… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable energy generation, 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 … outcomes. These proposals tend to fragment markets, resulting in poor economic efficiency. Meanwhile, proposals to make renewable energy subsidy markets more robust result …
… 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 …
… (RTT), especially heat pumps paired with solar, have the potential to dramatically decrease energy consumption and by extension energy emissions. Using information from the Residential … there, we investigated how much air-source heat pumps and ground-source heat pumps could lower both electricity and natural gas consumption and carbon emissions. Then, we … increasing the adoption of these technologies by increasing awareness and expanding energyefficiency programs. We believe that existing efficiency programs can be an effective …
… present value of net benefits of wind farm investment. This research model offers the following advantages: a) the ability to evaluate the benefit of expenditure on maintenance … model, strategies were proposed based on component reliability and its contribution to the energy generation loss in kilowatt-hours given the component failure. These four maintenance … and quantifying the adverse environmental impacts. Photo from Tobias von der Haar/flickr CleanEnergy Making Wind Power Competitive Using Risk-Informed and Performance-Based …
… This project involved the collection of two energy generation datasets: the hourly wind output profiles and the hourly electricity load … master’s student to help create a set of scenarios of future capital and variable costs associated with different electricity generating technologies. To create these … are discussed in the context of government policies designed to promote renewable energy. CleanEnergy The Impact of Government Policies on the Mix of Intermittent & Dispatchable …
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… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to … recommended a hybrid solar-wind-storage system, plus a backup gas generator, to optimize cost and reliability. Key Points Large commercial and small industrial operations can utilize 100% renewable hybrid configurations to self-generate clean power while maintaining reliability. Businesses can benefit from consultants with …
… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate and create 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 … Enterprise and renewable energy. Photo from Tobias von der Haar/flickr Equity and Justice CleanEnergy Environmental Innovation Institutional Entrepreneurship and Renewable Energy in …
… 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 … and policymakers can effectively promote, support, and regulate agrivoltaic systems. CleanEnergy Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice …