Renewable Energy Consulting

(Post: English)
"Two years ago, three Tufts University students and one Babson College student attended the Energy Security Initiative at Tufts (now the Tufts Energy Forum), a group whose mission is 'to spread and enhance the discussion surrounding all aspects of the transforming, global energy industry.'"

It was there that Jesse Gossett, Jared Rodriguez, Jayson Uppal, and Chris Jacobs decided there was a need in the consulting sphere to help guide municipalities and private businesses toward using renewable energies and setting up sustainability practices.

The quartet spent their final year in college researching and readying a business to do just that.

Before they graduated, they landed their first consulting contract.

Emergent now has about 30 clients, mostly municipalities, including the towns of Yates, Shelby, and Orleans County in western New York.

The firm is profitable, had $150,000 in revenue last year, and estimates it will reach $250,000 in 2009.

INFO:
The Company: Emergent
What It Does: Renewable energy consulting
Founders: Jesse Gossett, 23; Jayson Uppal, 23; Chris Jacobs, 21; Jared Rodriguez, 23; and Greg Hering, 22
Based: Boston, USA

Source: BusinessWeek