Peoples Gas delivers natural gas to 818,000 residential and business customers in the city of Chicago.

To serve our gas distribution customers, we; purchase gas supplies for customers at the lowest cost possible, monitor and upgrade our distribution system to ensure its safety and reliability, install and read meters in your home or business, calculate bills and process customer payments, respond promptly to reports of gas leaks and other emergencies, provide valuable information through our website and customer newsletter.

Oracle, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is an enterprise software and IT company. Oracle Utilities, founded in 1979, offers comprehensive software solutions for electric, natural gas, and water utilities including customer service and engagement, demand-side management, metering, operations and asset management, grid and network management, and data analytics. In 2016, Oracle acquired Opower – the largest provider of utility customer engagement and energy efficiency cloud services – to enhance the company’s customer engagement solutions.

Opinion Dynamics Corporation is a leading provider of Market Research and Energy Program Evaluations, including impact, process evaluations and market assessments, for utilities and energy industry clients throughout North America. Operating for over twenty years, Opinion Dynamics knowledge of evaluation and research techniques and applications and our familiarity with the industry allow us to provide the strategic information necessary to help our energy clients succeed.

NTC is a premium provider of educational programming with operations in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. We work directly between schools and clients to promote beneficial behaviors and life skills to students in grades K-12 on a local, regional or national level.

Nicor Gas is one of seven natural gas distribution companies of Southern Company Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO). Nicor Gas serves more than 2.2 million customers in a service territory that encompasses most of the northern third of Illinois, excluding the city of Chicago. energySMART, a Nicor Gas program, offers rebates, assessments, free products, and other resources to help customers take control of the way they use natural gas.

CLEAResult is the largest provider of energy efficiency, energy transition and decarbonization solutions in North America. Since 2003, our mission has been to change the way people use energy. Today, our experts lead the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and carbon-neutral future for our communities and our planet.

National Energy Foundation (NEF) was founded in 1976, and has nearly 40 years of experience in service to education. NEF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to the development, dissemination, and implementation of supplementary educational materials, programs, products and services. NEF resources for education relate primarily to energy, water, natural resources, science and math, technology, conservation and the environment.

Mitsubishi Electric and Ingersoll Rand have joined together to provide innovative products, systems and solutions capable of cooling and heating any application from a home to large commercial projects. Receive efficiency, comfort and support from the HVAC industry leaders.

The purpose of Missouri Botanical Garden’s EarthWays Center is to promote sustainability through environmental education and improving the built environment. The EarthWays Home, a three-story Victorian residence built in 1885 was renovated in 1994 to showcase practical demonstrations of energy efficient systems, recycled products and waste reduction practices. Systems and products in the EarthWays Home offer visitors a springboard to rethink product design and building operations to achieve affordable resource efficiency.

The Mid-West Energy Research Consortium is focused on the growth and economic competitiveness of the Energy, Power & Control Industry cluster across the Midwest Region; consisting of the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.

M-WERC will help drive the Midwest Region and the United States to be energy independent based on usage of innovative solutions tied to energy related activities such as; generation, transmission, distribution, storage, automation, power conversion and energy efficiency / conservation.