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Corporate Engagement
Driving and Scaling Private Sector Impact
Ways of Working: Pathways to Partnership
Strategic Consulting and Insights
We partner directly with companies to co-develop strategies and solutions, including decarbonizing supply chains, designing infrastructure, and optimizing the clean energy grid. We offer personalized solutions and guidance to solve tricky challenges in corporate energy transitions.
Market-Led Collaborations
Through coalitions like our Virtual Power Plant Partnership, ZEROgrid, and the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance, we unite and convene corporations to strengthen markets through aggregated demand, collective action, advocacy, and powerful learning opportunities.
Philanthropic Partnerships
To drive system-level impacts that shift the future of energy, we need bold partners who support our mission. RMI is powered by generous donors, including corporate philanthropies leading the energy transition.
Stories of Impact: How Our Partners are Driving Solutions and Achieving Results
From Cisco’s smart office tower in New York City to a fossil-free Netflix studio in Albuquerque, RMI explores how companies are embracing the modern energy infrastructure, AI-driven insights, and clean technologies that are transforming the way businesses operate. Leaders from CBRE, Schneider Electric, Netflix, and Cisco share their testimonies for why they are transforming their energy systems.
RMI, with support from FedEx, launched GridUp, a groundbreaking tool that equips utilities, cities, and businesses with the data they need to plan for EV charging demands with precision and confidence. By forecasting energy needs, GridUp helps identify where and when power will be needed most, enabling proactive, cost-effective grid investments.
In 2023, RMI, Google Nest, General Motors, and other partners combined forces to launch the Virtual Power Plant Partnership. This collaboration brings together industry stakeholders to drive collective action and opportunities to shape the market and policy landscape for virtual power plants to thrive and scale.
RMI partnered with National Grid to develop a first-of-its-kind blueprint for understanding fast-charging infrastructure along highway corridors in the Northeast United States. Leveraging RMI’s advanced analytics and data insights, this report empowers utilities to forecast demand, plan infrastructure, and deliver reliable, cost-effective charging solutions.
Amazon partnered with RMI to signal industry demand for low-emissions steel with the Sustainable Steel Buyers Platform. This initiative will help Amazon meet its carbon reduction targets and drive demand for more sustainable commodities. RMI and Amazon’s collaboration is one example of how we’re working to drive opportunities for corporations to decarbonize their supply chains and engage in industry-led solution development.
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Insights: RMI’s latest research for business leaders across sectors
How Power Couples Can Help the United States Win the Global AI Race
RMI’s most-read report of the year shows how co-locating clean energy with existing gas plants can meet over 50 GW of new data center load. It’s a smarter, faster way to meet AI-driven demand growth without compromising reliability or affordability.
Impact Accounting Methodology for Building Construction
This new framework enables companies to calculate and report Scope 3 emissions from building projects to prioritize efforts to reduce embodied carbon with low-carbon products from high-impact material categories.
Unlocking First-of-a-Kind Projects Through Clean Industrial Hubs
This report highlights lessons from our work with 18 first-of-a-kind projects in Texas and California, half of which reached a final investment decision, more than double the global average.
Seizing the Industrial Carbon Removal Opportunity
This report lays out how companies can lead on carbon removal by leveraging process synergies and shared infrastructure to open new markets, generate revenue, and stay ahead of regulatory shifts, all while advancing net-zero goals.
Key Initiatives Accelerating Private Sector Action
As RMI’s collaborative climate tech ecosystem and start-up accelerator,
Third Derivative drives innovation, commercialization, and scale for early tech companies.
SABA accelerates the transition to net-zero aviation through collective action.
The SSBP brings together ambitious corporations in steel-intensive sectors like technology, manufacturing, and construction, and helps them translate ambitious commitments into real purchasing potential.
RMI is working with partners to chart a path toward a low-emissions future by pushing for supply-side emissions cuts, demand-side disruption, and market activation.
RMI is accelerating the use of low-carbon cement and concrete through 4 key pillars of work: demand-creation, supply-side decarbonization roadmaps and technical support, policy and regulation, and innovation and finance
Our Team
Erin Callahan
Corporate Engagement Director
ecallahan@rmi.org
Madeline Robbins
Corporate Engagement Manager
madeline.robbins@rmi.org
Emma Benninghoff
Corporate Engagement Lead
emma.benninghoff@rmi.org
Jardine Wall
Corporate Engagement Manager
awall@rmi.org
Linda Jiroušková
Senior Corporate Engagement Manager
ljirouskova@rmi.org
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