ERT Statement of Qualifications

Energy suppliers and users today face challenges that are redefining the industry. Higher energy prices, increased environmental awareness, tougher regulations, and intense global competition for products and services call for innovative solutions that turn your growing economic and environmental pressures into sources of competitive advantage.

For more than two decades, the world’s leading energy providers and users, including utilities, product manufacturers, technology developers, and local, state, and national governments, have turned to RMI for guidance. Our comprehensive, integrative, objective approach examines and addresses the complete set of dynamics in the rapidly changing energy marketplace.

This broad perspective, coupled with a depth of expertise, enables us to devise tailored strategies that can position your organization for a more secure, profitable, and environmentally constructive future.

RMI’s Energy & Resources Team (ERT) advises clients how to avoid capital and energy costs, manage risks, increase revenues by deploying new technologies, and respond to new market opportunities. Experts in the full spectrum of energy technology, markets, and policy, we show how to plan for profitability while making evolving environmental regulations burdensome only to your competitors.

We provide an integrated suite of solutions that fit within your current business structure. These services are analytical and practical, and include energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed energy strategies.

We help our clients understand how distributed and renewable resources can provide quantifiable benefits to reduce financial risk, enhance electric grid economics, and decrease carbon emissions.

We show clients how to optimize energy reliability through demand response, load management, and other methods that improve service quality and can dramatically cut electricity costs.

The climate is changing — not just the earth’s temperature, but the business climate as well. Industries are facing mandatory limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG), and companies must prepare for inevitable regulation and carbon market trading. Success requires new thinking and new capabilities.

At RMI, the best solutions for environmental problems come with economic advantages. We show our clients how the right approach to the emerging carbon market and emissions reduction strategies can be profitable and a competitive differentiator. The process we use for analysis, screening, and economic prioritization of reduction measures will lead systematically to financial strategies and implementation plans that will cost-effectively reduce GHG emissions.

Our client-tailored portfolios focus first on implementing direct emissions reductions, including profitable efficiency improvements and alternative energy sources to help our clients further reduce both emissions and energy costs. We also recommend carbon offset investments offering the best economic performance and risk, regulatory compliance and applicability to the Kyoto Protocol, verifiable environmental benefits, and positive social impacts.

RMI has been instrumental in shaping the world’s energy landscape by serving as an objective and influential voice in the electricity and fuels industries. Our thought leadership includes pathfinding research on oil independence, renewable energy technologies, distributed energy, and resource planning. Our innovations have profoundly influenced the energy sector, helped corporations to change how they do business, and pushed governments to adopt key enabling policy reforms.