Meet Our Newest Members

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Welcome New Members!

IDEA is pleased to welcome our newest members who joined our ranks for the 2025 calendar year. We are pleased to now welcome 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

   

AEP-Thermal Inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

For over four decades, AEP Thermal has been a pioneer in the High Voltage Electrode Boiler industry, delivering more than 4 GW of cutting-edge heating solutions worldwide.

National Grid
Waltham, MA

National Grid’s vision is to fully eliminate fossil fuels from our US gas and electric systems, enabling the customers and communities we serve to meet their heating needs without using fossil fuels by 2050, if not sooner.

Badger Meter
Milwaukee, WI

Badger Meter is a water technology leader, serving municipal, commercial and industrial customers worldwide. We’ve redefined smart water management with BlueEdge™, a customizable suite of products, software and services. 

New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC)
New York City, NY

New York City Economic Development Corporation is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization that works for a vibrant, inclusive, and globally competitive economy for all New Yorkers.

City of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo is a city in Ontario with a population of just over 121,000 residents, known for its strong knowledge and service-based economy with significant insurance and high-tech sectors, as well as two universities: the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. The city is part of Canada's Technology Triangle (CTT), a joint economic development initiative of Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge and the Region of Waterloo.

OBR Cooling Towers
Northwood, OH

OBR Cooling Towers provides a comprehensive range of services to ensure your cooling systems operate at peak performance, including routine inspections, new installations, repairs, and high-quality replacement parts.

Darcy Solutions
New Brighton, MN

Darcy Solutions is on a mission to build Geothermal Everywhere. The company designs and constructs geothermal systems of all kinds including dipole wells, pump and reinject, thermal energy networks, and more.

Panametrics
Billerica, MA

Panametrics develops solutions for moisture, oxygen, liquid flow, and gas flow measurement, with proven technologies that are known across many industries, including district energy.

Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

For 25 years, FCM’s Green Municipal Fund (GMF) has helped Canadian municipalities, big and small, invest in their future. Municipalities of all sizes can access GMF funding for business case studies, feasibility studies, and capital projects, and GMF helps communities explore and implement clean energy solutions that work best for them, replacing high-emission systems with reliable, affordable, and sustainable alternatives that benefit everyone.

Renteknik Group Inc.
Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Renteknik Group's energy management team will track your energy usage and create an energy management plan that is best suited to reduce costs and protect your assets. Through our real-time continual monitoring, we will ensure ongoing savings and seamless operations to keep you positioned ahead of your competition.

Geosyntec Consultants
Seattle, WA

Geosyntec is a consulting and engineering firm that works with private and public sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, energy, and civil infrastructure.

Ring & DuChateau Consulting Engineers
Brookfield, WI

Ring & DuChateau is a team of 100 engineers, designers, technicians and support staff dedicated to MEPT design quality and innovation. 

Google
Mountain View, CA

Google is a hyperscale data center operator committed to operating in a sustainable manner. Google offers waste heat from its data centers for offsite use by 3rd parties for district heating of residential, commercial, and industrial end users.

SELEST Solutions
Columbus, OH

SELEST Solutions brings in 30 years of hands-on experience in developing, negotiating, implementing, operating, and maintaining energy infrastructure projects working seamlessly with your teams at all levels of the organization.

Imeg
Rock Island, IL

IMEG is employee-owned, with 3,000+ team members across 100+ locations, including 650+ licensed engineers. Ranked a Top 5 U.S. engineering firm (BD+C) and #48 on ENR’s Top 500, we provide full-service expertise in building design, infrastructure, energy solutions, consulting, urban planning, and process engineering.

University of Richmond
Richmond, VA

The University of Richmond is a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It is a primarily undergraduate, residential institution with approximately 3,900 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools.

Imperium Technologies, Inc.
Round Rock, TX

Imperium Technologies offers the first fully integrated, electro-mechanical steam trap and real-time steam system intelligence platform built to eliminate waste, reduce emissions, and make steam system issues visible, actionable, and manageable.  

Urban Ingenuity
Kensington, MD

Urban Ingenuity provides innovative solutions to develop and finance advanced energy projects, building retrofits, and state of the art clean energy infrastructure.

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Maryland Clean Energy Center
College Park, MD

The Maryland Clean Energy Center advances a clean energy future by making affordable, accessible technologies available to all Marylanders. Through innovative financing, climate tech innovation, and project development support, we empower communities, foster business growth, and create jobs.

Ulaanbaatar District Heating Company SOE
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Established for Ulaanbaatar on September 9, 1959, the district heating system of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia provides the heating to the city of Ulaanbaatar, especially during winter months of the country.

Metropolitan Community College
Omaha, NE

Metropolitan Community College (MCC), accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, is a comprehensive, public community college that offers affordable, quality education to all residents of Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties. 

Walker Blue
Boca Raton, FL

Walker Blue is a national energy engineering and tax incentive firm helping ESCOs, public agencies, affordable housing authorities, MEP and A&E firms, tax equity investors, CPAs, and project owners identify, document, and maximize federal incentives for clean energy and energy-efficiency projects.

Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT

Founded in 1800, Middlebury is an undergraduate college; a graduate school for international studies; a home for immersive language study; a graduate school for the study of literature, literacy, and pedagogy; a leader of schools abroad sites that span the globe; and a home for the oldest and most prestigious writers’ conference in the world, which has spawned conferences in environmental writing and translation as well.

WR Community Energy
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

WR Community Energy is an innovative partnership between the Region of Waterloo, its three urban municipalities, and locally owned utilities, created to lead the implementation of Waterloo Region’s Community Energy Investment Strategy and to steward  the energy transition in our community.