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… What is hindering the availability of public capital and financing options for distributed solar? To some in structured finance, it seems like a great fit: solar … can be pooled and traded as liquid capital. In order to profit from this great opportunity for solar growth, investors and consumers demand standards and consistency from the … uniform documents minimize due diligence costs and uncertainty for all parties – customers, companies, regulators and investors. For customers and investors doing solar deals, …
… Originally posted on the Clean Energy Finance Forum Imagine you could design the electricity market in one state from scratch. There are … conversations about distributed energy resources by soliciting energy market designs for a hypothetical state. Of the 13 proposals, three were selected by the Innovation Review Panel for further development at a recently held SEPA summit: Karl Rábago and Jim Kennerly: “ The …
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… On a night when most of Connecticut fretted about the bleak, snowy forecast, 15 residents of Avon considered a bright, sunny future. They were gathered in the … is like a rippling wave—word of solar expanding ever outward. Or so I’d been told. As a research assistant for SEEDS , a project that is tracking the Solarize program, I had read a … the benefits of solar just as much as Astrum. The complex social networks depicted in SEEDS research papers suddenly lit to life for me in the library room. I could visualize Bernie as …
… that states interested in boosting EV adoption rates should support the purchase of cars before investing in charging stations. With more EVs on the road, the private market will … against those in Georgia and California, two states with leading rates of EV adoption, the researchers helped bring clarity to this debate. “It’s not at all clear that states funding … requesting $650 million to build chargers in California. It’s important now to look at the data on how public chargers affect EV purchases and how the economics of these chargers …
… in the Solar Energy Education and Diffusion Study (SEEDS) , a Department of Energy funded research program. Since 2010, 58 Connecticut towns have participated in five rounds of this … campaign. The research teams at Duke and Yale then interviewed participants and analyzed data to understand what worked and what didn’t, collecting attributes of the optimal solar … and knowledgeable about solar. Solar Ambassadors and trusted town officials then advocated for the program and the installer through word of mouth, local publications, signs around …
… resulting limited usage of public chargers. Building up higher station usage is necessary for EV infrastructure to become more financially viable and therefore become widespread. … height:216px; width:300px; float:left","class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]]Our work has indicated that this is not necessarily the case. Our … participants who can benefit from a more robust EV charging ecosystem. To read the full research report, please download the PDF . The article above is the executive summary of a …
… of 2014, approximately $6.57 trillion US-domiciled assets were under management with some form of SRI strategy, up from approximately $3 trillion in 2010. This represents more than … the sector must simultaneously engage two ends of a spectrum: existing multinational companies interested in sustainability issues alongside emerging, transformative companies … impact. It’s a tall order. But with all the environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, investment vehicles and thematic issues being discussed at venues like the US …
… a switch, or that water will flow from a faucet. When Paul Lussier introduced the panel for CBEY's "Sustainability, Transparency, and Metrics in Business" event on April 22nd, he … Partnerships, presented the results of Edelman's most recent Trust Barometer survey. The research, which takes an annual look at how people across the globe place trust in … ways in which the EPI team is able to compile its reports. Relying on publicly available datasets means that the EPI has to trust how countries report on their actions, but it also …