James Newcomb

James Newcomb is a Managing Director at RMI, where he leads the Institute’s practice areas for North American electricity and India mobility. He is a writer, consultant, and scenario thinker with more than 30 years’ experience in managing cutting-edge research and advisory organizations.

Mr. Newcomb helped to develop and launch RMI’s Electricity Innovation Laboratory (eLab), which brings together leading industry actors to develop, test, and scale new solutions that enable greater adoption of renewable distributed energy resources by all customer types. He has consulted widely with leading utilities, cities, utility regulators and other organizations on the transformation of the electricity sector to achieve a more efficient and renewable system.

In India, he has led a team of experts in support of actions by the central government to achieve a rapid transformation of the country’s mobility system to a future that will provide shared, connected and electric mobility services. Based on a charrette that engaged thought leaders from government, private companies, and other institutions, RMI’s India team published the widely noted report India Leaps Ahead: Transformative Mobility Solutions for All.