GIS WebTech and DECH Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Energy Intelligence for Site Selection and Economic Development
Location Data
Energy Costs
Grid Resilience
Better Site Decisions
CUMMING, Ga. and HOUSTON, April 13, 2026 — GIS WebTech LLC and Distributed Energy Clearinghouse™ announced a partnership to integrate energy data and energy intelligence into GIS WebTech’s GURU Site Selection technology and broader economic-development platform.
The collaboration is designed to help site-selection consultants, economic-development organizations, and corporate decision makers better understand the energy implications of potential business locations.
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Energy Is Becoming a Site-Selection Variable
Rising electricity prices, differences in regional costs, grid-resilience concerns, and local power reliability increasingly affect where businesses choose to locate or expand.
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Combining Geospatial and Energy Intelligence
The partnership combines GIS WebTech’s geospatial, demographic, workforce, and infrastructure capabilities with DECH’s location-specific energy analytics.
DECH analysis goes beyond simple utility-rate comparisons by examining power costs, distributed-energy opportunities, business continuity value, energy-use characteristics, and system technologies.
Identify Candidate Sites
Assess Energy Conditions
Compare DER Opportunities
Compare Locations
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Supporting More Defensible Location Decisions
GIS WebTech CEO Ronald Bertasi emphasized the importance of defensible, location-specific information for consultants comparing markets and for economic-development organizations marketing properties to target industries.
DECH CEO Richard Zdunkewicz noted that power costs, local reliability, and resilience have increasingly become C-suite considerations in business-location decisions.
Bring advanced energy metrics into the same decision environment as geospatial and economic-development data.
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About GIS WebTech
GIS WebTech provides technology used by economic-development organizations, site-selection firms, engineering and construction companies, and corporations across North America and Europe.
Its economic-development and site-selection solutions are built on the Esri platform and combine demographic, workforce, infrastructure, and location data.
