The TVA EnergyRight School Uplift Program, co-implemented by TRC since 2020, provides strategic energy management (SEM) training to schools in underserved areas. Through SEM, school staff are engaged and educated on the benefits of energy conservation and renewable energy. The program is currently training over 160 schools in SEM practices, with $7.3 million invested over the next three years.
Learn MoreAdvanced Energy Solutions for a Cleaner Future
Developing future-facing programs that serve communities and customers with clean and equitable energy.
A sustainable and resilient future requires one ingredient above all else — teamwork. At TRC, we bring passion to collaboration. We take pride in partnering with clients on innovative solutions to energy challenges of all sizes and scopes.
With more than 215 active Advanced Energy programs across North America, TRC has offices in almost every state and client relationships that span decades. We manage energy program delivery from demonstration pilots to whole-portfolio implementation, in the commercial, industrial, and residential sectors. Our Advanced Energy programs span the market from energy efficiency to renewables, decarbonization and resiliency. TRC is among the first energy consulting firms to launch programs in emerging fields, including integrated demand side management (IDSM), behind-the-meter storage programs and integration of energy and broadband for utilities.
As the market evolves, we help our partners adapt, navigating changes to the power grid and the regulatory and social climate. We design future-facing programs that help organizations serve their communities and customers with clean and equitable energy, for the benefit of people and the planet.
Embracing the Shift, Together
Our team of more than 700 practitioners, guides each of our clients through every step of the clean energy transition. We deliver solutions from conception, through research, program planning, design, engineering, implementation, customer engagement and continuous improvement.
The Future of Energy
Discover how we’re helping utilities, agencies, municipalities and businesses with visionary energy programs for their customers and communities.
Decarbonization
Decarbonization is accelerating at all levels globally. As a leading consulting firm committed to this transformation, TRC provides environmentally focused and digitally powered solutions to reduce emissions. We partner with government agencies, utilities and businesses from initial planning through design and execution of decarbonization programs. From electrification of vehicles and buildings to energy efficiency to renewables, we are leaders in the movement toward a net-zero energy future.
Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency is the key to making decarbonization work — if we don’t do more with less, our efforts to transition from fossil fuels to electric power will simply shift environmental impacts, without solving them. TRC is an industry veteran in the field of energy efficiency, with decades of experience implementing award-winning energy conservation programs for some of the largest utilities, agencies and power authorities in North America.
Resiliency
As climate change impacts grow every year, threats to public safety and stability escalate. Resilience means knowing infrastructure, resources and communities will prevail amidst disruption. As a leader in resiliency services, TRC is building confidence into client systems for when they need it most. We provide technical consulting services including back-up power and microgrids, helping clients develop and implement resiliency solutions that meet critical societal needs.
Electrification
To help our clients reach their decarbonization goals, TRC offers a spectrum of electrification services that are measurably reducing customers’ dependence on fossil fuels. We plan, design and implement groundbreaking programs to electrify buildings, passenger vehicles, commercial fleets, transport equipment and industrial process equipment. Our comprehensive services include technology feasibility studies, engineering support, territory assessments, strategic planning, workforce development, education and outreach.
Energy Equity
TRC is striving to address inequalities in environmental and health impacts that have historically benefited some communities over others. We are committed to environmental justice and apply these principles through our services. Whether providing back-up power to support vulnerable populations, designing climate action plans to better serve disadvantaged communities, or building diversity and inclusion principles into our clients’ sustainability plans, TRC is proud to work with our clients to strengthen social benefits.
Featured Programs
As part of our work for the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), TRC implements the authority’s Workforce Development initiatives, running the Clean Energy Internship Program, the On-the-Job Training Program, managing large-scale training projects and assisting with stakeholder engagement and market research.
TRC helped launch and implement a program designed to support rebuilding efforts in fire-ravaged California communities. The Advanced Energy Rebuild program is a collaborative partnership across multiple California utilities and agencies, with the goal of helping homeowners rebuild more energy-efficient homes with lower greenhouse gas emissions. To date, over 625 new homes have been incentivized by the program.
Learn MoreTRC helps implement an EV charging program for a municipal transportation authority, which is electrifying its fleet vehicles and providing charging for employee vehicles and commuters. TRC supports this program with community impact planning, traffic and real estate analysis, technology implementation, incentive structure design, outreach and tracking GHG emissions goals.
As part of implementing a C&I Energy Efficiency Program for Consumers Energy, a Michigan utility, TRC works collaboratively with the client to develop new customer engagement tools to increase program accessibility, usability, and user experience. By developing digital customer tools, the program team has removed barriers to participation and helped reach a diverse customer base.
TRC implements PG&E’s Energy Savings Assistance Common Area Measures (ESA CAM), a new multifamily initiative that provides energy audits, technical assistance, and construction cost coverage for central system energy efficiency upgrades, from lighting to boilers. The program serves some PG&E’s most disadvantaged customers. Despite constraints from COVID, the program currently estimates providing over $16M in incentives to low–income customers.
TRC supports a Research & Development field test program in Minnesota to standardize retrofit processes for HVAC building controls. The project will measure energy savings, determine cost-effectiveness, estimate energy and carbon reductions, and evaluate customer acceptance. This research supports Minnesota’s statewide goals to advance research and innovation in energy conservation.
Learn MoreAs California marches toward bold zero net energy (ZNE) and climate objectives, local communities are becoming leaders in this initiative: adopting building and vehicle “reach codes” that require better energy performance than the state. TRC is partnering with cities, utilities and community choice aggregators across CA to set reach code goals, gain community support and demonstrate cost effectiveness.
Learn MoreTRC supports the Archdiocese of New York’s energy conservation initiative to manage costs and decrease the environmental impact of its 1,800-building footprint. As part of our work for the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), we’ve helped the Archdiocese save more than $3.3 million in energy costs and reduce more than 7,000 tons in carbon emissions to date.
Learn MoreTRC implements two Statewide New Construction Residential All-Electric and Mixed Fuel Programs in California, promoting energy efficiency and decarbonization measures in residential construction and alteration projects. Our work supports California’s statewide energy efficiency and carbon reduction objectives, which include a goal of 100% zero net energy (ZNE) for new residential construction.
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Create New Pathways To Thrive With TRC
TRC designs, implements and manages wide-ranging energy efficiency and distributed energy programs for utilities and agencies, from pilots to large-scale and statewide delivery models.Our comprehensive, technical solutions include individual measures, whole-property solutions and stakeholder engagement to maximize impact across retrofit and new construction projects. Contact us to start transforming your energy future today.
Sharing Our Perspectives
Our practitioners share their insights and perspectives on the trends and challenges shaping the market.
News
TRC Earns U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Qualification to be a Provider of Industrial Assessment Centers (IAC) Equivalent Energy Assessments
September 24, 2024
TRC can now provide IAC equivalent energy audits to small and medium-sized manufacturing (SMM) firms, who can receive grants of up to $300,000 for implementation of audit recommendations.
Insights
Utility Carbon Data Management
May 27, 2024
We’re pleased to announce Episode 7 of TRC’s Energy Talks Podcast, where we join experts from utilities and carbon accounting solution providers to discuss how our industry is understanding, measuring, and working to improve our collective carbon footprint.
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Empowering Stakeholders to Co-Create Solutions that Address Inequity
April 23, 2024
Addressing inequality and ensuring that the benefits of the clean energy transition are accessible to all requires close examination of long-relied-upon processes that may have hidden inequities ingrained within them.
Insights
Monetizing the Environmental Attributes of Building Decarbonization Programs
March 27, 2024
Tune in to Episode 6 of TRC’s Energy Talks Podcast, where we join industry experts from the wholesale energy and environmental commodity markets to discuss how utilities and project developers are valuing the environmental attributes of building decarbonization projects.
Events and WebinarsVideos
Hydrogen Hub Funding Provisions
March 26, 2024
TRC’s panel of practitioners discuss the Hydrogen Hub (H2Hub) funding provisions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (BIL).
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TRC Companies, Inc. selected to participate in Department of Energy (DOE) Multi-State Clean Hydrogen Hub
October 13, 2023
TRC received an award for advancing the transition to a clean-hydrogen, low-carbon economy by supporting the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) consortium.
Download Whitepaper: 10 Years of Insights for Clean Community Microgrids
March 1, 2023
Clean, community microgrids represent a promising and timely opportunity for you to advance your customer offering and deliver meaningful societal benefits, all while modernizing your grid and providing you with load flexibility.
Insights
Carrots and Sticks for Building Decarbonization: Incentive Programs and Codes & Standards
January 11, 2023
Decarbonization of the U.S. building stock presents an enormous opportunity to enhance the quality of our built environment and combat climate change, given that commercial and residential buildings account for over 30% of GHG emissions in the U.S. This critical transition – long underway – has recently been catalyzed by the enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which promise to bolster the entire clean energy supply chain, including support for the development and enforcement of building energy codes, as well as the introduction of new consumer incentive programs for electric and high-efficiency equipment. As energy utilities and governmental agencies accelerate energy efficiency and decarbonization initiatives for the communities they serve, they are successfully leveraging two important tool sets: 1) Building efficiency and electrification incentive programs 2) Building energy codes, reach codes and appliance standards. Respectively, these are the carrots and sticks of market transformation toward building decarbonization. Presently, governmental initiatives and organizational commitments to decarbonization are motivating industry practitioners to apply these toolsets more aggressively, to accelerate this transition; as a result, the legacy market interactions between these carrots and sticks are increasingly complex and at times, contested. However, our teams and partners who expertly apply both toolsets – designing and implementing incentive programs and supporting local jurisdictions in advancing their energy codes – believe that they can work together. Contact Us
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Start Your Batteries: Mass Fleet Electrification is Coming (And What We Can do to Prepare)
April 13, 2022
As we plan for and make early investments for fleets, we’ll be paving the way for higher degrees of market penetration of passenger vehicles and other modes of transportation as well.
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Ensuring a Just Transition: Optimizing Opportunities for All in the Low-Carbon Future
January 24, 2022
Carbon elimination of the magnitude needed to address climate change requires systems-level change that can only be reached by incremental, ground-up progress, building upon what we have achieved thus far.
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Decarbonization: A Systems-Level Challenge and Actions to Address Climate Change
December 7, 2021
Carbon elimination of the magnitude needed to address climate change requires systems-level change that can only be reached by incremental, ground-up progress, building upon what we have achieved thus far.
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10 Takeaways from the COP26 Climate Meeting
November 17, 2021
There are compelling reasons to be optimistic about the outcomes of the COP26 meeting. Notably, agreement among all nations that more needs to be done, by both private and governmental bodies, to contain and mitigate climate change.
Insights
The Price of Natural Gas: Onward and Upward or Just a Temporary Blip?
November 12, 2021
Most industry experts agree that weather aside, the global energy and gas markets are likely to remain uncertain with supply and market demand becoming tighter and more challenging to forecast.
Insights
On the Road to Decarbonization: The Role of All-Source Competitive Solicitations
October 14, 2021
All-Source Competitive Solicitations offer utilities an alternative to centralized planning, construction and dispatch of power supplies, helping to usher in a new era of market-driven technology innovation.
News
Pacific Gas and Electric Selects TRC as Program Implementer for New Construction Residential All-Electric and Mixed Fuel Programs
September 27, 2021
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) formally announced TRC as the designated lead Program Implementer for the Statewide New Construction (SWNC) Residential All-Electric and Mixed Fuel Programs following a competitive solicitation process.
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TRC and Slipstream partner with the Minnesota Department of Commerce to launch energy conservation R&D project
June 24, 2021
TRC, Slipstream, and the University of Minnesota are working with controls system manufacturers and contractors to develop such a standardized and streamlined building control retrofit process leveraging ASHRAE Guideline 36
News
TRC Companies Inc. Acquires EMI Consulting
January 27, 2021
Today TRC Companies (“TRC”), announces the expansion of its advanced energy capabilities with the acquisition of EMI Consulting (“EMI”), a Seattle based firm that consults on the strategic development of clean energy solutions including energy efficiency, demand management, decarbonization and customer engagement.
News
City of Camarillo, California approves moving forward with Hybrid Solar Microgrids at five critical community facilities
November 6, 2020
On October 28, the Camarillo City Council unanimously approved moving forward with the design of Hybrid Microgrids at five City facilities: City Hall, the Corporation Yard, Camarillo Public Library, Police Station, and Wastewater Treatment Plant. The microgrid at the Camarillo Public Library will be designed with solar+storage only, while the other four sites will employ a hybrid design of solar+storage+diesel.
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TRC Digital partners with Dominion Energy to evolve its distributed energy resource strategy
September 22, 2020
Dominion Energy, one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy, has partnered with TRC Digital to evaluate, implement and integrate technology to further the utility’s distributed energy goals. TRC Digital will facilitate Dominion Energy’s strategy development and technology execution, allowing Dominion Energy and its customers to accelerate the shift to distributed energy resources (DER) and net carbon reduction.
Strategic Electrification
February 4, 2020
As we look to spur strategic electrification across the US, it will be up energy providers and solution implementers to continue sharing ideas, insights and lessons learned
A place called home: Helping California families rebuild after wildfires
November 21, 2019
A place called home: Helping California families rebuild after wildfires
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TRC and partners win $1 million grant for engineering innovative New York microgrid
April 20, 2017
TRC is proud to support Huntington, NY bolster power reliability and climate-change resiliency with a sophisticated new “community microgrid’’ combining solar energy, a fuel cell, biogas and traditional natural gas to deliver electricity and heat to local customers and institutions.