… Originally published in Yale Climate and Energy Institute on November 12, 2015. Bob Litterman, former head of risk management for … lucky as he has been in dodging fossil fuel-related tragedy. En route to a New York City show with his wife last December, the couple watched as a tanker in the oncoming lane of I-78 … for the next seven hours. For a man who has spent years trying to alert the financial community to the dangers of global warming, it was eerily reminiscent of a column he’d …
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… applications to co-fund renewable energy, energy efficiency, and combined heat and power to help increase the climate resilience of indigenous communities. The available … at least 10 kW, said Lizana Pierce, project manager at DOE’s Office of Indian Energy. For community-scale installations, there is no minimum source-energy percentage, but the … can also help to shield indigenous communities from the effects of fuel-supply disruption. However, intensified storms, coastal and riverbank erosion, ice-melting patterns, heavy …
… a week since the stunning revelation that the Volkswagen group equipped millions of diesel-powered cars with software designed to fool anybody testing their emissions, and just days … manipulation is often held up as a prime example of the latter and cases featuring the US energy company’s massive financial fraud are therefore taught in business schools around the … and could have far greater consequences. First, whereas Enron’s fraud wiped out the life savings of thousands, Volkswagen’s has endangered the health of millions. The high levels of …
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… (DG) finance. Their flagship initiative involves overseeing the standard lease and power purchase agreement (PPA) contract documents developed by the Solar Access to Public … leads to simplicity. Solar companies can focus on their critical issues instead of creating and revising financing contracts. “It’s not the contract that is going to sell the system,” Rottman said. “It’s the quality of the business – how you treat your customers, what you offer to your customers, and how you offer it.” …
… baggage to consider. Your only guideline is to allow the continued growth of solar power and distributed generation. You’re given a blank slate on which to envision a … Duplicating grid infrastructure was neither profitable nor economically efficient. However, O’Boyle said, technological advances are now challenging this assumption. “[The] … O’Boyle said distributed generation offers utilities “a massive opportunity for cost savings.” It also provides an array of new business opportunities, such as customer-oriented …
… their town. Solarize, which has unrolled across the state over the last three years, is a community-based program that leverages the power of social interaction to motivate rooftop solar installation. Specifically, the … on a small set of volunteers known as solar ambassadors to drive the campaign. Through workshops, tabling at farmers’ markets, open houses and other events, the solar ambassadors …
… $650 million to build chargers in California. It’s important now to look at the data on how public chargers affect EV purchases and how the economics of these chargers actually work.” When the Nissan Leaf dropped its prices … charging station cost and availability fades away.” Read the executive summary at the Clean Energy Finance Forum and download the full report . Equity and Justice Clean Energy A Simple …