… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing buildingstock that is responsible for a substantial … replacementtime, focus hasshifted to retrofits and upgradesto existing buildingstock. This would both reduce the amount of greenhouse gasesthatthese buildings emit and reduce … Financial institutions are reluctantto lend when any claim thatthey might make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental …
… After the recession, the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB), a quasi-public state entity, soughtto bring much-needed clean-energy finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the EfficientBuildings Fund (EBF) and is iteratively improving it. This bank, which combinesthe features …
… 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 … Jonathan Lash, who announced hissupport of the initiative at an ecomagination launch event in Washington D.C. Other environmental groups - particularly those that had fought GE …
… Atthe end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company … had bought a large developer. However, other module makers had made a point of not pursuing thistype of downstream integration, vowing notto compete with their customers. Other … 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 …
… When Walmart de México y Centroamérica decided to buythe power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’sstruggling project received a significant boost. While the proposed …
… On July 12, 2017, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government bestowed the prestigious Ash award in policy … Using transaction enablers and risk mitigants like loan loss reserve funds, interest rate buy-downs, subordinated debt, or warehousing facilities, the Green Bank lowered the cost of … funds came from public sources. How then could the Green Bank, whose mission rested on buildingtrust, both insulate itself from the political winds from the north, and move …
… Bryan Garcia, the President and CEO of the Connecticut Green Bank, had a big decision to make. Garcia is a … Connecticut had a long history of considering climate change in state policy. As part of thistradition, Connecticut’s governor Dannel Malloy established the GC3 on Earth Day 2015 … energy needs. The nuclear power all came from a massive plantsituated near New London, CT called Millstone. The facility included two reactorsthat produced almost half of …
… Suzlon, an India-based wind energy company, had made quite a splash in its first … had skyrocketed. With little more than a cell phone and the internet, Pedersen setto work buildingSuzlon’s international presence. While Suzlon pursued wind farm projects in …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power to India's … 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 … how the company might expand. The company decided to institutionalize its design process by building an innovation center. SELCO also added productsthat provided energy solutions …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Sobotka Seed Prize for Sustainable Ventures. CBEY supportsstudents in buildingsustainable businessesthat are solving some of our planet’s biggest problems. A huge part of this has been via the Sobotka Seed Prize for Sustainable Ventures. Since 2011, David …