… After the recession, the Rhode Island 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 … 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 …
… Change (GC3), a group charged with creating a comprehensive climate strategy for the State of Connecticut. As of September 2016, Garcia remained undecided about a key element of … that strategy – nuclear power plants. There were strong proponents and opponents of nuclear energy on the GC3 and Garcia was weighing each side’s arguments before announcing his own … Malloy established the GC3 on Earth Day 2015 to examine the effectiveness of existing policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and identify new strategies. …
… Before the federal government discontinued the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Qualified Energy Conservation Bond (QECB) program in … of its tax reform package, states like Virginia leveraged this program to accomplish energyefficiency goals. When evaluating how to use Virginia’s QECB allocation, decision makers …
… 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 failed to … The EUA is a deal structure modeled on property-assessed clean energy (PACE) in the United States. It allows loans for building upgrades to be paid back via a surcharge on local …
… 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 … the Green Bank lowered the cost of capital for consumers and businesses to install energyefficiency upgrades and renewable technology. It supported the banking industry in offering … But back in Connecticut, trouble was brewing. A contingent of leaders in the State House were calling for both a raid of the organization’s balance sheet, and a dramatic …
… the Residential Solar Investment Program (RSIP) by creating the Solar Home Renewable Energy Credit (SHREC). The SHREC provides a stable funding structure for an expanded RSIP. … promises in 2015 was to increase the RSIP tenfold. Meanwhile, the reliance on renewable-energy credits (RECs) to satisfy the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) was being predominantly met with out-of-state …
… no ethanol had been incorporated into Mexico's gasoline supply. As Mexican policy makers looked at the country's energy supply, they expected that substituting bioethanol for some portion of gasoline fuel … as for rum. Ethanol had become a major gasoline component in other countries. In the United States, ethanol from corn made up as much as 8% of the vehicle fuel blend at the pump, the …
… South Africa did not provide subsidies for crop insurance. To underwrite these agricultural policies, Santam used its risk assessment expertise and decades of weather-related data to … the challenge of using cost-benefit analysis to determine which of these options was the best for the company and its policyholders. Santam was also taking a deep look at the strategy of climate resilience and how it might build its crop insurance …
… to the atmosphere, scientists at General Motors, the world’s largest automaker, had started looking at the greenhouse effect in the mid-1980s. The wide-ranging discussions within GM had led to an ambitious program to improve the efficiency of internal combustion engines (ICE) and to seek an alternative powertrain that … would bring their greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels within 15 years. The United States had signed the agreement, but most observers believed that the agreement would not be …
… on building a software platform named the Wildlife Management Analytics system or WMA, were looking for a way to market the product. The WMA, which made camera trap data on … could be run. HPQ had licensed the software to CI and the nonprofit believed that the best way to distribute the WMA was to sell access to the software, offsetting some of its … in trying to implement their plan. How should CI determine pricing for the software while advancing its objectives as a nonprofit organization? How did this initiative fit into CI’s …