TAS Energy had its beginnings in the early 1980s. The future founder of TAS, Tom Pierson, managed the Industrial Division for Trane in Houston. During that time, Tom specialized in providing industrial chillers and controls for process and petrochemical applications. It was Pierson who lead the team that developed the first gas turbine inlet air-cooling systems in the mid to late 1980s. These early systems were composed of modified chillers for use in outdoor power plant environments - but the power plant contractors were still constructing the entire system in the field in a traditional HVAC configuration.
