… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these practices into one space creates an efficient and sustainable … to choose between fuel or farming, climate or conservation, energy or rural economies. But with thoughtful planning, communities can simultaneously expand and strengthen solar …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to … grid. The Yale team recommended a hybrid solar-wind-storage system, plus a backup gas generator, to optimize cost and reliability. Key Points Large commercial and small industrial … clean power while maintaining reliability. Businesses can benefit from consultants with specific insights in renewable energy to design and implement personalized renewable …
… 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 … unable to achieve these goals due to inherent limitations of a market for RECs. In states with the most aggressive clean energy policies, the shortcomings of RPSs are becoming more …
… 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 prevent market emergence are relatively simple and well understood; the stakeholder groups are … consists of several stages. The first entails a series of in-depth, ethnographic interviews with actors from a diverse set of settings and stakeholder groups. These interviews were …
… complicated by land use tensions and trade-offs. At seven acres of land per megawatt of generating capacity, solar has a sizable land footprint — one that is only expected to grow as … unmonetized by the traditional market forces that drive solar project development. Without guidance on how to fully account for the value of ecosystem service generation, … solar projects by monetizing the environmental benefits that projects generate. Next, we review the potential of an ecosystem services market in Minnesota to meet the dual …
… 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 locations within the Eastern Interconnect of the United States for the years 2004-2006. This data was …
… Executive Summary As utility-scale solar development expands throughout the United States, with an expected land footprint of 3 million acres by 2030,1 there is growing interest … solar, and farming. Our analysis reveals that pollinator-friendly solar may generate private benefits to solar developers that justify its adoption without policy … turfgrass. However, we hypothesize that information and behavioral failures are currently preventing developers from adopting the practice. Thus, there may be a role for policy to spur …
… When it comes to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by … other environmental, social, and economic disasters — have changed this. Following the US’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on November 4, it is up to corporations to take direct … can be drawn from them. 7684 7685 7686 Clean Energy Corporate Sustainability Net Zero: The Next Frontier for Corporate Sustainability … Net Zero: The Next Frontier for Corporate …
… a unique opportunity to help reverse these trends. Time spent in nature has been associated with improved psychological functioning, overall mental health, and connection to place for … literature, and youth-mental-health experts to generate recommendations for the next generation of nature-health programming in America. This report reviews the state of … through outdoor programming Elizabeth Himschoot (Master of Environmental Management '21) Jessica Lloyd (Master of Forestry '20) Aaron Reuben (Master of Environmental Management '12) …
… technology, and whether the technology is correctly used. Social science and marketing literature on diffusion of technologies has stressed the importance of social networks in … methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming households. The survey focused on the socioeconomic characteristics of the … an area — to increase the likelihood that one person will know several seed farmers. This next step involved training the extension workers in how to talk to the selected seed …