… 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 … of cases to explore in full depth. A second stage entails the selection of two to four well-matched cases (for information on matched comparisons see George and Bennett, 2004) …
… is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. This will have catastrophic effects on human … the Business Roundtable, B Corps, and benefit corporations. Greenwashing — a form of marketing that creates a false perception of a company’s 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 …
… The objective of this project was to develop a new economic formula for maximizing present value of net benefits of wind farm investment. This research … developed two models: 1) the wind turbine (WT) reliability prediction model and 2) the “Four-Quadrant Component/Subsystem Maintenance Model.” The WT reliability prediction model was … Studies: Air Pollution Control, Environmental Risk Assessment, and Introduction to Green Energy. Future Activities As a result of this project, the investigators are preparing …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. The investigators found that consumers tend to infer that green … heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making … Nature Based Solutions Participants George E. Newman Associate Professor of Management and Marketing at Yale School of Management george.newman@yale.edu … George E. Newman … The …
… is used. RPSs have been unable to achieve these goals due to inherent limitations of a marketfor RECs. In states with the most aggressive clean energy policies, the shortcomings of RPSs … 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 …
… This project involved the collection of two energy generation datasets: the hourly wind output profiles and the hourly electricity load data at more than 1000 geographic … on the cost scenarios developed in stage two. This analysis includes different costs of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the policies can then be compared on the basis of their … and results of this research in the “Renewable Technologies” component of the Energy Market Strategy course taught at the Yale School of Management. The topics are discussed in …
… report provides a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility of designing and financing a Green Resilience Hub (GRH). GRHs are physical facilities equipped with clean energy … technologies and strategically located to offer vital services to local communities before, during, and after emergencies such as natural disasters. The primary goal of this … 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 …
… This report explores this so-called chicken-and-egg dilemma and provides recommendations for growing the EV market and increasing investment in EV charging stations. We compare EV markets across … in terms of EVs as a percentage of new car registrations and number of chargers per capita. Our analysis suggests that the best way for policymakers to facilitate the growth of the …
… and evolution as they attempt to stay ahead of government regulations, competitors, and new market entrants. In this rapidly evolving world, they face numerous obstacles when it comes … model and promotes the elimination of waste through the continual use of natural resources. This holistic framework allows companies to evaluate the environmental impact of … natural resource use and minimizing waste. This framework is particularly salient for industries with limited product life cycles. Images of plastic in the ocean, …
… goal—net-zero emissions by 2050—to the level of an organization? This report defines four ways to make a net-zero commitment clear to an organization’s stakeholders: What scope … proportional to the organization’s global contribution to climate change? Are offsetting investments tied to the Paris Agreement’s global carbon budget? And does the commitment account for the greenhouse gases the organization has put into the atmosphere in the past? A shared …