Our Company

About Us

BrightLeaf Energy, LLC is a small Colorado-based business providing energy and mechanical engineering consulting services to building owners and managers, project design teams, and consultants and contractors for new and existing commercial and industrial facilities.

Meet the Owner

Christopher Morales is an industry expert with more than 17 years of experience providing commercial and industrial building owners, architects, general contractors, energy service companies (ESCOs), and Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) companies with various mechanical and energy engineering consulting services including:

  • Commercial and Industrial Building Energy Audits and Assessments

  • Building Decarbonization Feasibility Studies and Concept Design

  • Energy and infrastructure project financial modeling and life cycle cost analysis (LCCA)

  • LEED® and Code Compliance Energy Modeling

  • New Construction Commissioning (Cx)

  • Retrocommissioning (RCx) and Monitoring-based Commissioning (MBCx)

Christopher is a licensed Professional Engineer in Colorado, New York, and Tennessee, a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), and a LEED AP with specialty in Operations & Maintenance (LEED AP O+M).

Christopher is also a provisional member of the following ASHRAE Technical Committees: 


  • TC 4.07 - Energy Calculations

  • TC 7.06 - Building Energy Performance

  • TC 9.06 - Healthcare Facilities