… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable energy generation, have made … energy where and when it is most valuable. Increase profitability of storage investments by valuing the time-dependent characteristics of electricity. Encourage renewable energy siting … outcomes. These proposals tend to fragment markets, resulting in poor economic efficiency. Meanwhile, proposals to make renewable energy subsidy markets more robust result …
… NY Green Bank (NYGB), New York State’s $1-billion clean-energy fund, and a young new efficiency company named Sealed signed a $5-million loan-financing agreement as a way to … the deployment of debt financing to help stand up large-scale generation projects, this case shows how a similar structure can be used for residential energyefficiency. …
… Infrastructure Bank (RIIB), a quasi-public state entity, sought to bring much-needed clean-energy finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the Efficient Buildings Fund (EBF) and is … Rhode Island Public Energy Partnership (RIPEP) was temporarily accelerating utility energy-efficiency efforts. The new state leadership created the RIIB. It was built by renaming and …
… Walmart de México undertook had to work in concert with Mexico’s electricity grid and rate-making structure. Mexico’s political leadership had announced a commitment to electricity from renewable energy sources, to move the country away from its traditional reliance on natural gas and oil. Mexico’s … Corporate Sustainability Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Access the Complete Case … When Walmart de México y Centroamérica decided to buy the power generated by the …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these practices into one space … solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This emerging form of renewable energy blends complementary land uses and eliminates the false “food or energy” dichotomy … Clean Energy Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice Related Programs Clean Energy Finance Forum Related Reports Maximizing Land Use Benefits From …
… 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 … and c) provide enough background information to allow for the careful selection of cases to explore in full depth. A second stage entails the selection of two to four …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to … file Areas of Focus Clean Energy Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Related Programs Clean Energy Finance Forum Certificate Program in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Planetary Solutions in Clean Energy … Five Yale …
… This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility of 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 communities … model, published with this report, is built using the Connecticut Green Bank campus as a case study. It is designed to be easily adapted to analyze other projects. The model uses …
… given the component failure. These four maintenance strategies include: i) time-based preventative maintenance using visual inspection; ii) scheduled condition-based maintenance … content of this research in three courses at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Air Pollution Control, Environmental Risk Assessment, and Introduction to Green … the adverse environmental impacts. Photo from Tobias von der Haar/flickr Clean EnergyMaking Wind Power Competitive Using Risk-Informed and Performance-Based Maintenance …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a … 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 …