History

May 1979 Established Hanwa Nessui Ind. Co., Ltd., origin of TESS Engineering
January 1992 Changed name to TESS Engineering Co., Ltd.
November 1999 Opened 24 Hours Operation Monitoring System
July 2000 Acquired ISO14001 - Environmental Management System
February 2006 Gas Engine driven 70 MW Co-Generation Power Plant
Started O & M total service business
February 2007 Registered in "FY2006 Voluntary Participating Domestic Discharge Amount Trading System" promoted by Ministry of Environment(including 2007)
December 2008 Participated in Trial Discharge Amount Trading Scheme
May 2009 Registered as company granted "Green Power Certificate" - Renewable Energy Certificate
July 2009 Masayuki Ishiwaki assumed Chairman, and Hideo Ishiwaki assumed President of the company
Established TESS Techno Service Co., Ltd.
Selected as trustee for "FY2009 Domestic Credit System - Soft Supporting Business" promoted by METI (including 2010)
February 2010 Applied "Power Producer and Supplier" to METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
2011 Contributed for construction of captive power plants at various factories and offices to cover the consequent power shortage by Great East Japan Earthquake
2012 Executed many EPC contracts on solar and biomass power plants as FIT (Feed-in Tariff System) enacted in Japan
March 2012 Established Intelligent Solar Systems Co., Ltd.
March 2013 Established Prime Solar LLC
June 2013 Strated operation of "TESS Tokushima-Anan Solar Power Station" as own power business
Developing own power plants throughout Japan
April 2014 Established TESS Asset Management LLC
June 2014 Established T&M Solar LLC
December 2014 Acquired ISO9001 - Quality Management System
Acquired ISO27001 - Information Security Management System
November 2015 Registered as electricity retailer
April 2017 Accumulated construction job records of Solar Power Stations based on FIT (Feed-in Tariff) exceed more than 430MW
July 2017 Hideo Ishiwaki assumed Representative Director and Chairman, and Toshihiro Takasaki assumed Representative Director and President.
April 2018 Company shifts to holding company structure,with TESS Holdings Co., Ltd. as parent company
March 2020 PT PTEC Research and Development established to conduct research and development in biomass fuel manufacturing
August 2020 VT Utilities Services K.K. established through joint venture with Veolia Japan K.K.
February 2021 Combined generation capacity of renewable energy power plants owned by TESS Group tops 200 MW
April 2021 TESS Holdings lists on Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section(currently Prime Market)
July 2025 Tokyo Branch is renamed Tokyo Head Office, and the company transitions to a dual head office system with the Osaka Head Office.