iCeL Systems CEO Chaz Haba met Tom Martinez, Statewide Director of Business Development for the IBEW-NECA LMCC, and Kim Craft of IBEW Local 11, back in 2006. Mr. Haba explained in detail the unsurpassed benefits of pairing iCEL Systems with renewable energy; the safety, reliability, and uniquely long life impressed these industry professionals. Haba’s relationship with the IBEW and NECA evolved further with Jim Wilson and Marvin Kropke, and eventually he met with President Edwin Hill in 2008. Huge proponents of a clean energy future, the IBEW and NECA decided to become the major installation arm of iCEL Systems throughout the United States.

Edwin Hill boldly endorsed iCEL Systems in a 2009 letter to Steven Chu, the U.S. Secretary of Energy. “The IBEW is proud of its commitment to iCEL Systems, Inc. and looks forward to creating new jobs that will support the increased viability of renewable electricity generation.” Mr. Hill predicted, “When implemented they will serve as the missing link in the plan for energy independence.”

iCEL Systems looks forward to making this vision a reality. Beginning with Local 11, the IBEW will be training its members to install iCEL energy storage and management systems paired with clean renewable energy at its 250 training centers. This powerful partnership of IBEW, NECA, and iCEL Systems will create hundreds of new green union jobs across the country, grow a smarter grid, and spur the budding Internet of Energy™.