Beacon Climate provides municipalities with a scenario‑planning platform called CEERUM that models clean‑energy and resilience strategies, visualizes distributed energy resource adoption, and estimates greenhouse‑gas impacts. The tool creates a data‑rich, actionable planning environment that streamlines collaboration across local departments and state partners, helping communities prepare for policy compliance and grant opportunities with minimal staff effort.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Municipalities often lack integrated tools to evaluate clean energy and resilience options, making it difficult to model distributed energy resource (DER) adoption, assess greenhouse‑gas impacts, and align plans with state policies or grant requirements.
Solution
Beacon Climate offers CEERUM, a scenario‑planning platform that enables local governments to model clean‑energy and resilience strategies within a collaborative, data‑rich environment. Users can visualize DER deployment pathways, quantify GHG reductions, and explore multiple future scenarios with minimal staff effort. The platform integrates directly with state policy frameworks and grant application processes, streamlining the preparation of actionable plans. CEERUM supports cross‑departmental collaboration and external stakeholder engagement, ensuring that all relevant parties can contribute to and review the planning outcomes. By providing clear, data‑driven insights, the tool helps communities make informed decisions that advance decarbonization and climate‑resilience goals.
Target Audience
Primary users are municipal planning, sustainability, and public works departments, as well as regional climate‑action agencies seeking to develop and submit comprehensive clean‑energy strategies.
Features
- Interactive scenario builder for clean‑energy, resilience, and DER adoption pathways
- Real‑time GHG impact calculations and emissions forecasting
- Collaborative workspace allowing multiple departments and external partners to co‑author plans
- Exportable reports aligned with state policy criteria and grant application formats
- Cloud‑based data repository that maintains version history and supports data sharing
- Integration hooks for importing utility data, GIS layers, and other municipal datasets