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Who we are

Energy Design Engineers

Energy Design Engineers (EDE) is a Michigan-based engineering firm specializing in identifying and eliminating hidden energy waste, as well as decarbonizing manufacturing, industrial, and commercial facilities. Since 2008, we’ve helped thousands of companies improve operational efficiency, reduce utility costs, improve work environments for better employee retention, and lower their carbon footprint through targeted, data-driven strategies. From lighting and HVAC upgrades to compressed air audits, process evaluations, and advanced energy monitoring, our work is rooted in measurable results and long-term performance.
What sets EDE apart is our ability to combine engineering expertise with real-world implementation. We’re not just consultants—we’re problem-solvers who walk your facility, analyze your systems, and deliver practical, cost-effective solutions backed by utility incentives, financing options, and payback analysis. Our projects often qualify for 40–100% utility funding, and most deliver a return on investment within two years.

We recently achieved the Milestone of One Billion Kilowatt-Hours of energy waste removal and thousands of metric tons of CO₂ emissions removed from the atmosphere. 

At EDE, we love our work and helping our clients better understand how they can reduce their operating costs affordably.   We partner with our clients to create customized energy strategies that align with their financial goals, ESG commitments, and operational priorities. Whether you manage a multi-site manufacturing operation or a single facility, our team will help you uncover the energy you’re wasting—and turn it into a competitive advantage.

Our Clients

Oliver
Meijer
Graham
MACI
MSCI
Lincoln Park
Paragaon
Asahi
Our Mission

At Energy Design Engineers, our mission is to help businesses reduce energy waste, cut operating costs, improve their work environment and employee conditions, and lower their carbon footprint through advanced engineering, utility-supported solutions, and long-term partnerships. We combine data-driven insight with hands-on expertise to deliver measurable savings and lasting impact.

Our vision

To build a future where every facility operates at peak efficiency—financially and environmentally—by eliminating energy waste and empowering smart, sustainable operations.

Our Core Values
  1. Honor God in all that we do.

  2. People before profits.   A lot of company’s claim to do this, at EDE we live it and it is rooted deeply into our company’s culture and beliefs.

  3. Integrity – no cutting corners and always straightforward and honest projections and design.   

  4. Winning is EVERYTHING. No one remembers the second-place finisher.

  5. Exceed our clients’ EXPECTATIONS in all our work.

  6. Always be a leader with new technologies

How We Work

Site Visit & Discovery

Finding your energy waste is our 1st task

Design

Engineering energy smart solutions for your facility in our next step in our process

Finance

Cost-effective funding for any project, maximizing utility incentive money to drive the best possible project ROI and lowest Cost of Ownership

Deploy

Implementing our strategies to bring them to life

Optimize

Fine-tune software and systems to maximize your savings and to eliminate as much energy waste as possible.

Reporting

We use utility-grade meters and software so our data is accurate and timely for our clients when they want it.

Our Advantage

We have learned a lot from our humble beginning in 2008, and what has allowed us to win so many projects is the following:

We have over 100,000 million sq ft of projects under roof and thousands of clients' project data. This data helps drive our design and actions, allowing us to improve future projects. Our solutions are rich with touchpoints and sensor technology, providing our clients and company with essential feedback/knowledge.

Results We deliver on our promised results in an industry where this can be difficult for many companies.

This is our secret sauce, which comes back to the data we have collected on what works and what doesn’t. Our work reduces more energy waste and has a lower cost of ownership - period.

Today, one of the lighting solutions we implement tracks assets, provides geo-fencing, measures temperature, and much more...yes, this is all done through an advanced canopy of sensors in the LED light fixtures. 10-years ago, we were selling lighting technology that our competition is just starting to sell today (2021). The bottom line is, Energy Design Engineers deliver technology that results in 30 - 40% greater energy savings than 98% of our competitors.

Today, companies require different financial vehicles to launch new projects successfully. Some want off-balance sheet financing, others wish for a short-term lease, and others want to pay for the improvements through their utility bill. Energy Design Engineers offer all these models and more, and many of our clients qualify for 0% - 1.9% financing. The overwhelming percent of our projects that do finance are cash flow positive each month.

Available Positions

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EDE

We are seeking retires (part-time) and full-time sales help in the following Michigan markets; Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, Kent, and Genesee counties in Michigan

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EDE

We are seeking experienced full-time business development professionals who want to work from home. Applicants must have five years of business development experience.

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Energy Design Engineers (EDE) is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to help us grow our company in a number of different areas.

Who we are

Energy Design Engineers

Since 2008, we are a leader in delivering new technologies to reduce energy waste, and carbon, decrease utility costs, and improve our clients work environments.
We create a dashboards that will measure your carbon reduction, energy and financial savings and the impact of this work on your work environ really matter and are useful to the company. Our clients want data and controls that are easily managed from their phones or tablets. This data needs to feed back to their dashboards in real time to provide up to the minute information and or results, and we help deliver that.
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