In This Issue:

- Leaders in the News

- Innovator Profile

- Event Highlights

- Washington Update

- Energy Navigator

- Upcoming Events

- Excerpt from Leaders in the News:

This month we’re featuring our friends at Noesis whose unique loan products and project valuation platform are leading businesses to transformative and sustainable energy improvements. Noesis helps commercial building owners increase the value of their real estate by making informed investment decisions in energy-related equipment, such as LED lights, solar panels, and building controls. Utilizing in-house efficiency project financing expertise and proprietary project valuation technology, Noesis gives building owners crucial information to evaluate energy-related investments along with the third-party financing required for those investments. Noesis has helped local and national real estate owners as well as over 170 US commercial energy equipment and services companies evaluate proposals and financing for projects that reduce energy output and operating costs. The company estimates its project financing proposal pipeline will top $1 billion this year. In February 2015, building on this recent success, Noesis added another $25 million in lending capacity. In addition, on March 25, 2015, the company reported raising $5 million in additional equity financing.

Innovator Profile -

This month’s profile features WeSpire, Inc., the leading engagement platform company that provides sustainability and responsibility programs to global corporations. WeSpire, a Boston-based company, helps its forward-thinking global client companies reach their greatest potential by engaging in sustainability and responsibility initiatives through WeSpire’s persuasive technology that builds awareness, drives behavioral change, and measures business results. WeSpire focuses on a wide variety of initiatives including energy, water, waste, transportation, food, volunteerism, and corporate citizenship projects.