… the institutions required to sustain a new market. What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular is that, across settings, the issues that … the stakeholder groups are similar and stable; the overall desire to create a market –for environmental, political, and/or economic reasons—is considerable; and yet, there is … Publications The research team has outlined and is in the process of writing a practitioner-oriented article discussing the critical themes that have emerged from the analysis and …
… The objective of this project was to develop a new economic formula for maximizing present value of net benefits of wind farm investment. This research … models: 1) the wind turbine (WT) reliability prediction model and 2) the “Four-Quadrant Component/Subsystem Maintenance Model.” The WT reliability prediction model was developed using … model, strategies were proposed based on component reliability and its contribution to the energy generation loss in kilowatt-hours given the component failure. These four maintenance …
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable energy generation, have made … used. RPSs have been unable to achieve these goals due to inherent limitations of a market for RECs. In states with the most aggressive clean energy policies, the shortcomings of RPSs … outcomes. These proposals tend to fragment markets, resulting in poor economic efficiency. Meanwhile, proposals to make renewable energy subsidy markets more robust result …
… financing a Green Resilience Hub (GRH). GRHs are physical facilities equipped with clean energy technologies and strategically located to offer vital services to local communities before, during, and after emergencies such as natural disasters. The primary goal of this … students at the Yale School of the Environment, we have identified significant potential for GRHs to support communities in emergencies while also providing sustainable revenue …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these practices into one space creates an efficient and sustainable land-use system that benefits farmers, solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This emerging form of renewable energy blends complementary land uses and eliminates the false “food or …
… to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. This will have catastrophic effects on human health, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, fisheries, sea levels, natural ecosystems, and more. For many, the … To cut through the noise, our team from the Yale School of Management narrowed in on one, universal metric that is the single biggest driver of climate change: greenhouse gas …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to … right): Ayush Acharya 1 , Joe Boland 2 , Caroline Heilbrun 1 , Helena Lam 1 , Steve Yannacone 1 1 Yale School of the Environment 2 Yale College Download the Report File Download file …
… Solar Industry? 2796 6778 2798 2745 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus … Mobilizing Finance for Land … acres of land per megawatt of generating capacity, solar has a sizable land footprint — one that is only expected to grow as solar and renewables meet a larger share of U.S. energy …
… This project involved the collection of two energy generation datasets: the hourly wind output profiles and the hourly electricity load … at more than 1000 geographic locations within the Eastern Interconnect of the United States for the years 2004-2006. This data was compiled by a joint-degree master’s student to help … utilizes the methodology and results of this research in the “Renewable Technologies” component of the Energy Market Strategy course taught at the Yale School of Management. The …
… a product provides to you, does it matter to you whether many others also use that product? For many products, the answer is yes. This simple idea that there are additional benefits to you if everyone else is using the same product is often called a network effect because as more people … are used to discuss the potential analogy to the electricity context. 2198 6785 Clean Energy Equity and Justice Network Effect Benefits From Electricity Grid Connections - A …