Renewable Thermal Collaborative

Founded in 2017, Renewable Thermal Collaborative is a non-profit headquartered in Arlington, United States specializing in Biogas, Geothermal, Solar.

Renewable Thermal Collaborative (RTC) is a nonprofit coalition of industrial and institutional thermal energy users and renewable heating and cooling solution providers. It works to scale renewable thermal technologies, including biomethane, electrification, geothermal, solar thermal and thermal energy storage, and to advocate for supportive policy. RTC was first organized in 2017 as a joint initiative of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, David Gardiner and Associates, and the World Wildlife Fund, and was established as an independent nonprofit corporation in 2025, with a 501 status application pending before the IRS. It reports more than 130 members and solution providers.