… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a substantial percentage of its greenhouse-gas … reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that these buildings emit and reduce their operating costs. While these energy-efficiency upgrades are often cash-flow-positive with the right …
… Texas Office and head of the Texas Climate Initiative. You meet with him and learn that he needs help preparing for an unusual negotiation. Marston will be flying to San … (Texas Pacific Group) offer to TXU, nor why the private equity firms want EDF's and NRDC's blessing for the deal. After talking with Marston, you agree that your report will cover three general areas: What is the economic value of EDF's …
… finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the Efficient Buildings Fund (EBF) and is iteratively improving it. This bank, which combines the features … projects are net cash flow-positive, meaning they generate more savings than the total cost of the project and debt service. Over the project lifetime and after debt service, … savings. After over a year of operation, the EBF has yielded action recommendations that decision makers can use to refine and iterate the program. The EBF is an innovative …
… a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting observations and building models linking an increase in CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere to the general … effect”. Since CO2 was a byproduct of the burning of fossil fuels, these models implied that human activity was a contributor to this increase in global temperature. During the … since the ICE had been a mainstay of the automotive industry for over 80 years. Nonetheless over the next decade, GM spent billions of dollars experimenting and building …
… of Connecticut. As of September 2016, Garcia remained undecided about a key element of that strategy – nuclear power plants. There were strong proponents and opponents of nuclear … grid. The operating licenses for the two reactors were set to expire in 2035 and 2045, making the issue extremely salient for the GC3. The GC3 remained divided as to what to do … for him. Garcia noted about natural gas, “If you're extending the infrastructure, you're building something into the system that will be around for a long time.” To provide insight …
… the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meant that the national oil company PEMEX had to find ways to implement this policy. Nevertheless, in spite of efforts by various government agencies as well as PEMEX, by mid-2014 no … supply. As Mexican policy makers looked at the country's energy supply, they expected that substituting bioethanol for some portion of gasoline fuel would meet a number of the …
… module maker Sharp had bought Recurrent Energies and its pipeline of projects. Before that, the world’s largest module maker, First Solar, had bought a large developer. However, … vowing not to compete with their customers. Other module makers had opened manufacturing facilities in the United States to increase their visibility. In November of 2010, Chinese … to provide generous feed-in tariffs to solar developers. On the other hand, there was less political will for carbon reduction in the United States. The U.S. federal government …
… like loan loss reserve funds, interest rate buy-downs, subordinated debt, or warehousing facilities, the Green Bank lowered the cost of capital for consumers and businesses to install energy efficiency upgrades and … to funding, structure, and products could all affect the "inclusive prosperity" goals that the executive team held dear. How could a sustainable model still serve all Connecticut …
… its sustainability goals. The wind farm would supply electricity to 348 Walmart de México facilities in central Mexico, providing 18% of the electricity Walmart de México consumed in … sources. In addition to wind, solar and mini-hydroelectric projects were possibilities that Walmart de México could consider. Any project that Walmart de México undertook had to work in concert with Mexico’s electricity grid and rate-making structure. Mexico’s political leadership had announced a commitment to electricity …
… were damaged before they could be harvested and sold, crop insurance provided resources that allowed farmers to be able to plant the following season. Settlements for weather … Company officials participated in discussions of climate change and investigated ways of making the country more resilient to the coming changes in weather. There were a variety of … resilient to the effects of climate change. Santam executives had the challenge of using cost-benefit analysis to determine which of these options was the best for the company and …