About the RTC
The Renewable Thermal Collaborative (RTC) is the global coalition of companies, institutions, and governments committed to decarbonizing thermal energy use by scaling up renewable heating and cooling technologies at their facilities. The RTC focuses its work across the intersecting issues of technology, market development, and policy.
The RTC is co-convened by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), David Gardiner & Associates (DGA), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
RTC Members (buy-side) and Solutions Providers (supply-side) are invited to participate in multiple RTC workstreams to:
Identify and Address Barriers
Accelerate solutions
Implement Projects and Policies
Driving Change Across Industries
A Powerful Coalition of Energy Users and Solution Providers
The RTC is a nonprofit organization and was founded in 2017 as an initiative facilitated by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, David Gardiner and Associates, and the World Wildlife Fund.
RTC Members and Solutions Providers include over 130 companies in the US, Europe, and around the world across a diverse range of industries. Sector participation includes leaders in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, paper, healthcare, higher education, building materials, and automotive sectors.
RTC Members include global industrial and institutional energy users representing more than $6 trillion in market capitalization.
The RTC also includes a wide range of solutions providers and experts, including renewable thermal technology developers, project financiers, consultants, utilities, and more.
Our Goals
The RTC is the only global coalition focused exclusively on the decarbonization of thermal energy with renewable solutions. The RTC is a pre-commercial, pre-competitive nonprofit organization and conducts all of its work in compliance with our antitrust guidelines.
Create a community of over 100 Member companies, institutions, and governments committed to its goals by 2030
Enact policies for 30% industrial thermal emission cuts by 2030 and full decarbonization by 2050
Accelerate the adoption of renewable thermal solutions globally
Our Vision
- Identify market barriers to renewable thermal technologies
- Enable the delivery of cost-competitive renewable thermal options
- Improve the marketplace and financing for renewable thermal technologies
- Enact a long-term vision for scaling up renewable thermal technologies in the U.S., Europe, and globally
