2050 Partners helps clients shorten the path to carbon neutrality while maximizing return on investment. We help clients shape regulations and policies, drive energy innovation, and demonstrate energy leadership.
Meeting ambitious decarbonization goals is challenging in an increasingly complex regulatory, policy, and operational landscape. We provide the expertise to navigate these challenges with:
Data-driven insights
to inform decision-making and optimize strategies.
Stakeholder engagement
to build consensus and drive collaboration.
Actionable strategies
tailored to each client’s unique needs, ensuring real-world impact.
• Data-driven insights to inform decision-making and optimize strategies. • Stakeholder engagement to build consensus and drive collaboration. • Actionable strategies tailored to each client’s unique needs, ensuring real-world impact.
By bridging policy, innovation, and implementation, we empower organizations to lead in the clean energy transition while delivering measurable benefits to their customers and communities.
WHO WE SERVE
UTILITIES ADVANCING CODES & STANDARDS
Overcome the challenge of integrating codes and standards into broader energy efficiency portfolios to drive measurable energy savings and compliance.
2050 Partners brings together the right experts to tackle complex resource efficiency and resilience challenges. Our in-house team has deep expertise across a wide range of policy and technical areas, and we leverage a network of over 100 subject matter experts to provide specialized insights. We assemble and manage the best team for each project—ensuring our clients receive tailored, high-impact solutions.
2050 Partners works with utilities to support California building codes and national model codes. From California’s state codes, to national model codes, we are well-versed in all things EV codes.
CalBEM: California Building Energy Modeling
2050 Partners works closely with many individuals across the building energy modeling discipline to facilitate a robust California stakeholder initiative, engaging experts across building energy modeling, design, and code compliance.
Plan and facilitate annual symposium.
Support and facilitate three technical working groups.
Minnesota Codes and Standards Roadmap
2050 Partners developed a Minnesota Codes and Standards roadmap for the Minnesota Department of Commerce on how to participate in and claim savings.
Established and led an advisory group comprising utility representatives, agency officials, and industry experts
Analyzed existing policy frameworks and presented viable implementation strategies
California Energy Efficiency Coordinating Committee
2050 Partners served as the first facilitator of the California Energy Efficiency Coordinating Committee (CAEECC) created under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission.
Planned and facilitated 30+ public strategic planning discussions for the new 10-year “rolling cycle” for the California energy efficiency portfolio.
Collated and tracked the resolution of thousands of individual public comments on the program administrator’s 10-year business plans, filed in 2017.
Implemented stakeholder engagement, informal negotiations, meeting documentation, and development of supporting documents.
HVAC Technology Research
Since 2017, 2050 Partners has served as the project manager overseeing field research to better understand advanced HVAC technology performance in nonresidential buildings for our client, a large provider of electric and natural gas service in California.
Managed field research for our client’s program for assessing potential future building codes and standards.
Worked alongside subcontractors to install monitoring equipment at eight sites.
Analyzed data collected over 18 months and aggregated into a total of nine reports consisting of five case studies, two targeted analysis reports, one field assessment, and one final report.
Hawaii Energy Efficiency Manager
2050 Partners helps manage Hawaii’s statewide energy efficiency portfolio implementation and evaluation consultants.
Provides day-to-day consultant contract oversight
Contributes portfolio and program design guidance to address changing industry and market trends
Conducts research and analysis regarding the performance of Hawaii Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (EEPS) Program
Electric Vehicle Codes and Standards
2050 Partners works with utilities to support California building codes and national model codes. From California’s state codes, to national model codes, we are well-versed in all things EV codes.
CalBEM: California Building Energy Modeling
2050 Partners works closely with many individuals across the building energy modeling discipline to facilitate a robust California stakeholder initiative, engaging experts across building energy modeling, design, and code compliance.
Plan and facilitate annual symposium.
Support and facilitate three technical working groups.
