Atlas Holdings has acquired Detroit Thermal, the City of Detroit’s underground district energy steam system, a Detroit-based energy-from-waste facility that produces steam and electricity from municipal waste, and Hamtramck Energy Services, which operates the private industrial steam plants at several General Motors facilities in Michigan.
The acquired assets will operate as independent subsidiaries under the umbrella of newly formed Detroit Renewable Energy and will be headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.
Detroit Thermal owns and operates a 39-mile, low-pressure steam loop in downtown Detroit that has been in operation since 1903 and is the sole source of heating for 104 buildings and 144 customers in the urban core.
The Detroit energy-from-waste plant, which creates renewable energy from waste-derived fuel, will operate under the name Detroit Renewable Power and sell its steam – its primary product – to Detroit Thermal and the majority of its electricity to DTE Energy.
