Elevate Energy

We are helping communities access better technologies that dramatically reduce carbon emissions, conducting research that places equity at the core of climate solutions, and working in partnership to advance policy that will get us to a carbon-free economy by 2050. Climate change is an issue that impacts everyone; the time is now to accelerate our action and broaden our collaboration.

We’ll be advancing net-zero solutions that work in the communities that need them most, addressing multiple seemingly intractable problems at once. By dramatically reducing energy and water expenses, capital is freed up for other needs and families become more financially secure. These measures also improve the environmental quality of these families’ homes and thereby improve their health. We’ll be diversifying the clean energy and water workforce, improving incomes while ensuring everyone has access to this rapidly expanding industry.

Our twenty years of experience has taught us that we must move beyond talk to action. We’re innovating solutions that work for communities by engaging people directly to hear what their needs are and what our shared goals are and developing practical ways to achieve them together. We’re present in people’s homes and communities, improving the efficiency and comfort of their homes and preserving affordable housing. We’re helping people access training and jobs in the clean energy economy.

ILSFA has provided $34 M in incentives to develop over 10 MW of solar projects.
Elevate helped 127 buildings improve 21,924 units with our multifamily energy efficiency services.
Elevate helped introduce the Clean Energy Jobs Act in the Illinois legislature.
Elevate helped 40 nonprofits reduce operating costs and focus more resources on their mission.
Elevate graduated a cohort of 41 trainees through the Solar Jobs Training Program.
Elevate removed home-based health hazards and improved energy efficiency for 20 uninsured and Medicaid patients with severe asthma.
Elevate provided free resources to help 759 child care providers address lead in drinking water.
Elevate released a Visible Value Blueprint which demonstrates how efficiency advocates can engage real estate professionals to showcase high performing homes.
Our analysis of energy burden and poverty was published in Social Forces, a premier sociology journals.
Elevate organized the Energy Education Challenge, where three central Illinois high schools competed to win money for their community through energy education.
Elevate participated as the national leadership partner of Energy Efficiency for All.
Elevate developed the City of Lancaster Municipal Operations Climate Action Plan.