RMI has developed a diverse mix of powerful tools to improve the deployment of select policies and clean technologies. Explore them here.
The OCI⁺ quantifies and compares greenhouse gas emissions intensities from global oil and gas assets. Use this web tool’s interactive features to see where GHGs are emitted and investigate ways to reduce life-cycle emissions intensity from production, refining and petrochemical processing, and gathering, storage, and transport, and end uses.
WasteMAP serves as a comprehensive tool for aggregating, mapping, and analyzing waste methane emissions. WasteMAP also hosts a decision support tool and a library of valuable resources for methane abatement, helping decision makers implement waste management practices that reduce methane emissions in their communities.
The Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA) is an open-source and free of charge software application that enables users to measure the alignment of financial portfolios with climate scenarios as well as analyze specific companies.
The SAFc Registry connects corporate consumers, air transport providers, logistics providers, and clean fuel producers in a globally accessible platform that encourages the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through the purchase and use of SAF certificates. It enables consistency, transparency and auditability of aviation-related emissions reduction claims to build trust, scale SAFc uptake, and signal strong demand for new SAF supply.
This sophisticated, user-friendly calculator enables energy professionals – contractors, advisors, and analysts – to assess the economic and environmental impacts of green home and transportation upgrades.
Get the DIRT on industrial decarbonization incentives. This tool can help project developers, industrial companies, and investors discover the state and federal financial incentives that may be applicable to their heavy industry and transport projects.
The Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) is a free open-source model for estimating the environmental, economic, and human health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. Use the national model or 48 state models to test out energy policy scenarios.
Using this tool, every metro area in the US can find the clean energy industries most feasible for them to transition into based on their existing economic makeup and industrial capacities. Further, by identifying priority industries, each metro can then use this tool to identify workforce occupations where there are likely to be skills shortages in their region and begin creating workforce development strategies to overcome these potential constraints.
Navigating hundreds of federal funding opportunities can be overwhelming. Our funding tool, America’s Federal Funding Opportunities and Resources for Decarbonization (AFFORD), is designed to help you identify, compare, and prioritize federal funding, tax credits, and other incentives. This free tool is primarily intended to streamline public, non-profit, and community efforts to increase understanding of eligible funding and incentives that are relevant to your project, goals, and community.
RMI’s Smarter MODES Calculator quantifies the state-by-state economic, safety, climate, and air quality benefits of strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled that expand transportation options and complement vehicle electrification.
The Satellite Point source Emissions Completeness Tool (SPECT) is an interactive platform that enables users to compare and contrast the capabilities of satellite technologies — both existing and planned — according to a metric of completeness. Completeness refers to the ability to detect global methane super-emitters, or large point sources of methane greater than 25 kg/hr. The metric allows for a more direct comparison between satellites based on the percentage of high-emission methane sources they are able to detect.
The SHIFT (State Highway Induced Frequency of Travel) calculator enables users to estimate long-run (i.e., after 5 to 10 years) induced vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and emissions impacts from capacity expansions of large roadways in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) or urbanized counties, based on existing lane mileage and vehicle miles traveled data from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
RMI’s Assessment Calculator for Cities simplifies the process of assessing the impact of mode-shift from electric bikes (e-bikes) for policymakers, transportation officials, advocates, and other interested stakeholders.
The Utility Transition Hub provides data relevant to their process in the energy transition, including the amount of resources they have by type, emissions levels, operations, finances, customers & community, Policies & Regulations, Comparisons, and Climate Alignment.
Optimus is a modeling tool that can be used to measure the techno-financial implications of different utility resource plans. It can be used for a single project, or for an entire portfolio of projects, with time horizons that span decades.
RMI’s Economic Dispatch Dashboard helps utility industry policymakers and stakeholders track uneconomic operation of coal plants and impacts on affordability and emissions.
The IRA Opportunity Map currently shows the system savings and clean energy deployment opportunities available using RMI's "clean repowering" strategy for resource deployment.
The PIMs Database is the most comprehensive index of emergent performance incentive mechanisms in the United States. These regulatory tools are used to incentivize desired outcomes from utilities across the United States, and are part of the toolkit for Performance Based Regulation.
RMI's Utility-Enabled DERs Hub aims to demonstrate and accelerate how utility-enabled DERs can enhance distribution network flexibility and provide supplementary services to the national grid. The DER Hub offers templates for contract agreements, financial models, and project implementation plans, as well as case studies and other resources for utilities and developers to fast-track project implementation timelines and increase data sharing and transparency. Through collaboration with local partners, RMI intends to scale and replicate successful approaches within Nigeria and across the region.
The Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping Tool (S.A.M.) Tool is an innovative, user-friendly, interactive, web-based stakeholder analysis and mapping tool which simplifies the process of creating easily digestible, at-a-glance visualizations of complex stakeholder relationships and localized power dynamics for projects in all sectors, communities, and regions, an especially important aspect of effective and inclusive community engagement and stakeholder management for the clean energy transition.
Engage & Act is a platform that allows investors and other key stakeholders to easily explore the opportunities and risks investor-owned utilities face in the transition to a reliable, affordable, and clean energy system. It provides forward-looking data and RMI expertise that answers the questions: Which utilities say they’re leading the way? Which utilities are actually leading the way? How have utilities’ plans changed over time?
