… have made significant contributions to renewable energy deployment. A truly clean electricity grid, however, will need to rely on zero-carbon energy throughout the day and … power generates electricity during the day, but fails to provide energy during the evening hours when demand peaks. The resulting overproduction and waste of renewable energy — and … Download the Report File Download file Areas of Focus Clean Energy Related Initiatives Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Certificate Program Related Programs Clean Energy …
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… on November 4, it is up to corporations to take direct responsibility for their impact on climate change. While many corporations, investors, regulators, and consumers … environmental sustainability — exacerbates this confusion. To cut through the noise, our team from the Yale School of Management narrowed in on one, universal metric that is the … File Download file Areas of Focus Clean Energy Corporate Sustainability Related Initiatives Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Certificate Program Related Programs The …
… 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 … 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 … and takeaways from the energy and financial model we developed using Microsoft Excel. Our energy and financial model, published with this report, is built using the Connecticut …
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… Mexico meet its ambitious goals addressing climate change. Third, biofuels could provide a new market for Mexico's struggling agricultural sector. Finally, PEMEX would soon face … ethanol for fuel as well 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 maximum amount that could be incorporated without …
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… to seek an alternative powertrain that did not use fossil fuels. For GM, the search for a new powertrain required a substantial change in mindset, since the ICE had been a mainstay … prototypes with an array of technologies; including diesel, battery, hybrid gas and electric systems, and hydrogen fuel cells. While GM researchers had made progress by 1998, … Besides the technical hurdles it was facing, GM’s efforts to introduce more fuel efficient vehicles had run into resistance from consumers, oil companies and the government. While …
… effectiveness of existing policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and identify new strategies. Connecticut’s government had already set a target of reducing greenhouse gas … 1996 and 2015, natural gas largely replaced the dirtier fossil fuels coal and oil for electricity generation to provide almost half of the state’s electricity and one-third of … down natural gas by 2050, putting further pressure on keeping or expanding nuclear. On the other hand, there are ongoing health and safety, environment, and security concerns about …