About

Energy infrastructure investments over the next decade will shape our collective future for the next century. Groundwork Data offers advisory, research, and technology services to support a reliable, safe, equitable, and affordable clean energy transition. We help our clients make better decisions with better data.

We’re working to address key gaps in the current energy transition planning landscape:

  • An over-reliance on the private sector and investor-owned utilities in charting the course of our energy future, and the subsequent need for public-centered independent analysis.

  • The limited use of data-driven decision making in public infrastructure investment, and the opportunity for technology to provide transparency, novel insights, and improved public outcomes.

  • The difficulty of translating state and national goals into local action and the need for bottom-up community roadmaps to meet decarbonization goals.

Who We Are

Mike Walsh

Michael J. Walsh, Ph.D

Michael J. Walsh is an integrated systems scientist and deep decarbonization planner. He is the Managing Partner at Groundwork Data. Michael has been instrumental in various climate and energy forecasting studies for universities, cities, states, and global industries. His prior roles include serving as the technical lead for the Carbon Free Boston report and as the project director for the Massachusetts 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap study. He is currently a co-principal investigator for the Boston Climate Progress Report. Michael earned a BA in Chemistry from Colby College and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University

Michael Gartman

Michael Gartman is an Affiliate Consultant at Groundwork Data, where he supports municipal engagement and policy research. Michael brings a decade of experience at RMI, where he helped more than 300 leading implementers develop cutting-edge policies and programs to advance our clean energy transition. Michael's work has been featured in NPR, Bloomberg News, and Canary Media. He holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from CU Boulder.