ACCA 2025 Annual Report: wins, training, and growth
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ACCA’s 2025 Annual Report is here, covering the fiscal year from August 1, 2024, through July 31, 2025. The theme is impact, and the report makes the case across advocacy, training, standards, membership, and events. Here’s a look at what stood out.
A second gold award
ACCA earned its second Power of Associations Gold Award from the American Society of Association Executives, this time for an A2L refrigerant safety training program that equipped more than 8,200 technicians and contractors with critical safety knowledge and protocols. When the summer 2025 refrigerant shortage hit, ACCA also stood up the R-454B Resource Center to cut through misinformation and help contractors make smart decisions fast.
Advocacy wins for contractors
ACCA’s new Government Relations Committee gathered more than 1,100 comments and votes from contractors to set four federal priority issues for the 119th Congress, spanning workforce, fuel and technology choice, Quality Installation, and refrigerant transitions. The One Big Beautiful Bill brought real wins, including 529 accounts that can now fund skilled trades credentialing, expanded Pell Grants for short-term career education, and a permanent 199A small business deduction. It also brought losses worth tracking, including the elimination of the 25C, 25D, 179D, and 45L efficiency tax incentives.
Training that gets results
The award-winning A2L safety training reached more than 10,000 technicians and contractors nationwide, with 97% reporting more confidence handling A2L refrigerants and 94% adopting new safety measures directly from the program. ACCA also launched two new programs to fill industry gaps: ACCA L.E.A.D., a 10-week leadership development program for emerging leaders, and a live virtual Commercial Sales Training Series covering the full sales process.
Standards, membership, and connection
On the technical side, ACCA advanced its standards leadership, initiating the ANSI reaffirmation process for Manual J and QIvp, moving Manual D into a second round of public review, and proposing a new Quality Installation specification, ACCA 5 QI. Membership kept its momentum too, with combined gold and silver membership growing 42%, from 173 to 245, while dues held steady for a second straight year. And ACCA 2025 in Greater Austin brought owners and decision-makers together with more than 130 exhibitors across sales, finance, field service, staffing, and more.
Read the full report
These highlights only scratch the surface of a year built on member grit and ACCA’s work on their behalf. Read the full 2025 Annual Report to see the complete picture, including the financial report, committee snapshot, board of directors, and the partners who help make this impact possible.
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