… Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the United States market. In the previous five years, Trina, a company with manufacturing and … in solar development in Europe was the result of countries committed to reducing their carbon footprints and willing to provide generous feed-in tariffs to solar developers. On … to the solar industry were, as yet, not well understood. Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Trina Solar: Expanding in the U.S. Market … Trina Solar: …
… For the work of his company, Hande has received numerous recognitions; he is frequently cited as one of the top social entrepreneurs in India and an example for the entire developing … off employees and contract the organization. With the help of the World Bank’s commercial finance arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Hande was able to restructure the … had become known for redesigning off-the-shelf solar electric components to suit the particular needs of the urban and rural poor. The SELCO design process began with an …
… about a key element of that strategy – nuclear power plants. There were strong proponents and opponents of nuclear energy on the GC3 and Garcia was weighing each side’s … position. Connecticut had a long history of considering climate change in state policy. As part of this tradition, Connecticut’s governor Dannel Malloy established the GC3 on Earth … of Connecticut’s energy needs. The nuclear power all came from a massive plant situated near New London, CT called Millstone. The facility included two reactors that produced …
… When Walmart de México y Centroamérica decided to buy the power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’s struggling project … of the electricity Walmart de México consumed in Mexico in 2010. The wind farm was just onepart of the efforts Walmart de México was undertaking in the sustainability area. The … Monterrey, Mexico City Clean Energy Corporate Sustainability Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Walmart de México: Investing in Renewable Energy … Walmart de México: …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with … EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Circularity PEMEX: The Ethanol Decision … PEMEX: The Ethanol …
… stage. By the end of 2007, the company was the market leader in Asia and had completed projects in fourteen countries across five continents. But many investors believed these … had mounted and the price of fossil fuels had skyrocketed. With little more than a cell phone and the internet, Pedersen set to work building Suzlon’s international presence. While … additional markets to fuel the company’s continued growth. Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Suzlon … Suzlon Suzlon, an India-based wind energy company, had …
… Bank (RIIB), a quasi-public state entity, sought to bring much-needed clean-energy finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the Efficient … and an infrastructure bank, was developed under new political leadership. The recently-elected state treasurer, Seth Magaziner, proposed the EBF to Gina Raimondo, the new state … which it leverages to support clean-energy activities. The Rhode Island Public Energy Partnership (RIPEP) was temporarily accelerating utility energy-efficiency efforts. The new …
… standards developed in recent years for new buildings do not address much of the existing carbon emissions. In the face of the long replacement time, focus has shifted to retrofits and upgrades to existing building stock. This would both reduce the amount … and is senior to the mortgage, providing the incentive necessary to attract private finance. It also addresses the misalignment of incentives by creating an Environmental …
… product. To date, the program has performed much better than expected. Average realized savings have been on the order of 50% of the average electricity bill prior to the installation of the upgrades. The program uses the PAYS® framework. PAYS® is an on-bill-financing solution developed by Clean Energy Works (CEW), an … by Dr. Holmes Hummel, who served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Policy & International Affairs from 2009 to 2013. CEW …
… 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 capital for … the Connecticut Green Bank rethink how they approached interest-setting? If profitable parts of the organization could support those that would never make sense on a pure … And what trade-offs existed between goals of demonstrating the performance of clean energy finance assets to the private sector, supplying as much capital to the market as possible, …