Decarbonization with
Scale
MEET dJOULE
Answering the call for
change
dJoule (pronounced “jewel’) sparks investment in ambitious district energy solutions for industry, institutions, corporations, and campuses that are economically and strategically motivated to decarbonize their core business. We are an energy holding, development, and advisory company with broad expertise in district energy, real estate, and construction. We engage anchor customers and their communities to re-capitalize existing assets and decarbonize.
Deliberate
impact
Together with our anchor customers and partners, we develop visibly sustainable and grid-integrated thermal energy utility enterprises that invest to achieve ambitious carbon, resilience, and economic goals.
Why us, why now?
Most central (thermal) utility plants and district energy networks in North America are still owned and operated as cost centers. We unlock value by shaping for investment as self-sustaining district energy enterprises that provide competitive, sustainable, and resilient energy to connected customers.
STARTUP
FINANCE
MODERNIZATION
RENEWAL
GROWTH
The heat is on
Communities are calling for change now, as our planet depends on it. Institutions, companies, industry, investors, and government are responding. The stage is set to think bigger and move faster. District energy is a platform for economic development that can massively integrate waste heat and renewable energy from the local environment and electricity grid.
Sharing is caring
Energy loads in multiple facilities are aggregated and served by the district energy network. Surplus waste heat and intermittent renewable energy is stored and used as a primary thermal energy resource, benefiting the economy and environment. Space is simplified and freed for higher and better use in the community.
Integrate waste heat
Balance intermittent renewables
Create available space
Self-sustaining solutions
District energy development, renewal, and growth is efficiently financed in a variety of self-sustaining structures that ensure long-term operation as competitive, customer-oriented enterprises.
- Not-for-profit
- Public private partnership
- Customer-owned cooperative
- For-profit utility, poised to grow
- Renewable energy as a service
- Concession
A cleaner community
District energy succeeds when community aspirations align with economic and environmental benefits for local stakeholders.
What can dJoule do for your enterprise?
Create a path to zero carbon
Re-capitalize existing assets
Turn energy costs into cash flow
Maximize real estate value
Build resilience
Leadership team
Leveraging our complementary district energy, real estate, construction, and development expertise, our team is keenly focused on turning aging assets into thriving district energy enterprises for the benefit of connected customers and their communities.
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Eric Moe
“Together we can develop remarkable, resilient, and self-sustaining networks that are poised for deep decarbonization, renewal, and growth.”
Eric is an accomplished strategist, engineer, and integrator with decades of experience in competitive energy system design, justification, optimization, and growth. He develops district energy systems, enterprises, and supporting companies and is experienced in strategy, valuation and due diligence in the purchase, sale, and debt finance of related assets. Eric is keenly focused on broad integration of waste heat, renewable energy, and the grid to decarbonize new and existing communities.
Eric Moe
Eric is an accomplished strategist, engineer, and integrator with decades of experience in competitive energy system design, justification, optimization, and growth. He develops district energy systems, enterprises, and supporting companies and is experienced in strategy, valuation and due diligence in the purchase, sale, and debt finance of related assets. Eric is keenly focused on broad integration of waste heat, renewable energy, and the grid to decarbonize new and existing communities.
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Alex Sassoon
“Sustainable development doesn’t just fulfill a need now, it protects future generations by ensuring economic, societal, and environmental longevity.”
Alex is a real estate veteran with a successful track record of identifying and recovering hidden value in property for stakeholder benefit. He recognizes high untapped value in existing assets that can be realized by transforming infrastructure, repurposing space, and simplifying system operations. He is a voice of the customer that relates to real estate owners, developers, and tenants. Alex is excited to support a team that is creating assets from liabilities and is decarbonizing property at district scale.
Alex Sassoon
Alex is a real estate veteran with a successful track record of identifying and recovering hidden value in property for stakeholder benefit. He recognizes high untapped value in existing assets that can be realized by transforming infrastructure, repurposing space, and simplifying system operations. He is a voice of the customer that relates to real estate owners, developers, and tenants. Alex is excited to support a team that is creating assets from liabilities and is decarbonizing property at district scale.
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Joe Hoose
“We are committed to making real change – to reversing the course and driving decarbonization to create and foster healthier, more resilient communities.”
Joe is an experienced and visible district energy advocate and entrepreneur with broad hands-on integration skill. He engages development partners, suppliers, and clients to identify and address challenges. And to spark investment with focus on how to maximize benefits afforded by energy infrastructure, waste energy recovery, and thermal delivery. He is extremely proud of his deep retrofit and resource conservation success collaborating with healthcare campuses and major institutions.
Joe Hoose
Joe is an experienced and visible district energy advocate and entrepreneur with broad hands-on integration skill. He engages development partners, suppliers, and clients to identify and address challenges. And to spark investment with focus on how to maximize benefits afforded by energy infrastructure, waste energy recovery, and thermal delivery. He is extremely proud of his deep retrofit and resource conservation success collaborating with healthcare campuses and major institutions.
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“District energy empowers organizations and communities by giving them more freedom and control, greater reliability and flexibility, and lower operational costs.”
FEATURED ALLIANCES
DSI alliance
dJoule aligns with several highly capable environmental, engineering, and construction companies as well and mission-aligned organizations such as the International District Energy Association and the CleanTech Alliance.
DSI is one particularly talented company who is providing expert environmental fluid dynamic modeling support to our team and local stakeholders. Support to facilitate investment in assets that provide clean energy to institutional customers and cool water to salmon threatened during migration.
FEATURED PROJECT: ADVISORY
Net zero carbon at UBC Okanagan
We are proud to have advised the University of British Columbia in the development of a High Level Net Zero Carbon District Energy Strategy in their continued efforts toward a resilient, competitive, sustainable, and self-sustaining district energy operation.
FEATURED PROJECT: DEVELOPMENT
Decarbonizing Portland's urban core
With a local equity partner we engaged to shape the startup and development of a renewable district energy enterprise to serve both existing and new customers in Portland’s River District. A system that would feature waste heat recovery, thermal storage, and renewable gas in service to connected customers.
Start a conversation
Our development team is keenly interested in collaborating with select customers and partners to decarbonize institutions, campuses, and communities. We engage where new and existing buildings are connected to fossil steam or hot water networks and where neighborhoods are growing on the fringe. Where fossil fuel is a primary energy source, and the institutional will is emerging (or exists) to take action to improve economics, resilience, and sustainability.