Affordability Hub

As people throughout the United States worry about the cost of energy, it’s time to solve the problem.

Regulators can design fair, forward-looking cost allocation to fund proactive grid upgrades and accelerate equitable electrification.

This toolkit offers more than two dozen resources to help legislators, staff, and advocates identify and advance effective electricity affordability solutions.

This report outlines 10 key strategies to support building decarbonization. It is accompanied by a resource library that shares resources for regulators from commissions across the U.S., nonprofits, and media that expand on the themes and strategies introduced in our report.

A report on how state and local governments can reduce costs, commutes, and climate pollution by prioritizing investments in clean vehicles, transit, and multi-modal transportation systems

A report detailing US utility disconnections and outlining reform options for public utility commissions to protect households and reduce shutoffs.

Eight states are starting to phase out gas line extension allowances, saving up to $750 million in utility bills annually.

RMI report shows how proactive grid investments can cut costs, boost reliability, and prepare utilities for rising EV charging demand.

Sixteen regulatory levers to help regulators, consumer advocates, and other stakeholders support utility cost-efficiency while meeting future energy demands.

RMI's Energy Poverty Policy Simulator can help lawmakers, regulators, and energy sector stakeholders chart a path to end energy poverty.

Four reasons why it makes sense for homes still heating with oil or propane to switch to heat pumps and how policymakers can help make it happen.

An analysis debunking claims that clean energy causes rising electricity prices, showing fossil fuel volatility and wildfire costs as primary drivers, while renewables help maintain affordability.

A service line non-pipeline alternative program can reduce utility costs, support electrification, and give customers more choice in their energy future.

A handbook for utility regulators that details strategies for controlling the cost of fuel.

Protecting vulnerable utility customers through proven programs reduces energy bill debt and reduces system-wide costs.

This report by RMI and Synapse Energy Economics helps utility stakeholders design multiyear rate plans to ensure they support cost containment.

Designing large load tariffs with strong safeguards can reduce the risk of cost shifting, but adoption of them varies.

As electricity prices rise, we offer recommendations for governors seeking to provide near-term relief for customers and lower system costs in the long run.

This sophisticated, user-friendly calculator enables energy professionals – contractors, advisors, and analysts – to assess the economic and environmental impacts of green home and transportation upgrades.

RMI’s Smarter MODES Calculator quantifies the state-by-state economic, safety, climate, and air quality benefits of strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled that expand transportation options and complement vehicle electrification.

EPPS is a tool designed to estimate the costs and bill impacts of a suite of energy poverty policies that states can leverage to tackle the most critical harms of the affordability crisis.

A report on total direct energy expenditures by households and how it evolves over time.

We have the opportunity to meet nearly all our buildings’ energy needs with electricity from an increasingly low-carbon electric grid, eliminating direct fossil fuel use in buildings.

RMI’s Assessment Calculator for Cities simplifies the process of assessing the impact of mode-shift from electric bikes (e-bikes) for policymakers, transportation officials, advocates, and other interested stakeholders.

The PIMs Database is the most comprehensive index of emergent performance incentive mechanisms in the United States. These regulatory tools are used to incentivize desired outcomes from utilities across the United States, and are part of the toolkit for Performance Based Regulation.

RMI’s Economic Dispatch Dashboard helps utility industry policymakers and stakeholders track uneconomic operation of coal plants and impacts on affordability and emissions.

An interactive platform that helps users make data-driven decisions on energy goals and program planning by improving their understanding of low-income and moderate-income household energy characteristics.

A hub compiling ACEEE's research on energy burdens.

A hub for research from Indiana University on the long-term, persistent challenges of energy justice, as well as the short-term, acute challenges.

The Docket Opportunity Tracker supports stakeholders as they navigate utility dockets in state regulatory proceedings. It helps these stakeholders easily plan when regulatory proceedings will occur based on adjustable geographic, utility, and timeframe parameters so that they can better allocate resources and prioritize their work.

The Utility Transition Hub™ Portal is an interactive data portal that allows users to track, quantify, and understand the less visible forces—investments, operations, policies, and regulations—driving future outcomes in the electricity sector.

Engage & Act is a platform that allows investors and other key stakeholders to easily explore the opportunities and risks investor-owned utilities face in the transition to a reliable, affordable, and clean energy system. It provides forward-looking data and RMI expertise that answers the questions: Which utilities say they’re leading the way? Which utilities are actually leading the way? How have utilities’ plans changed over time?