Capital, Data, and Technology Drive Trellis Impact 2025

          RMI
          
            · November 07, 2025
          
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RMI convened Trellis Impact 2025 in San Jose, focusing on deploying capital, data, and technology to advance the clean energy economy.

Main announcement/action: Held October 28–30, 2025, in San Jose, California, Trellis Impact 2025 combined Trellis’ core convenings (GreenFin, VERGE, Bloom) and emphasized three connective threads: finance, data, and transportation. Speakers included Nabil Bennouna (RMI) urging a shift “from subsidies to risk management,” John McGrath (RMI) on pragmatic AI and data-center planning, and Andrew Chen (RMI) on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) certificates; the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (RMI, EDF, Neoteric Energy and Climate) launched a ready-to-go offering to help COP30 attendees address aviation emissions.
Background and details: RMI highlighted practical, delivery-focused approaches including climate finance tools, risk-sharing and pooled balance-sheet strategies, and research on data center power and energy solutions.
- Date: October 28–30, 2025
- Time: not specified in the article
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Agenda/subject: corporate climate finance, AI & data centers’ impact on energy load, transportation/aviation climate solutions (SAF procurement)