ECR International (www.ecrinternational.com)

ECR is the lead business, manufacturing and financial partner of Climate Energy. ECR's beginnings date from 1928, when Earle C. Reed established manufacturing facilities for cast iron boilers and radiators in Dunkirk and Utica, New York. Today ECR designs, manufactures and markets HVAC equipment including furnaces, boilers, water heaters, and hydronic system controls in modern plants at Dunkirk and Utica New York; and Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada. A fourth ECR facility in Rome, New York, is dedicated to the design and manufacture of cooling products for residential, light commercial, institutional, and hospitality markets. Combined, these facilities have nearly 3/4 of a million square feet of manufacturing capacity to meet the growing needs of ECR customers. ECR has a track record of developing industry leading products.

Yankee Scientific (www.yankeescientific.com)

Yankee Scientific is directly involved with the development of the technologies that have made Micro-CHP appliances practical. Yankee is also involved in the development of strategic partnerships that support Climate's capital needs and enhance our ability to communicate with government and industry groups interested in the environmental and energy savings attributes that Micro-CHP offers.

Yankee Scientific is an engineering services company that has been designing and building advanced products and appliances since its founding in 1988. Yankee has had a longtime focus on heat transfer and energy related systems. Over the years Yankee has worked closely with ECR on the development of several advanced hydronic heating systems, including the successful Quantum series of cast aluminum boilers.