Areas Of Focus

Acadia Center is pursuing reforms in four key areas that will work simultaneously to drive a profound and much-needed transformation in the energy sector.

Advance Climate Solutions

Mining a breadth of regionally-specific data sets for untapped, long-term solutions across industries and agencies.

Electrification of Buildings and Transportation

Building coalitions, backed by reliable data, to push for consumer-friendly reforms to the two largest-emitting sectors.

Clean Energy Transition

Finding structural solutions in grid reform and utility innovation, and going beyond gas to level the playing field for clean energy.

Changing the Climate Conversation

Supporting consumers and communities in a just transition with engaging materials that re-frame debates and amplify solutions.

The Northeast and Beyond

Coordinating across the states and sectors.

Multistate Cooperation

At its core, Acadia Center is a regional organization – one that develops deep local relationships in the states where we work, while maintaining an overarching regional perspective.

The Northeast and Beyond

Coordinating across the states and sectors.

State & Community Solutions

At a time when the federal government has abdicated action on climate, the power of regions, states and communities to lead is more important than ever.

How We Work

We believe that we are most effective when we work at both a state and regional level. In our state work we are embedded in local advocacy and politics, and many of our state leads have lived and worked their whole careers in the state they represent.

Projects

Acadia Center participates in multi-state efforts such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), and RESPECT (Reforming Energy System Planning for Equity and Climate Transformation) to transition our region into the clean energy future.

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Acadia Center participates in multi-state efforts such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to transition our region into the clean energy future.

Transportation and Climate Initiative

Envisioning an improved regional transportation system that connects everyone, including those in underserved urban, suburban, and rural areas - with clean, reliable and accessible mass transit.

RESPECT (Reforming Energy System Planning for Equity and Climate Transformation)

Acadia Center’s RESPECT proposal outlines key reforms to utility planning processes to ensure that utility investments and decision-making are aligned with state goals to address climate pollution, further environmental justice, and lower consumer costs. RESPECT focuses on achieving change at the scale and speed of the climate crisis by putting public policy decisions squarely on the shoulders of state decision-makers and re-focusing the role of the utility on what it does best—operating a reliable power and heat system and serving customers.