… Originally published in YaleClimate and Energy Institute on November 12, 2015. Bob Litterman, former head of risk … and was the last car through as a major artery for New York closed for the next seven hours. For a man who has spent years trying to alert the financial community to the dangers …
… Carson, the company’s new senior director of solar ambassadors, spoke to students from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management as part … and the Environment . Frances Beinecke, YC ’71, FES ’74, former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and McCluskey Fellow at Yale, moderated the discussion, which was also part of a series titled “Diverse Voices: Environmental Leaders on Climate Change and the Environment.” Read the full story on the Yale School of Management's …
… In the Navajo Nation, electricity may be a fragile commodity as climate change intensifies. Other tribes in the United States face similar energy … Applications are due by Dec. 10. For facility-scale installations, the amount of the source energy that must be displaced is 20 percent – and for renewable energy and/or combined … power, projects should produce at least 10 kW, said Lizana Pierce, project manager at DOE’s Office of Indian Energy. For community-scale installations, there is no minimum …
… Volkswagen is worse than Enron … Sep 28, 2015 Seven reasons Volkswagen is worse than Enron Yale SOM's David Bach writes for the Financial Times David Bach It has only been a week … EDT Online Related News SOM, FES to collaborate on Global Network projects Global Network Courses: Building a Toolkit for Global Teams … David Bach … It has only been a week since the …
… At a panel discussion on September 15, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) … joint-degree students shared some of the lessons they gleaned during internships this past summer. Because they’re enrolled in a three-year program, joint-degree students from the SOM and FES have the opportunity to take part in two summer internships, allowing them to sample a broader variety of firms and roles. The three …
… A quick scan of sustainability events over this period reveals a series of news stories, beginning with Silent Spring, that have become household names — the crash of the … The fundamental sustainability challenges (e.g., environmental pollution, below-living wage salaries, human rights infringements, consumption of constrained resources) all represent costs to society that are not factored into the price of an operation …
… to becoming a major game-changer in the path to unleashing distributed solar finance. “Our mission is to bring the solar industry up to a level where capital markets will say … acting in the way a sophisticated industry behaves,” Rottman said. What Are SEFA’s Resources? The standard residential lease contracts and residential and commercial PPA … Revenue Sources for Clean Energy Tue, April 7th, 2015, 9:00 AM EDT — 10:00 AM EDT Online Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (YESS) Fri, November 6th, 2015, 6:00 AM EST — Sat, …
… There are no pre-existing programs to satisfy and no political baggage to consider. Your only guideline is to allow the continued growth of solar power and distributed … Association (SEPA) posed to energy stakeholders in its 51st State Initiative . This crowdsourcing competition, launched in 2014, sought to encourage constructive conversations about distributed energy resources by soliciting energy …
… to see how this relationship works (or doesn’t) in person. On March 4th, I drove the hour up Interstate 91 from New Haven to Avon and slipped into the back row of the library to … a voice interrupted her. “You can get batteries to act as a back-up system, but that, of course, adds cost. You’d want to do an analysis of whether it’s better to combine your panels … San Diego concluded that cleaning panels on a 5-kilowatt system halfway through the summer would only translate into a $20 gain in electricity production—easily exceeding the …
… in states where the government hasn’t done so,” said Eitan Hochster, a researcher at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and one of the report’s authors. “What is clear … rather than direct subsidies. “True scale is only possible with wise policies to encourage network development,” according to Jeffrey Schub, executive director of the Coalition … rather than direct subsidies. “True scale is only possible with wise policies to encourage network development,” according to Jeffrey Schub, executive director of the Coalition …