How Energy and Sustainability Leaders Are Scaling Impact Through Innovation in 2025
Part 2: Insights from E+E Leader Award Winners Leading Through Change
By Willow Kennedy, featuring Anthony Lou, Infinitum
August 18, 2025 7:30 am
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Key Takeaways
- 2025 E+E Leader Award winners share how they’re scaling impact through technology, data, and innovation.
- Themes include platform optimization, artificial intelligence, digital strategy, and retrofit technologies.
- Featured organizations in this article include Bidgely, Benchmark Gensuite, Carrier Abound, Infinitum, Uplight, and Trane.
The 2026 Environment+Energy Leader Awards are now open—and this year, we’re making room for the innovators building what’s next. With the launch of our new Startup Awards, we’re recognizing emerging companies that are helping redefine what’s possible in sustainability, energy, and ESG.
To highlight the kinds of impact we hope to see more of in 2026, we turned to our 2025 award winners. The organizations featured below told us how they are scaling their efforts through advanced platforms, automation, AI, and targeted investment.
Whether launching new solutions or optimizing existing systems, each of these companies is demonstrating what it looks like to grow—or continue to grow—with purpose.
Infinitum: Anthony Lou, Director of Mission Critical
Infinitum is helping data centers reduce emissions and energy use by modernizing cooling systems with efficient motor technology.
See their Judges Choice Award winning Business & Infrastructure solution here.
“One way we’re continuing to scale our impact in 2025 is by helping data centers upgrade aging systems for greater energy efficiency and reliability in the face of AI demand and grid constraints.
With U.S. power consumption from data centers expected to nearly double by decade’s end, there is growing urgency to optimize energy consumption and increase operational efficiency, especially as AI workloads multiply.
Retrofitting cooling equipment with motors that draw fewer amps boosts data center Power Usage Effectiveness, slashes energy costs and reduces strain on the electric grid. Retrofits that leverage highly serviceable systems can also help data centers maximize uptime and increase long-term operational savings and impact.”
Read the full article at environmentenergyleader.com.
