Renewable Thermal Collaborative
The Renewable Thermal Collaborative (RTC) is the only global, buyer-led coalition focused on decarbonizing thermal energy with renewable solutions. The RTC’s work is focused across the intersecting issues of technology, market development, and policy.
RTC Members represent more than $6 trillion in market capitalization and include companies and institutions across a diverse range of industries, including leaders in the automotive, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, paper, healthcare, higher education, building materials, and technology sectors.
The RTC also includes a growing network of Solutions Providers including renewable thermal technology developers, project financiers, consultants, utilities, and more.
RTC Summit 2025
Join us October 15-17 in Washington D.C. for the premier event connecting leaders across the renewable thermal energy landscape.
Renewable Thermal Vision Report
Finding a Path Forward for Decarbonizing Thermal Energy in the U.S. Industrial Sector
The Thermal Opportunity
Energy used for heating and cooling comprises approximately 50 percent of total global final energy demand and 39 percent of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. In the United States, heating and cooling account for more than 25 percent of total energy use across residential, commercial, and industrial sectors at a cost of $270 billion annually.
The RTC collaborates with its Members and Solutions Providers to accelerate industrial decarbonization by identifying and addressing ways to overcome the technology, policy, and market challenges that large thermal energy users face.
The RTC convenes Members and Solutions Providers regularly in focused workstreams, including electrification, geothermal, green hydrogen, industrial heat pumps, market-based instruments, policy, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, and thermal energy storage.
of global final energy is comprised of thermal energy use
of GHG emissions can be attributed to heating and cooling
of total energy use in the U.S. comes from thermal energy
spent annually on heating and cooling costs in the U.S.
