RMI’s Community Benefits Catalog
Examples of meaningful local benefits to include in federally funded energy projects…
On this page, learn how to maximize benefits from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and related federal policies and incentives.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the greatest investment in US economic growth and climate action in our lifetimes. Together with related bills, its benefits will be far-reaching, including nationwide economic stimulus, cleaner air, improved health, new jobs, progress toward climate goals, and more. Across the board, these equity-focused incentives are designed to ensure benefits flow to the communities that need them most. And yet, these incentives’ sheer scale and complexity can slow adoption, raising the risk of missing key deadlines.
To cut through this complexity, in this section, we’ve highlighted the opportunities and how to access them.
But to maximize the benefits to the economy, health, and climate from these investments, rapid implementation is imperative. It's now up to state and local policymakers, businesses, nonprofits, utilities, and everyday consumers to seize the opportunity and implement the IRA.
In this section, we've assembled more detailed information and guidance to effectively pursue and apply IRA investments across multiple programs, recipients, and sectors.
The good news is that many states, cities, businesses, and other stakeholders are already accessing this funding and building out clean energy projects. While federal authorities continue to roll out guidance on funding, projects that were in the pipeline are already benefiting and new projects are seeing their design, development, and deployment speed up.
To document this progress, below, we are collecting case studies and examples of successful IRA implementations.
Examples of meaningful local benefits to include in federally funded energy projects…
States’ Priority Climate Action Plans could result in 7 percent less climate pollution from the United States by 2030…
A review of the 47 state Priority Climate Action Plans submitted to the EPA as part of the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program.
Boosted by clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, a net-zero energy public safety center in McFarland, Wisconsin, is benefitting firefighters, police officers, and the wider community.
Almost every state has written a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) to take advantage of Inflation Reduction Act funding from the CPRG program. Here are the numbers documenting their climate ambition.
This RMI investment expert travels the country with his passion for clean energy and economic development.
Introduction In recent years, state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) across the United States have made progress to reduce the embodied carbon impact of concrete construction by deploying high-performance concrete mixes that reduce the most emissions-intensive…
RMI conducted a bottom-up carbon analysis of the US building stock to determine the relative operational emissions for each segment.
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A toolkit for electric utility regulators to ensure utility resource plans incorporate the opportunities presented by federal funding.
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