As February is Black History Month, MEEA is celebrating some of the Black-owned businesses that are a part of our membership. These organizations not only add to the depth and diversity of MEEA’s network, but are also driving innovative change the Midwest energy efficiency industry and beyond. Read about the brilliant work they do!
Building Scientists, HVAC U, LLC
Building Scientists, HVAC U LLC. is a licensed post-secondary training organization specializing in skilled trade training. They design and implement workforce development, job training, and apprenticeship programs for utility, specialty trade contractors, and implementation contract companies. They also provide technical training courses for individuals and corporations in the energy efficiency business sector.
EcoHealth Strategies
EcoHealth Strategies is a Chicago-based climate consultancy that designs and promotes the successful delivery of climate, resilience, and energy solutions for communities across the United States and beyond. They offer strategic program evaluation, community engagement, policy consulting, and facilitation services to their partners. They partner with utilities, nonprofits, and municipalities to ensure that their climate solutions goals are achieved, and center affected populations. Their work equitably deploys climate solutions including clean technologies, energy efficiency, emissions reduction, workforce development, and others.
Encolor
Encolor is committed to empowering clients through strategic education and facilitation. Their expertise spans multiple disciplines to ensure they are their client's partner in people-centered research and strategy. They can help transform client organizations through workshops, impact measurement, evaluation, inclusive consulting, program design, community engagement, intercultural development inventory administration, program theory, and logic modeling.
Energy Infrastructure Partners, LLC
Energy Infrastructure Partners, LLC (EIP) is an implementation consultant which provides consulting services to electric and gas utilities, public sector institutions, and commercial clients, in addition to engineering expertise for the energy and sustainability needs of our clients. Thier team provides program design, management and outreach for next-generation energy efficiency programs, customer outreach in the C&I, public sector and affordable housing verticals and highly skilled labor across these market sectors. EIP also provides strategic advisory around clean energy, decarbonization, electrical vehicles, workforce development, environmental justice and economic development.
The JPI Group
The JPI Group helps ambitious organizations reimagine innovative pipeline strategies designed to drive success alongside client business and community goals. They are a team of talent solutions and workforce planning experts who believe in the powerful combination of technology and people to help drive client business success. They promise to provide best practices in this competitive job market while working alongside client internal resources aligning to their mission.
Shelton Solutions
Based in Chicagoland, Shelton Solutions is a growing, certified minority- and woman-owned energy consultancy serving the public, private and utility sectors with robust deliverables, individual focus and unwavering integrity. They provide comprehensive energy program support, community outreach, project management, data/budget preparation and tracking, utility bill validation, energy audits, and more. This year, they happily celebrate 20 years in business.
SEEL, LLC
SEEL, LLC is one of the largest national certified minority business enterprise, service-disabled, veteran-owned energy efficiency program implementation firms in the nation. SEEL provides energy efficiency education and energy saving consultations, building residential walkthroughs and energy audits, direct installation of energy saving products, appliance recycling, incentive check processing, and management of trade ally networks among other services suited to fit their client needs.
Also a BPI Test Center, SEEL has served single family households, multifamily dwellings and small businesses on behalf of its utility customers. The company is a market leader in engaging hard-to-reach and income qualified customers, a much-needed service as this sector has the highest energy burden from utility bills. Since 2009, SEEL has been recognized for its work within the communities they serve. SEEL has been repeatedly named the Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council Supplier of the Year.
Walker-Miller Energy Services
Walker-Miller Energy Services is a Detroit-based energy waste reduction company promoting innovative and cost-effective strategies to achieve energy efficiency. Their energy efficiency services and products improve infrastructure while also promoting energy education and best practices for all utility customers. They are a client-focused company that leverages their significant experience and knowledge on behalf of their customers. They serve a wide variety of constituencies – from home-owners to manufacturers - to large-scale utility companies. Their management team consists of former energy industry managers, professionals and consultants with decades of experience.
Visit our membership page to read more about the variety of organizations that make up MEEA membership and how to join if you haven’t already.