As 2025 comes to a close, TPI Efficiency is wrapping up one of the most transformative years in the company’s history—marked by strategic growth, expanded services, and a renewed focus on helping clients navigate a complex, fast-changing energy landscape.

A Major Milestone: Acquiring The Utilities Group

This year’s headline achievement was TPI Efficiency’s acquisition of The Utilities Group (TUG), a Cincinnati-based energy management and sustainability consulting firm. By joining forces, TPI and TUG created a stronger, more comprehensive platform for mid-market organizations across Ohio and the broader Midwest.

• Combined strengths in energy procurement, management, and sustainability consulting now sit under one umbrella.
• The merger significantly expanded TPI’s presence, aligning its Cleveland-anchored history with TUG’s Southwest Ohio footprint to enhance service for customers in Cincinnati, Dayton, and beyond.
• With support from private equity partner ScaleCo Capital, the combined entity is positioned as a leading regional provider of energy optimization, efficiency projects, and sustainability solutions.

For clients, this means more expertise, more capacity, and a broader range of tools to reduce costs, manage risk, and advance sustainability goals.

Deepening Expertise in a Volatile Market

Energy markets in 2025 were defined by volatility and uncertainty—from persistent natural gas price swings to elevated wholesale power prices and growing demand driven by AI, electrification, and LNG exports. Throughout the year, TPI focused on making sense of these dynamics for its clients.

• Regular Energy Market Snapshot reports broke down key trends in natural gas and power prices, highlighting the factors driving volatility and where strategic buying opportunities might exist.
• TPI helped organizations interpret PJM price signals, capacity outcomes, and regional grid pressures to adjust budget assumptions and procurement timing.
• Market education content was designed to turn complex data into practical guidance, reinforcing TPI’s role as an energy advisory partner—not just a broker.

The result: clients stayed ahead of pricing risk and were better equipped to make informed, proactive decisions rather than reactive, last-minute moves.

Expanding Solutions: From Cost Control to Sustainability

TPI also broadened and sharpened its solutions in 2025, helping organizations move from “just keeping the lights on” to building resilient, future-ready energy strategies.

Key areas of focus included:

• Strategic energy and sustainability planning – Supporting clients in setting realistic savings and emissions goals, sequencing projects, and aligning initiatives with budget cycles.
• Efficiency and capital projects – Guiding upgrades like lighting, HVAC, controls, and other facility improvements, with a strong emphasis on practical payback and total cost of ownership.
• Funding and incentives – Providing insight into evolving federal and state programs, including coverage of significant changes and interruptions to USDA’s REAP program that affected solar and efficiency project funding later in the year.

This combination of advisory support, project guidance, and funding intelligence helped clients unlock savings while advancing their decarbonization agendas.

Recognition and Leadership in the Region

TPI’s growing impact did not go unnoticed in 2025. The firm continued to be recognized as a trusted partner for energy consulting and sustainability leadership throughout Northeast Ohio and the broader Midwest.

• Leadership recognition, including regional sustainability honors, underscored TPI’s role as a go-to advisor for businesses seeking both cost savings and environmental progress.
• Partnerships with investors like ScaleCo Capital and Tecum Capital further validated TPI’s growth trajectory and its mission to build a premier regional platform for energy and sustainability services.

Across industry sectors—from manufacturing and food processing to healthcare, commercial real estate, and institutional facilities—TPI’s team remained in the room, helping decision-makers weigh trade-offs, evaluate options, and move projects forward.

Looking Ahead to 2026

The foundation laid in 2025 sets the stage for an ambitious 2026. With the integration of The Utilities Group well underway, TPI is poised to:

• Deliver even deeper market intelligence and scenario planning to help clients manage risk in a high-volatility environment.
• Expand its portfolio of efficiency and sustainability projects, from no-cost audits to multi-site, multi-measure upgrades.
• Continue strengthening its presence across Ohio and the Midwest as a trusted, vendor-neutral energy and sustainability partner.

Above all, 2025 proved that when markets get more complex, TPI’s value becomes clearer. The team’s ability to translate complexity into opportunity—through advisory services, project execution, and strategic funding guidance—will only grow more critical in the year ahead.