Capital-E

Capital-E, also written Capital E, works with companies, cities, banks and governments to speed up the shift to a low carbon economy. It is both an advisory business and an early-stage investor in clean energy companies.

Services

• Climate advisory: support for organisations cutting carbon and managing climate risk.
• Standards work: it has helped develop green building standards and industry methods for measuring and documenting carbon reduction.
• Early-stage investment: equity positions in low carbon and clean energy firms.
• Smart Surfaces: it founded and leads the Smart Surfaces Coalition and published the first city-wide analysis of adoption in Washington D.C., Philadelphia and El Paso.

Customers and markets

Cities, banks, governments and companies working on the built environment. Its president, Greg Kats, led development of the IPMVP energy efficiency standard.

Key facts

• President: Greg Kats
• Coalition: Smart Surfaces Coalition, with 35 member organisations