Technology & Innovation
Scaling Climate Tech and Opening New Markets for Innovation
$2T–$3T
in capital needed annually to meet 1.5°C
13%
only 13% of 46 critical solutions on track
20–40
years for climatetech innovation to reach scale
We Must
Accelerate clean tech commercialization
Debottleneck investment capital
Nurture nascent markets
RMI Will
Orchestrate a community of entrepreneurs, leading corporations, and financiers to scale innovation faster.
Assemble a pipeline of early stage, venture, and growth capital to support hardware-related technologies; streamline access to support required innovations.
Develop business cases and align regional stakeholders for critical technologies; partner with entrepreneurs to assemble replicable breakthrough demonstrations.
RMI is unlocking the rapid innovation, deployment, and market adoption of critical climate technologies at scale.
Market Levers
Technology
Accelerate new climate tech development
Finance
Funnel investment into critical tech, capital-intensive demonstrations
Business Models
Build new markets
Policy
Unlock and make new markets
What We Do
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Third Derivative
An accelerator that aligns investors, corporations, and market experts with startups to commercialize climate innovations.
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Research & Analysis
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Article
Maximizing Europe’s Green Hydrogen Supply
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Article
Green Hydrogen on an S-curve: Fast, Beneficial, and Inevitable
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Article
Hydrogen Reality Check: Green Hydrogen Can Scale This Decade
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Article
Tackling Investment Risks to Accelerate Green Hydrogen Deployment in the EU
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Article
Hydrogen Reality Check: All “Clean Hydrogen” Is Not Equally Clean
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Hydrogen Reality Check #1: Hydrogen Is Not a Significant Warming Risk
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Story
Clean Energy 101: The Colors of Hydrogen
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Story
Reality Check: Greener, Friendlier Alternatives Exist for Rare Minerals in Batteries
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Article
COP26 Made Clear That the World Is Ready for Green Hydrogen
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Report
Fueling the Transition: Accelerating Cost-Competitive Green Hydrogen
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Article
Hydrogen Policy Assumes Natural Gas Prices Are Stable. They’re Not
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Article
Policy Priorities to Spur the Green Hydrogen Economy
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Growing Gigawatts of Green Hydrogen
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Article
Batteries Spark Biden’s Infrastructure and Jobs Promise
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Article
Global Cooling Prize: A Pathway to Net-Zero Residential Cooling by 2050
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Article
Climate: Where Technology, Infrastructure, and Policy Meet
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News
RMI Relaunches to Transform Energy on a Global Scale, Building on Nearly 40 Years of Analysis, Insight, and Market Innovation
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News
World’s green hydrogen leaders unite to drive 50-fold scale-up in six years
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Article
Technology Disruption in the Global Steel Industry
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News
Rocky Mountain Institute and IKEA Foundation Partner to Power Rural Communities with Renewable Energy in Ethiopia
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Article
Could Power Sector Demand Scale US Hydrogen 100X?
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News
Puerto Rico Clean Energy Project Launches First Five Initiatives on Anniversary of Hurricane Maria
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News
XENDEE and Rocky Mountain Institute Expand Strategic Partnership on Climate Alignment
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News
GREENMAP AND RMI Collaborate to Support Governments of Developing Countries
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News
Global Green Bank Design Platform Addressing Climate Solutions