Employee-owned Cascade Energy earns national recognition in its first year participating 

PORTLAND, Ore., August 17, 2026 — Cascade Energy has been named one of the 2026 PEOPLE® Companies That Care®, earning the No. 74 spot on the annual list presented by PEOPLE magazine and Great Place To Work®. Cascade joins honorees including Delta Air Lines, Wegmans Food Markets, Camden Property Trust, Publix, and Salesforce. 

The list recognizes organizations that achieve business success while demonstrating exceptional care for their people, their communities, and the environment. Rankings are based on confidential employee feedback and on company-submitted documentation of workplace practices and corporate citizenship. 

“We’re 100% employee-owned, so we all share in Cascade’s success, and you see it in how we show up for each other and support the communities we work in. It means a lot that this recognition comes from our own team’s feedback,” said Dan Brown, CEO of Cascade Energy. 

Employee ownership shapes how Cascade invests in career development, shares business results with the people who generate them, and chooses the work it takes on. 

Cascade’s recognition also reflects employee-led community engagement. Across Cascade our staff volunteers with high school tech summit days and champion Cascade’s partnership with iUrban Teen, which connects students from underrepresented communities to careers in technology and engineering. These dedicated Cascadians also run Cascade’s summer engineering internship program in Portland, where students work alongside Cascade engineers on energy projects. 

Cascade’s environmental impact runs through its client work. In 2025, the company delivered 978.6 GWh in energy savings for industrial and commercial clients, enough to power roughly 89,000 U.S. homes for a year. That result brings Cascade 76% of the way toward a long-term goal of 8,000 GWh saved by 2028, a target the company set to help ease mounting strain on the nation’s power grids as demand accelerates.  

About Cascade Energy 

Cascade Energy is a 100% employee-owned energy management, sustainability, and technology company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Cascade helps industrial and commercial organizations and utility partners reduce energy use, lower emissions, and build lasting energy management capability. The company’s portfolio includes the Gazebo energy management software platform, Fresh Coast Climate Solutions, and Yield Energy. Learn more at cascadeenergy.com. 

About PEOPLE® Companies That Care 

Great Place To Work selected the 2026 PEOPLE Companies That Care List by gathering and analyzing more than 1.3 million confidential survey responses from companies representing over 7.3 million U.S. employees at Great Place To Work Certified™ organizations. Of those, nearly 970,000 responses came from employees at companies eligible for the list, and the rankings are based on that feedback. Company rankings draw on 60 employee experience questions within the Great Place To Work Trust Index™ Survey, along with essays submitted by participating companies. 

About Great Place To Work 

As the global authority on workplace culture, Great Place To Work, a UKG company, brings 30 years of groundbreaking research and data to help every place become a great place to work for all. Its proprietary platform and Great Place To Work Model help companies evaluate the experience of every employee, with exemplary workplaces becoming Great Place To Work Certified™ and receiving recognition on a coveted Best Workplaces™ list. 

Media Contact 

Cascade Energy: Susan Hanson, Chief of Staff, susan.hanson@cascadeenergy.com 

PEOPLE: PEOPLEPR@peoplemag.com 

Great Place To Work: Kim Peters, 415-844-2574, kpeters@greatplacetowork.com