… At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the … near Phoenix, Arizona. At the end of 2010, Japanese company Kyocera announced that it wasbuilding a solar module plant near San Diego, California. Sharp and Solarworld, … developing B2C channels to tap into the growing market of local contractors and do-it-yourselfers looking to add solar panels to their roofs. Trina had already partnered with …
… In 2014, the Connecticut Green Bank released the second edition of its CT Solar Lease program in an attempt to create an accessible financing solution for independent … structure of the program and presents the lessons learned from implementation challenges. Source The Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of FocusSustainable Finance …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power to India's poor. For the work of his company, Hande … how the company might expand. The company decided to institutionalize its design process by building an innovation center. SELCO also added products that provided energy solutions …
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… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solar market, it … renewable portfolio standard (RPS) was being predominantly met with out-of-state resources from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, yielding little economic development benefits …
… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the … was placed under increased scrutiny. In addition to being used as a cooking oil, it is in our cookies, ourshampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plant with efficient, … other vegetable oils, production pressures have led to undeniable environmental and social impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those impactsstem from …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing buildingstock that is responsible for a substantial percentage of its greenhouse-gas … both the investment cost for energy-efficiency upgrades and the subsequent cost savings. Source Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of FocusSustainable Finance and …
… y Centroamérica decided to buy the power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’sstruggling project received a significant boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with abundant wind resources, absent a creditworthy off-taker the project would not have been able to line up … Gómez was also considering the mix of renewable energy sources. In addition to wind, solar and mini-hydroelectric projects were possibilities that Walmart de México could …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining hallsserve more … and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast majority of the food comes from sources other than the Yale Farm). Within a few years the founding group had expanded beyond …
… After the recession, the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB), a quasi-public state entity, sought to … finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the Efficient Buildings Fund (EBF) and is iteratively improving it. This bank, which combines the features … walk through the creation of the EBF and some of the factors that have led to itssuccess. Source Center for Business and The Environment at Yale Areas of FocusSustainable Finance and …