Corporate Engagement

Driving and Scaling Private Sector Impact

At RMI, we work with companies to move from ambition to action and solve complex energy challenges with market-led solutions. We serve as implementers, conveners, advisors, and collaborators to help companies deliver and scale market-driven solutions across the energy system. Work with us — connect with our team today.

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

RMI & FedEx: Powering the Future of EV Charging with GridUp

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.

RMI, Google, & General Motors: Creating a Coalition to Scale Solutions

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 & National Grid: Creating a Roadmap for Meeting Future EV Charging Demand

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.

RMI & Amazon: Advancing Near-Zero Emissions Steel

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.

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.