… Today, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) opened its new certificate in Financing and Deploying … want to advance their careers as well as the transition to a clean economy. Vero Bourg-Meyer, Program Director, Clean Energy and Conservation Finance, Brad Gentry, the newly … nature of this program. “There is not one solution to climate change,” said Bourg-Meyer. “What we need, and what this program does, is bring together people with diverse expertise …
… -by Stephanie Hsiung (F&ES '19) Smarter and more affordable technologies are leading more and … of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in homes, the continued growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), and the rise of the prosumer. Excitement about new opportunities and … in the smart home, and ushers in the next generation of residential demand management (whatsome are calling virtual power plants or VPPs). The question is will it be utilities …
… Introduction of Solarize and SEEDS II Solarize is a unique community-based program that leverages peers and social networks to encourage residential solar adoption through a group pricing strategy. Solarize campaigns … Solar: Does Messaging Matter? Retrieved February 19, 2019, from https://cbey.yale.edu/our-stories/accelerating-residential-solar-does-messaging-matter. HUD Rent and Income Limits. …
… The popularity of solar energy skyrocketed in South Carolina (SC) with the introduction of net metering in … passed its landmark energy bill. Act 236, also known as the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) program, which created a net-metering system permitting residential and … non-profit SmartPower to conduct a series of rigorous controlled field trials that explore what motivates residential solar installation. In 2017 and 2018, SEEDS II conducted Solarize …
… A common story in the world of heating and cooling is that households tend to wait until their old … pump installations in Connecticut supported by a grant from United Illuminating and Eversource in the period 2012 through 2017. Top: Heat pump installations per 1000 residents. … and cooling system is used most often and typically serves the whole house. Figure 2 showswhat tends to trigger the installation of primary heating systems. Figure 2: Triggers to …
… The Renewable Thermal Alliance (RTA) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s RTA Seed Innovation Grant. By providing $20,000 to each of the four winners, the grant will support novel approaches to supporting low-carbon heating and … breadth and quality of this year’s applicants to demonstrate how a grant like this is just what’s needed to spur renewable thermal market innovation,” said Stuart DeCew, Executive …
… Each year the Yale Center for Business and the Environment gives teams applying to the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize the opportunity to be matched with a mentor from our network of partners and experts. Sabin Mentors commit a minimum of two hours to advising … file-default","data-delta":"11"}}]] Makaela Kingsley Director, Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Wesleyan University …
… Solarize is a solar adoption program in which a community pairs with a solar installer to … provides fixed, advantageous contracting rates to customers and simplifies the process, encouraging high rates of adoption. (See the Solarize Your Community guidebook for more … Take figure 1, which shows the solar permits pulled in Barrington, Rhode Island from 2015 to 2017. Figure 1: Solar permits in Barrington (Map created by Barrington Town Planner …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is announcing a very generous and transformative donation … The Gift The gift will help CBEY expand its rapidly growing focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, develop an online certificate program in clean energy finance, and … its work on innovation and entrepreneurship, CBEY has established itself as a leading resource on clean energy finance. The new gift will expand this work in two ways. First, CBEY, …
… “There’s no better time to start a company than while you’re at school,” she says. “What do you have to lose?” The first thing she needed was the right idea, and she found it … arbitrage.” Due to the low marginal cost of renewable energy, electricity from renewable sources is cheaper than from conventional sources, but it is not available all the time. If … started a company!” 2621 Clean Energy Environmental Innovation Equity and Justice Sabin Stories: PowerHouse … Apr 10, 2018 Sabin Stories: PowerHouse Ben Soltoff (MBA '19, Master of …