E126: How Budderfly Turns Wasted Energy into a Win-Win-Win

E126: How Budderfly Turns Wasted Energy into a Win-Win-Win

From Everybody in the Pool by Molly Wood

March 12, 2026 · 33 min · Episode 126

About this episode

Molly Wood interviews Al Subbloie about Budderfly's innovative approach to reducing energy waste for businesses.

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. 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. On this episode of Everybody in the Pool , Molly sits down with Budderfly’s founder and CEO Al Subbloie to get a behind-the-scenes look into this unique business model. We talk about: Why Budderfly targets franchise businesses, and how their "copy-paste" model unlocks financing and scale The four pillars of commercial energy waste: HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, and intelligent energy management How Budderfly can lower a companies’ utility bill and upgrade their equipment with zero upfront cost to the customer Why Al intentionally aligned cost savings with carbon reduction — so customers get climate…

People in this episode

Host: Molly Wood

Guest: Al Subbloie

Topics covered

  • energy efficiency
  • business model
  • sustainability
  • cost savings
  • energy management

Keywords

  • energy waste
  • ROI
  • franchise businesses
  • utility bills
  • carbon reduction

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Budderfly

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