NRG announced a channel partnership with Lucid, an Oakland-based company offering cloud-based building management services, with an eye toward selling more renewables services to commercial clients. Lucid’s BuildingOS platform aggregates real-time data about energy use across portfolios of buildings, allowing customers to see if they could save money by installing renewable-energy or energy-efficiency services. NRG will bring its own suite of office buildings across the US onto the BuildingOS platform, and by the end of 2015 intends to see it in use at 2,500 buildings owned by existing NRG clients.