… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable energy generation, have made … symptoms of poor renewable energy integration — call for a dramatic change to clean energypolicy development. Our research team proposes a new policy framework called the value-based … Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Certificate Program Related Programs Clean EnergyFinance Forum … Jane Culkin … Erik Lyon … Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these practices into one space … for a broad audience, also examines how communities, solar developers, local leaders, and policymakers can effectively promote, support, and regulate agrivoltaic systems. Clean … Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice Related Programs Clean EnergyFinance Forum Related Reports Maximizing Land Use Benefits From Utility-Scale Solar Key …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to achieve independence from the local energy grid. The Yale team recommended a hybrid solar-wind-storage system, plus a backup gas … Clean Energy Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Related Programs Clean EnergyFinance Forum Certificate Program in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Planetary …
… Infrastructure Bank (RIIB), a quasi-public state entity, sought to bring much-needed clean-energyfinance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the Efficient … Portfolio Standard and a Systems Benefit Charge, which it leverages to support clean-energy activities. The Rhode Island Public Energy Partnership (RIPEP) was temporarily …
… meet ambitious goals, looking to reduce waste in its and its suppliers' operations. In the energy area, the company was hoping to receive 50% of its energy from renewable sources by 2015, even in a period of rapid growth, increasing its … Monterrey, Mexico City Clean Energy Corporate Sustainability Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Walmart de México: Investing in Renewable Energy … Walmart de México: …
… Solar Industry? 2796 6778 2798 2745 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture … use requirements of large-scale solar projects is a critical component of renewable energypolicy development. From a land use impact perspective, solar installations are relatively …
… of greenhouse gases that these buildings emit and reduce their operating costs. While these energy-efficiency upgrades are often cash-flow-positive with the right loans, they have … Financial institutions are reluctant to lend when any claim that they might make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental … 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 …
… the institutions required to sustain a new market. What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular is that, across settings, the issues that prevent market emergence are relatively simple and well understood; the stakeholder groups are … environmentalists, developers, utilities, turbine manufacturers, local and federal policy makers, and academia. Interviews lasted, on average, 1.5 hours and yielded more than …
… 12, 2017, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government bestowed the prestigious Ash award in policy innovation, the "Nobel of policy," upon the Connecticut Green Bank for its role in … movement." The Green Bank used financial structuring to attract private capital to clean energy projects in Connecticut. Using transaction enablers and risk mitigants like loan … And what trade-offs existed between goals of demonstrating the performance of clean energyfinance assets to the private sector, supplying as much capital to the market as possible, …
… benefits to those connected to the network when the total number connected increases. This policy brief discusses the importance of network effects in settings where the services … are used to discuss the potential analogy to the electricity context. 2198 6785 Clean Energy Equity and Justice Network Effect Benefits From Electricity Grid Connections - A … About the Authors About the Authors Kenneth Gillingham Professor of Environmental & Energy Economics at Yale School of the Environment Faculty Marten Ovaere Assistant Professor …