E Source Acquires Distributed Energy Financial Group (DEFG)

E Source Acquires CF Power

September 25, 2025

Engineering Services

E Source, a Boulder-based provider of customer, grid, and technology solutions for utilities, has acquired CF Power, a power systems engineering firm known for grid modernization and interconnection studies. The deal, supported by E Source investor Align Capital Partners, strengthens E Source's technical engineering capabilities to support utilities and developers across planning, interconnection and transmission work.

E Source Acquires UMS Group

November 28, 2023

Energy

E Source, the Align Capital Partners-backed utility market intelligence and data-science platform, has acquired UMS Group, a utility management consulting firm. The add-on strengthens E Source’s consulting capabilities in areas such as wildfire risk reduction, asset management, renewable integration and advanced AI modeling for utilities.

E Source Acquires Opinion Dynamics

August 19, 2025

Utilities

E Source, a utilities-focused company backed by Align Capital Partners, has acquired Opinion Dynamics to strengthen its program evaluation, research, and advisory capabilities for utilities. The acquisition expands E Source's ability to deliver end-to-end utility customer and grid-edge solutions—particularly in areas like energy efficiency, electrification, decarbonization, and load flexibility.

ICF Acquires Applied Energy Group from Ameresco

January 7, 2025

Energy

ICF has acquired Applied Energy Group (AEG) from Ameresco in a divestiture that expands ICF's utility and state & local government energy technology and advisory capabilities. AEG brings a cloud-based demand-side management platform, over 100 utility and DSM experts, and projected ~$30 million in 2024 revenue; Ameresco said the sale allows it to focus on core projects, asset and O&M businesses.

E Source Acquires Utilligent

September 18, 2023

Consulting

E Source, a utility market intelligence and solution services platform backed by Align Capital Partners, has acquired Utilligent, an operations and technology management consulting firm serving electric, gas, and water utilities. The add-on expands E Source's capabilities in smart infrastructure, data transformation, program execution, and customer engagement, and increases E Source's headcount by roughly 30%.

Deep Imaging Acquires ESG Solutions

May 10, 2021

Energy

Deep Imaging, a subsurface imaging and frac-diagnostics platform backed by SCF Partners, acquired ESG Solutions (Engineering Seismology Group) to create an integrated subsurface diagnostics company serving upstream oil & gas, mining and geotechnical markets. The combination brings together Deep Imaging's real-time fluid-tracking technology and ESG's microseismic acquisition, processing and analysis capabilities to offer expanded diagnostics and analytics to customers worldwide.