… Atthe end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company … developing B2C channelsto tap into the growing market of local contractors and do-it-yourselfers looking to add solar panelsto their roofs. Trina had already partnered with … had more capacity than demand and thatsolar modules were passing from a seller’sto a buyer’s market. Atthe same time, the oversupply was pushing prices down further so that …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power to India's … The road to SELCO’ssuccess, however, has not always been smooth. Hande cofounded SELCO (with Neville Williams) in 1995 to sell and service photovoltaic (PV) systems in his home … and deviating from its mission to help the poor. Asthe company was recovering from this move, the price of solar panelsspiked and sales declined. Investors put pressure on …
… When Walmart de México y Centroamérica decided to buythe power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’s … boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with abundant wind resources, absent a creditworthy off-taker the project would not have been able to line up …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that isresponsible for a substantial … replacementtime, focus hasshifted to retrofits and upgradesto existing building stock. This would both reduce the amount of greenhouse gasesthatthese buildings emit and reduce … both the investment cost for energy-efficiency upgrades and the subsequent costsavings. Source Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of FocusSustainable Finance and …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancienttimes, it is only in the past few … 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja family (operators of the Sinar Mas …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining halls … and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast majority of the food comes from sources other than the Yale Farm). … varieties of vegetables, fruit, flowers, and herbs, which issold in a farmer's market or donated to local food banks. The farm'sstaff of four manages community work days and …
… NY Green Bank (NYGB), New York State’s $1-billion clean-energy fund, and a young new efficiency company named Sealed signed … investors are increasingly familiar with residential energy-efficiency financing, they don’t use energy savings in their underwriting criteria. So the cost per project can be too low for significant resourcesto be dedicated to vetting each one. Plus, the methods of energy-efficiency upgrades …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meantthatthe national oil company PEMEX had to find waysto implementthis policy. …
… Asthe Connecticut Green Bank worksto design high-impact programs for the solar market, it has … renewable portfolio standard (RPS) was being predominantly metwith out-of-state resources from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, yielding little economic development benefits … market’s growth led to a proposal for fine-tuning the incentive programsthe state offered. This led to the creation of a bill, HB 6838 (Public Act 15-194), proposing a flexible …
… In the early 2000s, the CEO of General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, recognized this emerging pattern in public policy and consumer behavior, and he spotted an opportunity … an environmental business initiative called "ecomagination" in 2005 that was rooted in four commitments: To double investment in clean research and development (R&D) to $1.5 …