… 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 … and in native villages. Note: Lizana Pierce edited the information in her quote on 10/13/2015. This article first appeard in our Clean Energy Finance Forum Join our LinkedIn group …
… It has only been a week since the stunning revelation that the Volkswagen group equipped millions … cars with software designed to fool anybody testing their emissions, and just dayssince the company’s chief executive, Martin Winterkorn , resigned. And yet there are … EDT Online Related NewsSOM, 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 & … varying aspects of the growing role that sustainability plays in corporate enterprises today—and its challenges. Read the full story on the Yale SOM website. Equity and Justice … Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Summer Lessons in Sustainability … Sep 24, 2015Summer Lessons in Sustainability At a panel discussion on September 15, Yale School of …
… A quick scan of sustainability events over this period reveals a series of newsstories, beginning with Silent Spring, that have become household names — the crash of the … 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 … them after the fact. The good news is that these sustainability Black Swans might be whatsave us all. As with the example of Silent Spring, some Black Swan events have positive …
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… Originally posted on the Clean Energy Finance Forum Imagine you could design the electricity market in … 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 … You’re given a blank slate on which to envision a long-term, sustainable energy market. What would it look like? This was the challenge that Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) …
… On a night when most of Connecticut fretted about the bleak, snowy forecast, 15 residents of Avon considered a … 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 … “There are a lot of trees here in Avon, and sometimes those trees fall and cut the power. What happens when the grid goes down? Can I run the electricity for my home off the panels?” …
… A new in-depth report on the electrical vehicle (EV) market suggests that states interested in boosting EV adoption ratesshould support the purchase of … at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and one of the report’s authors. “What is clear is that high usage rates—having more EVs on the road—is necessary to make … 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 …
… On April 15 th , students, professors from Duke and Yale Universities, and executives from non-profit … teams at Duke and Yale then interviewed participants and analyzed data to understand what worked and what didn’t, collecting attributes of the optimal solar campaign. In the … events including solar workshops, live-installations for the public and community tours of homes that already had solar. As more people signed up, the price fell further. A …
… The process of sowing the seeds of electric vehicle infrastructure – and thereby creating a backbone … stations and consumer purchases of EVs. EVs are becoming an increasingly large part of our clean energy economy and are a vital element of sustainable transportation. Because of … Clean Energy Financing Electric Vehicle Markets in New York and Other States … Jun 08, 2015 Financing Electric Vehicle Markets in New York and Other States A research report …