Great Plains Institute

Services & Impact

Perhaps nothing impacts our quality of life, economic well-being, and the world our children will inherit more than the way we produce and consume energy. That’s why GPI is working to transform the energy system to achieve a better future by maximizing cost-effective energy efficiency, significantly expanding renewable energy and responsibly deploying advanced technologies to reduce the carbon and environmental footprint of fossil fuels.

We specialize in using consensus-building to discover and implement politically durable solutions to society’s most pressing energy challenges. Our unique and proven approach—Convene. Inform. Agree. Act.—enables us to find and foster common ground where none was thought possible. Rather than focusing on the points of difference among energy stakeholders, we identify areas of agreement and build on those to advance innovation in energy policy, technologies and practices.

Highlights

	Carbon Management: We are leading regional and national efforts with government, industry, labor, and NGOs to achieve the economic, jobs, and environmental benefits of deploying carbon management technologies critical to reaching mid-century decarbonization goals.
	Communities: Cities and communities are critical to creating a better energy system because collectively they are big enough to matter and small enough to make changes quickly. GPI’s programs are designed to assist communities in different ways with all the elements needed to drive change.
	Efficiency: More than 50 percent of the energy produced in the United States is wasted somewhere along the line, from production and distribution to consumption. Our goal is to maximize economy-wide investment in energy efficiency.
	Electricity: We’re working to decarbonize the electricity sector by midcentury through transformative system change to energy markets and infrastructure, utility regulation, and by aligning financial incentives with this goal.
	Transportation & Fuels: By creating fuels and chemicals from renewable sources while electrifying the transportation system we can reduce these emissions by 50-90 percent while also cutting the cost per mile.

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	www.betterenergy.org
	2801 21st Ave S, Suite 220 Minneapolis, MN 55407

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