… its presence in the United States market. In the previous five years, Trina, a company with manufacturing and headquarters in Changzhou, China, had managed to grow rapidly by … market during 2007-10 had allowed Trina to quickly establish strong relationships with some of the continent’s leading developers of solar projects. Trina supplied modules … to add solar panels to their roofs. Trina had already partnered with three distributors of electrical equipment in the United States to reach the residential market. But were there …
… The road to SELCO’s success, however, has not always been smooth. Hande cofounded SELCO (with Neville Williams) in 1995 to sell and service photovoltaic (PV) systems in his home … Investors put pressure on Hande to lay off employees and contract the organization. With the help of the World Bank’s commercial finance arm, the International Finance … SELCO remained a for-profit business, but Hande was able to seek new investors more aligned with its mission. In addition, Hande was able to keep his sales and service organization …
… other environmental, social, and economic disasters — have changed this. Following the US’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on November 4, it is up to corporations to take direct … Professor of Operations Management at Yale School of Management Experts, Faculty Download the Report File Download file Areas of Focus Clean Energy Corporate Sustainability Related Initiatives Financing …
… designing and financing a Green Resilience Hub (GRH). GRHs are physical facilities equipped with clean energy technologies and strategically located to offer vital services to local … infrastructure that can provide essential community services–even during disruptions to the electrical grid. As a group of master’s students at the Yale School of the Environment, we … designing a GRH. These steps include involving the community, determining what electricalloads will be backed up, sizing a battery, choosing a technology mix, and creating …
… The Upgrade to $ave Program provides Roanoke Electric Cooperative (REC) and its customers with a simple yet powerful energy-efficiency-financing product. To date, the program has … of Energy’s Office of Policy & International Affairs from 2009 to 2013. CEW approached REC with a win-win proposal describing how PAYS® could help build the local economy while … Source The Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of Focus Clean Energy Download file. … The Upgrade to $ave Program provides Roanoke Electric Cooperative (REC) and its …
… two energy generation datasets: the hourly wind output profiles and the hourly electricity load data at more than 1000 geographic locations within the Eastern Interconnect of the United States for the years 2004-2006. This data was … two energy generation datasets: the hourly wind output profiles and the hourly electricity load data at more than 1000 geographic locations within the Eastern Interconnect of the …
… consists of several stages. The first entails a series of in-depth, ethnographic interviews with actors from a diverse set of settings and stakeholder groups. These interviews were designed to a) provide a clear map of the relevant stakeholders within each setting, b) identify the main process, challenges, and level of success observed … ethnographic interviews were conducted (some on-site in different states of New England) with representatives of each of the relevant stakeholder groups including environmentalists, …
… project received a significant boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with abundant wind resources, absent a creditworthy off-taker the project would not have been able to line up financing. With Walmart de México’s 15-year PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) in hand, the developers were … México could consider. Any project that Walmart de México undertook had to work in concert with Mexico’s electricity grid and rate-making structure. Mexico’s political leadership had …
… of Environmental Defense's Texas Office and head of the Texas Climate Initiative. You meet with him and learn that he needs help preparing for an unusual negotiation. Marston will be flying to San Francisco for a negotiating session with the private equity firms seeking to acquire Texas electrical utility TXU, and he needs your immediate feedback. The private equity firms want …
… to spread the cost over time. Second, while large-scale investors are increasingly familiar with residential energy-efficiency financing, they don’t use energy savings in their … a solution to these challenges. To guide other green-bank-like entities that are familiar with the deployment of debt financing to help stand up large-scale generation projects, this … Business and the Environment Areas of Focus Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Download file. … NY Green Bank (NYGB), New York State’s $1-billion clean-energy fund, and a …