The Renewable Energy team strives to reduce carbon emissions, prevent environmental degradation, create economic opportunity, and equitably engage stakeholders to achieve community co-benefits. We use our skills in facilitation, policy, research, technical assistance, and deliberate collaboration to create the social and market conditions for accelerated renewable energy deployment that achieves national, state, and local decarbonization goals. We work with all levels of government, businesses, universities, and other nonprofit organizations to decarbonize the power sector and, by extension, the transportation and building sectors. Our goal is to remove barriers to accelerated renewable deployment by:

• resolving local and state siting barriers embedded in existing regulation and policy;
• making environmental and land use permitting transparent and predictable;
• expanding integration of local renewable resources with building and transportation systems; and
• decarbonizing industry and agriculture by exploring new renewable applications like carbon-free hydrogen.

Geography

Our work is national in scope, though most of our projects have a particular focus in the Midwest.