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Clean Growth Tool
The Clean Growth Tool matches cities and regions across the United States to clean energy industries and technologies. The tool incorporates data on the strengths of each area and the needs of each clean energy industry.
Although every state and city can be economically competitive in clean energy, not every place can be competitive in every industry. The challenge is figuring out what to prioritize and where. That's where the Clean Growth Tool can help. But communities cannot dawdle — the global competition for clean energy investment is already underway and the time to act is now.
The Clean Growth Tool helps policymakers, community leaders, economic development organizations, and industry actors with:
Finding the most feasible clean energy industries for a city or region to grow into, given existing economic capabilities such as workforce size and expertise.
Assessing the job creation potential of these industries.
Identifying workforce occupations with skills shortages, to address potential investment constraints.
Evaluating the places that would be well-suited for specific projects.
The Clean Growth Tool helps policymakers, community leaders, economic development organizations, and industry actors with:
The demo video below from RMI's Lachlan Carey walks you through the key functionalities of the Clean Growth Tool.
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Additional Information
The Clean Growth Tool is a collaboration between RMI and the Brookings Institution Workforce of the Future Initiative. The methodology file for the Clean Growth Tool is available here. Technical questions about the Clean Growth Tool should be directed to cleangrowthtool@rmi.org. Media questions about the Clean Growth Tool should be directed to media@rmi.org.