… the U.S. Climate Alliance are Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, four northeastern states that have set goals of reducing GHG emissions 80 percent below 1990 … Renewable Thermal Strategy (CARTS) report paved the way for greater interest and investment in RTT by highlighting opportunities by customer class, customers’ building … sources with lower GHG emissions rates. The CTGB uses financing as a tool to leverage private capital in increasing RTT deployment and sees subsidies as a market kick-start …
… thermal technologies (RTTs) used for heating and cooling, such as air- and ground-source heat pumps (ASHP and GSHP, respectively) and solar hot water (SHW) systems are no exception. A field study conducted at Yale found that the biggest … finds that consumers have unreasonably high discount rates (25-36%) when evaluating EE investments, meaning that people value a dollar saved tomorrow disproportionately less than …
… If you’ve ever considered installing solar panels on your roof, you’ve probably asked two basic questions: How much does it cost? And how long before I earn back my investment? The short answer is: it depends. Solar costs are declining rapidly, the industry … several years have published studies that attribute quantitative value to distributed solar resources, seeking to put to rest the debate over whether they provide benefits or impose …
… This took place as part of the “ Internal Carbon Pricing: Practical Experiences from the Private Sector ” webinar series. The representatives from Mahindra were Pawan Goenka, … operations; and Anirban Ghosh, chief sustainability officer. A Sustainability Journey At an investor meeting in 2008, the issue of triple bottom line was raised, prompting … lighting. This is expected to cost $4 million with a payback under one year. “All of ourinvestments so far have had a clear financial justification. At least for now, the carbon …
… years ahead of schedule. [2] But why? Why do people decide to install solar? Over the last four years, Yale’s Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies (SEEDS)* team has interviewed … more frequently than low-income families, despite the fact that solar could be a profitable investment for either group. Seeking an answer to why this is, the SEEDS team recently … or letters to the editor. These findings indicate that having a conversation with someone can very effectively transfer information. In both income groups, those who attended a …
… is used for heating and cooling purposes. As a result, heating and cooling is both a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and, through the installation of renewable technologies … of around 1,700 trillion BTUs in New England and New York together, representing a large investment opportunity for renewable heating and cooling. "Renewable thermal technologies … and CEO of the Green Bank. “Through the Renewable Thermal Alliance, we hope to attract more privateinvestment in the economies of the Northeast to deploy more of these important …
… electricity, but holds an enormous reservoir of possibility for utilizing local resources to off-set fossil fuels. Like renewable electricity, renewable heating and cooling … Innovative financial products and strategies to improve the value proposition of RTT investments are needed to help the financing of RTTs achieve scale; this, in turn, will … Green Bank. "By working together with Avangrid, Eversource, and Yale we can attract privateinvestment to scale-up the deployment of renewable thermal technology while creating …
… Sabin Stories introduce you to former finalists and winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize … on their time as student entrepreneurs at Yale. “The Sabin Prize gave us a year to test our ideas ” shares Max Webster, YC’ 12, co-founder of Weave and a winner of the Sabin … funding at such an early state of the venture. Max is grateful for the wealth of resources he had at Yale. Upon graduation, the YEI fellowship allowed him and Shwerin to …
… in the third webinar of the “Internal Carbon Pricing: Practical Experiences from the Private Sector” series. The webinar was opened by Emily Farnworth of the World Economic … and successful execution of the carbon fee. How It All Began “The carbon fee is essentially our own corporate carbon tax, and it is putting us on a path to a net-zero-emissions world,” … The carbon fee is calculated by dividing the total cost of environmental initiatives and investments needed to get the company to net-zero carbon by the projected total emissions …
… 2, 2016, the webinar series “Internal Carbon Pricing: Practical Experiences from the Private Sector” featured a conversation on Yale University’s carbon charge . Yale was the … project that involved twenty campus buildings and tested the design and implementation of four different carbon-pricing schemes. In the webinar, representatives from Yale shared the … the carbon charge revenues were returned to the units and earmarked for energy efficiency investment. This design guaranteed investment in sustainability, but can lead to over- or …