… The Clean Energy Finance Forum advances the understanding and growth of energy efficiency finance and renewable energy finance markets in the United States by providing high-quality industry news, building professional dialogue and fostering innovation. Alongside its signature biweekly … energy finance markets in the United States by providing high-quality industry news, building professional dialogue and fostering innovation. Alongside its signature biweekly …
… In recent years, energy efficiency financing strategies have gained prominence in a number of leading … point toward the importance of understanding the impact and potential of energy efficiency financing strategies. In this webinar, we identify and explore many of the … strategy. Please join us for a webinar on a recent report from the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network, Making It Count: Understanding the Value of Energy Efficiency …
… In recent years, energy efficiency financing strategies have gained prominence in a number of leading … point toward the importance of understanding the impact and potential of energy efficiency financing strategies. Please join us for a webinar on a recent report from the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network, Making It Count: Understanding the Value of Energy Efficiency …
… of addressing climate change and the evolving electric grid require a "next level of energy efficiency" to mobilize energy savings that go beyond historical practice and integrate with … webinar will describe Stanford University's research project on this next generation of efficiency. It will outline five specific challenges ahead that must be overcome - increasing the magnitude of savings; diversifying energy efficiency resources; measuring and ensuring the persistence of energy efficiency savings; …
… into fleet operations. An ESCO is a business that designs, finances, and implements energy efficiency improvements. The ESCO model is widely used in buildingefficiency projects but has only recently been applied to EV fleet conversions. … finances, and implements energy efficiency improvements. The ESCO model is widely used in buildingefficiency projects but has only recently been applied to EV fleet conversions. …
… finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the EfficientBuildings Fund (EBF) and is iteratively improving it. This bank, which combines … 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 …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a substantial percentage of its greenhouse-gas emissions. Given that it will take decades for these buildings to be replaced, the rigorous standards developed in recent years for new buildings … 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 …
… 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 broaden the market for home energy-efficiency upgrades. In New York State, those upgrades face two key barriers to widespread … time. Second, while large-scale investors are increasingly familiar with residential energy-efficiency financing, they don’t use energy savings in their underwriting criteria. So the …
… a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting observations and building models linking an increase in CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere to the general … 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 … market. 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 …
… Join Peter Boyd, Social Entrepreneur & CBEY Executive Fellow-in-Residence, for Building a Social Impact Business Plan. Peter has judged Sobotka and Sabin Prizes, and spent … Yale The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute 2462 Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Building a Social Impact Business Plan … Building a Social Impact Business Plan Friday, February 3rd, 2017, 6:30 AM EST — 8:00 AM EST …