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Rate and procurement
Energy supply contracts, demand-response enrollment and utility programs across Con Edison, PSE&G, JCP&L and Atlantic City Electric territory. Incentives flow to the owner.
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About ieComfort
A controls firm run by people who spent thirty years inside the industry's largest companies, and chose to build open.
ieComfort, llc is a minority-owned smart HVAC, controls and building automation firm in Montclair, New Jersey, founded in 2016 by William H. Harris III. The work is open, multi-vendor building controls and energy modernization for commercial and institutional facilities in New York City, Westchester, Long Island and northern and central New Jersey.
Reviewed October 28, 2026. Items marked in yellow are being confirmed by the ieComfort team before launch.
Who we are
The company is young. The experience behind it is not.
Bill Harris founded ieComfort in 2016 after a career that ran from a Johnson Controls service truck to the executive offices of two of the largest HVAC manufacturers. The firm's stated mission is to expand opportunities for growth and engagement in the automation business for minorities. Its first job was a grocery store near where Bill lived.
Today the practice is institutional at its center: universities, city agencies, a senior-care campus and a public library among them, most of them tax-exempt owners who buy through procurement rather than a handshake. The same work is done for commercial owners and property managers, and as install labor for other contractors.
Two things stay constant. The firm works in two regulatory regimes, New York and New Jersey, and treats them as two different businesses. And every piece of the stack it installs is chosen so the owner is not locked in to one vendor.
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William H. Harris III, founder
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How the work runs
Verify, engineer, fund, and hand over.
Any owner can enter at any stage. A building that already has a quote starts at engineering; a building nobody can explain starts at verification.
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Verify
Before anything is specified, find out what the equipment is doing, which points are reliable, what the sequences run, and what the building cannot observe. Missing information is part of the finding.
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Engineer
Equipment, controls and integration that lower the load and hold the peak down, specified on measured operation rather than an old nameplate.
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Fund
Utility programs in four territories, state study money, lender financing and procurement, matched to the building and the state it is in. The utility decides eligibility; the application is prepared so that it can.
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Hand over
Installed and verified are different stages. The sequence is tested against what was approved, alarms are confirmed to reach someone, and what remains unresolved is documented. Continuing monitoring is a separate arrangement, scoped with the owner.
What ieComfort does not do
It does not hold the professional engineer or registered architect signature that two New York City filings require (the Local Law 87 energy efficiency report and the Local Law 97 Article 320 report); those are signed by a licensed partner. It does not guarantee incentive approval; the utility decides. And it does not plug customers into a standing monitoring platform; where monitoring is wanted, it is scoped separately, subject to point availability, network and cybersecurity approval, alarm ownership and commissioning.
Who you would be hiring
Thirty years in HVAC controls, from the truck up.
William H. Harris III began as a field technician in a Johnson Controls truck, about eight years of it. He spent about twelve years at Trane, leaving as Vice President of Education Sales for the United States and Canada. He then ran Daikin Applied New York as General Manager, where he is credited with driving the expansion and adoption of VRF in the New York City market. He founded ieComfort in 2016.
In 2011 he co-authored "Building a Business Case for Going Green" in Facilities Manager, a six-step framework for taking an efficiency project to a board. His parents were educators, and the firm offers educational-environment consulting at a discount as a community service.
"Say what you are going to do, then do what you said."
Bill Harris, founderJoseph M. Harris, COO, runs the firm's business development, partnerships and outbound work. [Title and role wording: confirm with Joe]
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Field work: controls panel or rooftop plant
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Load and controls
Field commissioning on open and proprietary systems; Niagara 4 and Innotech certified; equipment replacement sized on operating evidence.
Controls and building automation →03
Compliance and verification
New York City and New Jersey filings, with licensed partners for the two that need a professional seal, and analytics where separately agreed to show what changed.
What each state requires →Certifications and registrations
Certified with New York City, New York State and New Jersey.
As listed on ieComfort's 2024 capabilities statement. Yellow items are being confirmed; current certificates, with expiration dates, come with the vendor packet.
Minority and small-business certifications
- NYCMBE #MWCERT2018-1427
- NYSMBE #64420
- Port AuthorityMBE, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- NJDOTDBE, approved June 19, 2017
- NYNJMSDC#NY15689
- NJ MBE[NJ MBE certificate number: confirm, K-02]
Two numbers are on file, #74665-21 and #68837-23. One goes here. - NJ SBE[NJ SBE certificate number: confirm, K-03]
Two numbers are on file, #A0096-06 and #A0050-04. One goes here.
Registrations and codes
- CAGE7RVK9
- DUNS080459230 (issued before SAM.gov moved to the Unique Entity ID)
- UEI[SAM.gov Unique Entity ID: confirm]
- NJ BRC#2079694 (Business Registration)
- NJ PWCR#726008 (Public Works Contractor)
- NJ HIC#13V0934920 (Home Improvement Contractor)
- NAICS238210, 238220, 423730
Technical credentials
- Niagara 4Tridium certified
- InnotechInnotech Controls certified
- FCCGeneral Radiotelephone License
- FiberAT&T fiber optic splicing and system configuration
- EPA 608[EPA Section 608: confirm who holds it]
Where we work
- New YorkNew York City, Westchester and Long Island
- New JerseyNorthern and central New Jersey
- Office63 Oakwood Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043
Who we work for
- New YorkHigher education; New York City agencies; a senior-care campus; property managers
- New JerseyA main public library; a public housing authority; a charter school
- TradeInstall labor and controls subcontracting for other contractors
Next step
Find out what applies to your building.
Send a recent utility bill and an equipment list. We read them against the programs and obligations in your state and reply with what the next responsible step would be, whether or not you hire us.
Until the screening tool is live, this is a short intake form. Prefer to talk first? Say so in the form and we call you.
Sources and dates
- ieComfort, llc Capabilities Statement, 2024 (company history, certifications, registrations, credentials).
- W. Harris and N. Maldeis, "Building a Business Case for Going Green," Facilities Manager, May/June 2011, pp. 23–25.
- ieComfort identity statement, July 16, 2026.
- Last reviewed October 28, 2026. Certificate numbers marked in yellow are pending confirmation.