intent with Appalachian Energy for a 200 - 300 module beta test of Photensity. Photensity is a product that provides electricity, heat and daylighting in one module (tri-generation).

Investors
As of May 2008, BrightPhase has raised $1.7 million from seed, angel and strategic partners as well as from the CEO and founder. In April 2008 the company signed Sustainable World Capital to handle fundraising efforts.

This company is easily confused with utility scale concentrating solar energy startup BrightSource Energy and there is no business association or association by technology approach.

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