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ICF was founded in 1969 as the Inner City Fund to finance minority-owned businesses in Washington, DC, and to support disadvantaged communities. Their founding was the beginning of their decision to be a purpose-driven company. How they serve their clients today is based on their core principles and company values:
- Interact with integrity
- Challenge assumptions.
- Bring your passion.
- Work together.
- Embrace differences.
- Be greater than.
Today, ICF is a global advisory, digital, and engagement services firm headquartered in Reston, VA. They provide professional services and technology-based solutions to government and commercial clients, including management, marketing, technology, and policy consulting and implementation services. They help their clients conceive, develop, implement, and improve solutions that address complex business, natural resource, social, technological, and public safety issues.
Key energy efficiency related work
For more than 30 years, ICF has partnered with the nation’s top utilities and developers, along with nearly every U.S. federal agency, state energy office and energy non-governmental organization, providing end-to-end offerings across the energy value chain—from strategy to planning and analysis to implementation. ICF currently delivers over 200 active energy efficiency, electrification and demand management programs across North America, including for over 60 utilities and is one of the largest electrification implementers in the U.S. They work with seven of the top ten American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)–ranked states. Since its launch in 1992, ICF has also partnered with the ENERGY STAR® program as a prime contractor.
Their programs are recognized as best-in-class by a range of industry associations, regulatory bodies, utilities, and government agencies, including ACEEE, Consortium for Energy Efficiency, Association of Energy Services Professionals, Smart Electric Power Alliance, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, and Chartwell.
In Virginia, ICF supports Dominion Energy, Washington Gas, and Old Dominion Electric Cooperative on various projects ranging from technical advisory to the implementation of energy efficiency and demand response programs.
Additional highlights
ICF is continuing its work with the Virginia Department of Transportation to develop the next phase of National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure planning, following their support of their 2023 planning process. They recently worked with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and three metro regions in Viriginia (Northern VA, Richmond and Hampton Roads) to develop their EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Priority Climate Action Plans. They also worked with DEQ and with state agency partners (Virginia Energy, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources) to prepare winning Climate Pollution Reduction Grant applications valued at over $150M for reducing methane emissions and for coastline and natural and working lands carbon sequestration projects.
They are also working closely with local governments to plan for and implement clean energy actions. For example, they are supporting Loudoun County with its energy strategy implementation, following their work with the county to develop the strategy. They also worked with Arlington County to prepare a winning $1M grant application for the EPA Environmental Justice Grants Government to Government program to develop a tool that will allow users to the model the potential benefits of single and bundled-measure energy improvements to affordable housing and commercial structures common to underserved and disadvantaged communities in the Northern Virginia and greater regional territories.
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