Our Five-Year Plan
Rocky Mountain Institute transforms global energy use to create a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon future. That is our mission. That is our passion. And every day, every one of our 185 team members works tirelessly to achieve it.
Why? Because just like you, we want to attain for our families and loved ones all that the energy revolution makes possible: climate protection, clean air and water, reduced poverty, economic growth, better security, and resilient energy systems.
The increased urgency of climate change and opportune changes in the energy world make achieving our mission more important and more attainable than ever. That’s why, with your support, we are embarking on an innovative journey to grow our impact and become the most influential energy transition organization in the world.
This journey is guided by our five-year plan, which grew out of a yearlong process of self-examination, detailed market analysis, and interviews with more than 30 thought leaders. The plan describes the transformation that we are making — a transformation rooted in our 35-year-strong tradition of excellence and focused on the future and the vastly larger role that RMI must play.
To achieve our plan, we will augment our “think-and-do” approach with a scaling commitment, both in the ways we engage in changing the energy system and in the scope of our operations. We will focus our efforts on:
- Working on immediate solutions that drive long-term impact
- Increasing our influence on top-level decision makers to increase our overall influence in the system
- Increasing our efficiency and effectiveness by upgrading our management model, financial management, operational systems, and institutional capacity
- Expanding to additional regions around the world beyond the U.S., China, and Africa
- Increasing our market participation to spur competitive innovation and get much-needed solutions adopted faster
This last task we will do by supporting purpose-built organizations called market affiliates. Market affiliates allow us to scale impact beyond what we can achieve within our core structure and to incubate ideas that the market is not moving on, offering significant strategic value to the broader set of RMI activities.
Today, with our new plan and your help, we resolve to do even more, even faster, to address the urgent issue of climate change and capture the many additional economic, environmental, and security benefits associated with the clean energy transition.
