Policy Overview

What is the RTC Doing?

RTC supports policies to accelerate deployment of affordable and sustainable renewable thermal technologies. Thermal energy users need access to cost-effective, responsibly sourced, renewable and lower-carbon thermal energy solutions, including biomass, biogas,  biomethane, electrification, geothermal, green hydrogen, solar thermal, thermal energy storage, and more.

Our approach is modeled on the success of renewable electricity policies, which helped lower the costs of these technologies and dramatically scale their deployment. RTC supports similar policy tools for renewable thermal, including research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D), financial incentives, technical assistance, accounting for environmental benefits, and renewable standards.

RTC’s work currently prioritizes U.S. federal and state policy. Through briefings, roundtables, and publication of research and analysis, RTC aims to create a widely held bipartisan consensus among federal and state policymakers on the need for policy to cut industrial thermal energy emissions.