Resilient Urban Neighborhoods
Part of an award-winning partnership
Resilient Urban Neighborhoods (RUN) and the Green Justice Coalition (GJC; together, RUN-GJC) team were honored to receive NECEC’s 2023 Partnership of the Year Award!
This recognition is a reminder that collaborations are the key to 21st-century progress. Climable and the rest of the RUN-GJC team hope that our microgrid projects will serve as the blueprints to allow communities to access the benefits of cleaner, local sources of energy while improving climate resilience.
About RUN
Resilient Urban Neighborhoods (RUN) is a collaboration between clean energy technical organizations Climable, Clean Energy Solutions, Inc., Peregrine Energy Group, and Synapse Energy Economics that assists local grassroots organizations with clean energy projects for their communities. The team’s goal is to increase renewable energy generation and storage technologies in Massachusetts and beyond, establish community-governance models, create new localized business opportunities, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The team believes that clean energy should be accessible to everyone, not just affluent communities, institutions, and industries. One ideal vehicle for this work is a distributed, clean-energy microgrid. RUN promotes energy democracy by taking the traditional, campus-style microgrid model and adjusting it to accommodate buildings across a community. In this way, people and communities can exercise control over their energy future. Adding electric vehicles and reliable communications to the model allows a community to prosper in place in an emergency. In this approach, grassroots partners have decision-making power since it is the community that knows best what it needs. To learn more about microgrids, visit our microgrids page. To learn more about RUN’s microgrid model, download this PDF here!
The RUN Team, in partnership with the Green Justice Coalition (GJC), completed feasibility assessments for clean, community microgrids in Chelsea, MA, and Boston’s Chinatown. The detailed reports are available below:
Download the Chelsea Community Microgrid Feasibility Assessment PDF here.
Download the Chinatown Community Microgrid Feasibility Assessment PDF here.
Read more about RUN’s microgrid model below!
