Digging Deep Into Thermal Energy Networks

Transformative Strategies Consulting and Common Spark Consulting are conducting research and interviews with environmental and energy justice organizations, energy democracy organizations, community-based organizations actively pursuing or considering Thermal Energy Networks (TENs), TENs practitioners, and local governments in order to develop:

• A public-facing landscape analysis of existing TENs policies and implementation efforts across the country relative to their approaches for centering equity, justice and community needs and empowering local decision-making authority; and

• A private recommendations report for philanthropic funders on where grants are needed to help shape the trajectory of equitable, community-centered TENs in the coming years based on these findings.

Common Spark is leading the environmental justice and equity components of this landscape analysis, including interviewee outreach, in-depth interview administration, and analysis and synthesis of findings.