Operating Company Business Services

E Source

Boulder, Colorado, United States

E Source provides evidence-based research and guidance for utilities across the US and Canada, combining research with technology to help clients anticipate challenges and make confident decisions. It supports utilities in serving customers, optimizing the grid, and strengthening operations.

Focus Areas
Utility research and advisory, Utility data science / predictive analytics, Utility planning and customer/grid guidance
Website
esource.com

Tracked deals

17

17 tracked deals across 2020-2026.

Recent pace

2

2 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Addon

10 addon · 7 buyout

E Source Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 7 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 7 years for E Source. 1 2020 2 2021 3 2022 4 2023 2 2024 3 2025 ~3 est. 2 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

Showing the 12 most recent of 17 tracked deals for E Source.

  • Buyer
    E Source
    Target
    Aneden Consulting
    Industry
    Energy
    Type
    Buyout

    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.

  • Buyer
    Yes Energy
    Target
    Enelytix, Inc., Newton Energy 2, TCR/PowerIntel
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Yes Energy announced it has acquired Enelytix, a cloud-native power market modeling and long-term nodal forecasting platform. The deal is intended to combine Enelytix’s nodal forecasts and renewable modeling with Yes Energy’s power market data and analytics infrastructure to support investment-grade decision-making in complex power markets.

  • September 25, 2025
    Buyer
    E Source, Align Capital Partners
    Target
    CF Power
    Location
    Alberta, Canada
    Type
    Addon

    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.

  • Buyer
    E Source, Align Capital Partners
    Target
    Opinion Dynamics
    Industry
    Utilities
    Type
    Addon

    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.

  • Buyer
    E Source, Align Capital Partners
    Target
    ILLUME Advising
    Industry
    Consulting
    Type
    Addon

    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.

  • Buyer
    Yes Energy
    Target
    Power Settlements
    Industry
    Software
    Type
    Buyout

    Yes Energy, a Boulder-based power markets data and analytics provider, has acquired Power Settlements, a developer of bid-to-bill software for participants in organized wholesale power markets. The deal combines Yes Energy's ISO market data and analytics with Power Settlements' transaction and settlement tooling to provide an end-to-end workflow for physical and financial power market participants.

  • Buyer
    Itron, Inc.
    Target
    Elpis Squared
    Industry
    Utilities
    Type
    Buyout

    Itron, Inc. has acquired Elpis Squared, a Newport Beach–based provider of software and services for utility grid operations, effective March 5, 2024. The deal expands Itron's Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio by adding Elpis Squared's RE|Grid Suite and expertise in distribution grid planning, operations and engineering to accelerate grid modeling, analytics and operational use of high-resolution grid edge data.

  • Buyer
    Yes Energy
    Target
    Anchor Power Solutions
    Industry
    Energy
    Type
    Buyout

    Yes Energy has acquired Anchor Power Solutions, the developer of EnCompass power market forecasting and resource-planning software. The deal brings Anchor Power’s modeling capabilities into Yes Energy’s data and analytics platform to expand long-term power market modeling, transmission and decarbonization planning tools for utilities, developers and market participants.

  • November 28, 2023
    Buyer
    E Source, Align Capital Partners
    Target
    UMS Group
    Industry
    Energy
    Type
    Addon

    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.

  • Buyer
    Yes Energy
    Target
    The C Three Group
    Industry
    Energy
    Type
    Buyout

    Yes Energy announced on October 3, 2023 that it has acquired The C Three Group, a provider of North American energy infrastructure market intelligence and project databases. The acquisition integrates C Three's infrastructure project datasets and forecasting capabilities into Yes Energy's power market data and analytics platform to give customers deeper visibility into generation, transmission, and interconnection project status and impacts on power markets.

  • September 18, 2023
    Buyer
    E Source, Align Capital Partners
    Target
    Utilligent
    Industry
    Consulting
    Type
    Addon

    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%.

  • Buyer
    Yes Energy, Accel-KKR
    Target
    Live Power Intelligence
    Industry
    Energy
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Addon

    Yes Energy has acquired Live Power Intelligence to integrate Live Power’s real-time generation and transmission flow monitoring into Yes Energy’s power market data platform. The deal, enabled by Yes Energy’s growth equity partner Accel‑KKR, will expand proprietary grid-monitoring coverage and deepen analytics for traders, utilities and power market participants.

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