Meet Our Newest Members

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Welcome New Members!

IDEA is pleased to welcome our newest members, now joining the ranks of more than 450 member organizations and nearly 3000 individual members around the globe.

If you are interested in adding your name to the list, please contact Scott Szycher at scott.idea@districtenergy.org or visit the Membership Benefits page for a list of member benefits.

IDEA Membership Benefits

   

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

Midwest Geothermal 
Grand Rapids, MI

Midwest Geothermal is an IGSHPA certified installer and drilling contractor for commercial and residential heating and cooling systems, specializing in installing an “earth battery” for use as a geo-exchange storage solution for single family homes, commercial buildings, multi-building campuses, and district energy systems.

Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME

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

Nicklaus Engineering
Yuma, AZ

Nicklaus Engineering is a DBE Certified and EDWOSB multi-disciplinary, multi-million dollar corporation with professional and technical personnel in the divisions of architecture, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, and surveying.

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.

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.

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.

Oregon State University 
Corvallis, OR

Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university based in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees through all 11 colleges.

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.

Prezerv Technologies, Inc 
Medford, MA

Prezerv™ is the next generation data and analytics platform, delivering AI-powered 3D mapping and inspection solutions to a wide range of public and private sector entities that design, build, operate and/or manage infrastructure.

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.

RB Somerville Co. Ltd. 
King City, Ontario, Canada

RB Somerville Co. Ltd. has self-performed civil and mechanical construction on 17 distribution piping systems for large utility companies, and self-performs welding structural and pressure piping, including pre-insulated steel pipe, having worked with a diverse list of systems/brands including Logstor, Isoplus, Brugg, HDPE – Pert Pipe (Hot Water), HDPE (Cold Water), Standard Wall Steel (Schedule 40 Cold Water).

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.

Russell NDE Systems
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Russell NDE Systems Inc. designs, manufactures and sells instruments for the non-destructive testing of materials, especially tubes, pipes, tanks and pipelines, as well as chiller tube inspections, leak detection, ground-penetrating radar, and ultrasonic corrosion surveys.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gradyent B.V.
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Gradyent enables district heating companies to optimise, decarbonise, and grow their grids through our real-time Digital Twin Platform, combining geographical, weather, and sensor data with physics-based models and AI.

Universal Orlando Resort
Orlando, FL

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

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.

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.

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.

University of Washington Facilities Project Delivery Group
Seattle, WA

The Project Delivery Group (PDG) is responsible for the delivery of capital projects that help fulfill the University’s teaching, research, health care and innovation mission.

Haley & Aldrich
Burlington, MA

Haley & Aldrich’s nationwide team of environmental and geotechnical engineering consultants build on a heritage of acting on the specific needs of our clients through advocacy, technical excellence, and innovation.

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. 

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.

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.

KCL Engineering 
West Des Moines, IA

KCL Engineering is a forward-thinking consulting firm offering a wide range of engineering solutions, including building energy & performance services, district energy, central plant and distribution services and mechanical, electrical/controls and technology engineering. 

VITO NV
Antwerpen, Belgium

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

Keeley Construction
New Braunfels, TX

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

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.