From a two-engineer trailer in 1964 to a billion-dollar energy-services platform, Willdan’s story is an unexpected tale of survival, reinvention, and scale: nearly sunk by the Great Recession, the company pivoted from municipal engineering into utility-backed energy efficiency, then grew rapidly through bold acquisitions, weathered integration headaches and COVID, and is now riding the IRA-fueled boom—and even the surge in AI-driven data-center demand—into a new era of grid modernization. Along the way it learned hard lessons about M&A, operational discipline, and the hard economics of a labor-intensive services business, leaving investors and operators to ask whether Willdan can keep its footing as it chases bigger wins. Explore the decisions, deals, and policy tailwinds that transformed a modest public-works firm into an indispensable player in America’s energy transition—and to see what could go right—or wrong—next as it rides the AI wave.
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