Meet Our Newest Members

Achieve Renewable Energy, LLC
Salem, MA

Achieve Geothermal is a full-service geothermal company, and is the only design and installation company in New England with staff certified by IGSHPA as both Certified Geoexchange Designer and Certified Geothermal Inspector. 

Georgia Institute of Technology 
Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech’s Infrastructure and & Sustainability (I&S) team is comprised of more than 650 dedicated professionals throughout 17 departments.

AG Engineering and Power Contracting LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

AG Engineering and Power Contracting (AGEPC) is a specialized building services company specializing in delivering Data Centers & District Cooling Plants (as Turnkey, EPC, Design & Build and all types of Construction contracts) and EHV Substations.

Grundfos Holdings A/S
Bjerringbro, Denmark

Grundfos is a global leader in advance pump solutions and water technologies, committed to pioneering sustainability to solve the world's water and climate challenges.

Apex Water + Process
St. Michael, MN

With a strong presence in universities, cities, hospitals, and independent energy networks, Apex delivers smart, sustainable water and energy solutions for district heating and cooling systems.

Illinois Institute of Technology 
Chicago, IL

Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) is a private, technology-focused research university in Chicago, IL offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, architecture, business, design, human sciences, computing, and law.

Borer Energy Engineering, LLC
Pennington, NJ

Led by former Princeton University Energy Plant Director Ted Borer, Borer Energy Engineering, LLC is a consulting firm offering strategic carbon-reduction guidance and energy system training to institutions, other community-scale energy users, and the companies which serve them. 

Keeley Construction
New Braunfels, TX

Keeley Construction is a customer-centric partner providing Innovative solutions. 

Boston University
Boston, MA

Founded in 1839, Boston University is a private research university with nearly 38,000 students and more than 4,000 faculty members. 

kW Engineering LLC
Oakland, CA

kW Engineering, founded in 1998 in Oakland, California is an independent energy consulting firm that delivers well-engineered, energy efficiency solutions to lower operating costs, optimize building operations and achieve carbon reduction goals in commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings. 

Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME

Founded in 1794, Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, ME which  serves almost 2,000 students

Kyotherm
Paris, France

Kyotherm is an Energy-as-a-Service company and energy producer dedicated to renewable thermal and energy efficiency projects, includeing solar thermal, biomass, deep geothermal and geoexchange systems, storage, waste heat recovery as well as district heating networks and installations allowing reduced energy consumption.

Brailsford & Dunlavey
Washington, D.C.

Listed among Engineering News-Record’s “Top 50 Program Management Firms,” Brailsford & Dunlavey is a national program management and strategic advisory firm with a leading Infrastructure, Energy, & Sustainability practice group.

Metro Water Recovery 
Denver, CO

Formed under Colorado law in 1961, Metro Water Recovery is the largest water and resource recovery agency in the Rocky Mountain West, serving approximately 2.2 million people in an 817-square-mile area.

Calgary District Heating 
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary District Heating supplies thermal energy for space heating and domestic hot water to connected buildings, including in Calgary’s East Village and Downtown core, from our central plant and distributes this energy through a network of underground, insulated pipes.

Nupi Americas
Early Branch, SC

Nupi Americas is the North American subsidiary of Nupi Industrie Italiane, a world leader and innovator in thermoplastic piping systems.

Capture H2O
Solana Beach, CA

Capture H2O develops and deploys cooling water conservation projects for large facilities.

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P1 Consulting
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

P1 Consulting is a women-owned small business (WBE certified) specializing in infrastructure projects, public private partnerships, energy, sustainability, and decarbonization. 

Carleton College
Northfield, MN

In 2020, Carleton College finished the transition of their district energy system from steam to low temp hot water. The LTHW system is primarily heated using a geoexchange and heat pump system, and has supplemental high efficiency natural gas boilers when necessary.

Preston Phipps 
Saint-Laurent, QC 

Founded in 1933, Preston Phipps has gained the reputation of being a trusted partner in the institutional and industrial thermal and HVAC markets across North America by providing specialized equipment, custom engineered skid packages, tailored design assistance, and reliable service.

Catalyst Commissioning Group
Bethlehem, PA

Catalyst Commissioning Group specializes in commissioning services across diverse energy systems, with expertise in microgrids and district thermal networks, as well as services include owner representation, QA/QC, energy audit, retro-commissioning, lab recertification, plant optimization, and specialized commissioning for the sophisticated energy systems that IDEA's 2,500+ global members develop and operate.

SmithGroup
San Francisco, CA

SmithGroup is the nation's oldest architecture and engineering firm whose infrastructure team specializes in climate-resilient solutions, particularly 4th and 5th generation district energy systems. 

Caterpillar
Larne, Northern Ireland

Caterpillar supports the district energy industry with innovative power solutions that include gas generator sets as well as integrated combined heat and power (CHP) solutions delivering best-in-class energy efficiency and return on investment.

Steady Energy Oy
Espoo, Finland

Steady Energy designs and enables the construction and operation of compact, advanced nuclear heating plants for district heating, campus energy, desalination plants, and industrial manufacturing. 

CenterPoint Energy
Minneapolis, MN

Headquartered in Houston, TX, CenterPoint Energy is a domestic energy delivery company that includes electric transmission & distribution, natural gas distribution, and energy services operations. Through Minnesota’s Natural Gas Innovation Act, CenterPoint is developing a geothermal district energy system and providing financial support for other district energy projects in the state.

The City and County of Denver
Denver, CO

Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency (CASR) is eliminating pollution and waste while investing in clean energy and resiliency to protect all Denverites for future generations by partnering with communities to reduce pollution and create ways to adapt and thrive in the face of a changing environment, using human-centered design as our guiding principle, and directly engaging with the community to learn how we can remove barriers that can get in the way of a higher quality of life. 

City of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 census, it is the state's most populous city.

ThermaCity Energy Group
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ThermaStor Solutions is a Toronto based Engineering Solutions provider, specializing in Geothermal, and Underground Thermal Energy Storage (UTES) design.

Colusa Indian Energy
Colusa, CA

Colusa Indian Energy is a Tribal corporation owned wholly by the Colusa Indian Community in Northern California, and is the only Tribal owned microgrid developer in the United States.

Tri-Merit
Schaumburg, IL

Tri-Merit partners with small to midsize business owners, CPAs, and CFOs to reduce tax burdens and boost cash flow through specialized tax credits and strategies.

Data Systems Analyst, Inc.
Feasterville-Trevose, PA 

Data Systems Analyst (DSA) is an employee-owned company which safeguards mission-critical systems around the world, including a real-time, 360-degree view of your critical infrastructure.

Universal Orlando Resort
Orlando, FL

Universal Orlando Resort is a 1,291-acre theme park and entertainment resort complex in Orlando, FL.

Diamond Engineering Services 
Austin, TX

Diamond Engineering Services is an independently owned energy consulting firm with over 20 years of experience in district cooling systems, including feasibility and conceptual planning of district systems, cost estimating, business continuity, rate development and operations.

University of Albany
Albany, NY

Founded in 1844, the State University of New York at Albany (commonly referred to as the University at Albany, U. Albany, or SUNY Albany) is a public research university in Albany, New York.

Efficiency Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Efficiency Manitoba is Manitoba’s Crown corporation dedicated to energy efficiency. With a mandate to achieve long-term energy savings targets, we’ve developed a suite of offers to help homes, businesses, and communities reduce their electricity and natural gas consumption. 

Wabash Power Equipment Co
Wheeling, IL

Wabash Power is a leading supplier of mobile rental boilers, including industrial steam boilers ranging in capacity from 20,000 #/hr to 250,000 #/hr of high pressure saturated or superheated steam. 

Emergent Urban Concepts
Sleepy Hollow, NY

Emergent Urban Concepts is an energy, sustainability, and development advisory firm focused on delivering its clients best practices across varied disciplines to accelerate projects and market transformation.

Wendel Companies
Williamsville, NY

Wendel is an architecture, engineering, energy efficiency, and construction management firm that develops creative solutions to complex energy problems, including designing, building, optimizing, and retrofitting district energy plants and provide efficient thermal and electrical energy solutions.

Energy Strategies
Salt Lake City, UT

Energy Strategies is an independent consulting firm founded in 1986, specializing in energy markets, carbon policy, and infrastructure economics.

VITO NV
Antwerpen, Belgium

As a top European research centre, VITO converts scientific insights into groundbreaking technological innovations, AI solutions and policy advice.

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Needham, MA

Located in Needham, Massachusetts, the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering is a private college focused on engineering, offering degrees in electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, and engineering. 

XIR Group
Austin, TX

XIR Group LLC is an independent consultancy that provides strategic advisory services to global clients in the oil and gas, power, industrial, facilities, utilities, and infrastructure sectors.

Gaumer Process
Houston, TX

Gaumer Process is an electric heater manufacturer leading the industry in engineering, design and manufacture of electric heaters, control panels, fuel gas conditioning, liquid fuel conditioning, pressure reduction, metering, pumping and other engineered systems.