Recent Clients

American Flatbread Burlington Hearth[back to top]
In keeping with American Flatbread's mission - "to produce, package, market, and distribute our product in an environmentally conscientious way" - Spring Hill Solutions is assessing the carbon profile of this local favorite. We're implementing an emissions-reduction and energy-saving plan, as well as helping the management spread the word to customers and the public.

Champlain College[back to top]
Spring Hill Solutions is working closely with students, faculty, and staff to conduct an comprehensive carbon inventory of this private, non-profit college in Burlington's Hill Section. This process is a key component of Champlain's broader institutional goal of integrating sustainable principles and practices, and minimizing resource use, throughout its campus.

Efficiency Vermont[back to top]
Efficiency Vermont, Vermont's award-winning energy efficiency utility, enlisted Spring Hill Solutions to assess the market for its services on Vermont's 23 campuses. We're helping Efficiency Vermont respond to the questions generated by this process - from working to increase student participation in campus energy initiatives to coordinating training workshops for university administration and facility staff.

Gardener’s Supply Company[back to top]
For 25 years, Gardener's Supply has upheld a commitment to community development, environmental stewardship and the wellbeing of its employees. This employee-owned business donates 8% of its pre-tax profits to local and national non-profit organizations that promote gardening and protecting the environment. The company has partnered with Spring Hill Solutions to measure and reduce its operational carbon emissions and to conduct a carbon life-cycle analysis of its catalog production and distribution process.

Main Street Landing[back to top]
Main Street Landing, an environmentally and socially conscious property redevelopment company, operates from a platform of ecological integrity, economic security, individual empowerment, and social well-being. Spring Hill Solutions is assisting MSL in inventorying and reducing the carbon emissions from its buildings and operations, while identifying opportunities for cost savings.

Otter Creek Brewing[back to top]
This Vermont-based, family-owned brewer of organic and conventional craft-brewed beers is working with Spring Hill Solutions to determine the feasibility of using biomass fuel to meet substantial portion of it energy needs. Having authored a successful grant proposal to fund the research, SHS is coordinating the study process and will work to secure the additional funding needed to make the biomass heating system a reality for the brewery.

Vermont Butter & Cheese Company[back to top]
Since 1984, the Vermont Butter & Cheese Company has built its success on a mission of sustainability, supporting local agriculture, and producing premium quality, all natural fresh and aged goats' milk cheese and European style fresh cheeses - all while reducing its environmental impact and creating an empowering workplace. VBC chose Spring Hill Solutions to measure and understand its carbon profile with a focus on brand enhancement, cost reductions, and increased operational efficiency and productivity.

Vermont Department of Public Service[back to top]
As a consultant to the Vermont Department of Public Service, Spring Hill Solutions recently drafted a feasibility analysis for the Vermont 25x'25 Initiative - the goal of which is to provide at least 25% of Vermont's energy needs from renewable sources by the year 2025. The study explores and evaluates the benefits and barriers associated with developing renewable energy production from Vermont's farms, forests, and other in-state resources.

Vermont Energy Investment Corporation[back to top]
The Vermont Energy Investment Corporation - a non-profit organization with approximately 140 employees - has a mission to reduce the economic, social, and environmental costs of energy consumption through the promotion of cost-effective energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. Spring Hill Solutions is helping VEIC to achieve its recently announced "BHAG" or "Big Hairy Audacious Goal" - to offset their personal and organizational carbon emissions by 10,000-fold by the year 2027.

Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund[back to top]
When the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund was awarded a significant federal grant to focus on accelerating the growth of Vermont's biodiesel industry, Spring Hill Solutions came on board to assess and coordinate specific project prospects, manage federal reporting and compliance issues, and lend our renewable fuels technical and sector expertise to the process.

Other Spring Hill Solutions clients, past and present, include:
Clean Power Now
CT Donovan Associates, Inc.
East Haven Windfarm
Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation
ipCapital Group, Inc.
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Northern Power Systems
NRG Systems, Inc.
OEM Development Corporation
REimaginations
Renewable Energy Vermont
Tuvalu Green Power, LLC
Vermont Biofuels Association
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation