E Source Acquires Opinion Dynamics

E Source Acquires Aneden Consulting

August 24, 2026

Energy

E Source acquired Aneden Consulting, an interconnection and compliance engineering firm, to deepen E Source’s grid modernization, engineering, and interconnection capabilities. The acquisition expands E Source’s technical depth and helps utilities, developers, and hyperscalers navigate increasingly complex and longer interconnection processes.

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 ILLUME Advising

May 6, 2025

Consulting

E Source, a utilities-focused research, data science and consulting company, has acquired ILLUME Advising, a boutique research and program-evaluation consultancy for the energy and utility sector. The deal, executed by E Source (which is backed by Align Capital Partners), is an add-on intended to expand E Source's program evaluation, human-centered research and customer-insight capabilities for utility clients across North America.

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 AAC Utility Partners

January 4, 2022

Utilities

E Source, a provider of research, data science and consulting for North American utilities, has acquired AAC Utility Partners, a Columbia, South Carolina-based vendor-independent consulting firm that specializes in customer information systems (CIS), program management and cloud consulting for utilities. The transaction is an add-on to E Source's Technology Planning and Implementation (TPI) business unit and is intended to expand the company's implementation, CIS and cloud capabilities for electric, gas, water and wastewater utilities.

Opinion Dynamics Acquires Research Into Action

February 28, 2019

Energy

Opinion Dynamics, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based energy evaluation and market research firm, has acquired Research Into Action, a Portland-based energy evaluation and market insights company. The acquisition brings Research Into Action's energy research professionals into Opinion Dynamics to expand capabilities and further grow the firm's core services across the U.S.