… movement." The Green Bank used financial structuring to attract private capital to clean energy projects in Connecticut. Using transaction enablers and risk mitigants like loan … the Green Bank lowered the cost of capital for consumers and businesses to install energyefficiency upgrades and renewable technology. It supported the banking industry in offering … sheet? And if so for how long? What were the political, economic, and climate risks and opportunities of a slower transition? And what trade-offs existed between goals of …
… provides Roanoke Electric Cooperative (REC) and its customers with a simple yet powerful energy-efficiency-financing product. To date, the program has performed much better than expected. … program uses the PAYS® framework. PAYS® is an on-bill-financing solution developed by Clean Energy Works (CEW), an organization founded by Dr. Holmes Hummel, who served as the Senior …
… the institutions 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 … and market creation, business-government relations, non-market strategy, and renewable energy. The grant provided the researchers leverage to raise an additional $5,000 from a group of Yale donors interested in Social Enterprise and renewable energy. Photo from Tobias von der Haar/flickr Equity and Justice Clean Energy Environmental …
… for the State of Connecticut. As of September 2016, Garcia remained undecided about a key element of that strategy – nuclear power plants. There were strong proponents and opponents of nuclear energy on the GC3 and Garcia was weighing each side’s arguments before announcing his own … nonprofits. The GC3 recommendations would have to take into account Connecticut’s changing energy profile. Between 1996 and 2015, natural gas largely replaced the dirtier fossil fuels …
… Solar Industry? 2796 6778 2798 2745 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the … surrounding ecosystems and communities. A growing body of research is exploring co-location opportunities on solar sites — from planting pollinator habitat to growing crops among the … of an ecosystem services market in Minnesota to meet the dual goals of improving the efficiency of statewide conservation spending and promoting pollinator-friendly solar …
… Before the federal government discontinued the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Qualified Energy Conservation Bond (QECB) program in 2017 as part of its tax reform package, states like Virginia leveraged this program to accomplish energyefficiency goals. When evaluating how to use Virginia’s QECB allocation, decision makers …
… This project involved the collection of two energy generation datasets: the hourly wind output profiles and the hourly electricity load … methodology 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 the context of government policies designed to promote renewable energy. Clean Energy The Impact of Government Policies on the Mix of Intermittent & …
… model, strategies were proposed based on component reliability and its contribution to the energy generation loss in kilowatt-hours given the component failure. These four maintenance … Studies: Air Pollution Control, Environmental Risk Assessment, and Introduction to Green Energy. Future Activities As a result of this project, the investigators are preparing a white paper to be presented to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, PA to gain support for …
… commitments. The circular economy represents one of the biggest environmental and economic opportunities through which companies can lower their environmental footprint and represents … packaging sector. We evaluate the four circular strategies and address the challenges and opportunities associated with each of these models. Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Circularity Equity and Justice Fiber Based Packaging: Opportunities in a Circular Economy … Fiber Based Packaging: Opportunities in a Circular …
… to assess the financial implications of their carbon emissions and encourage increased energyefficiency. To date, around 1,400 companies have reported implementing or planning carbon … internal carbon-charge programs, we provide two core contributions: a policy framework of key decisions lessons learned from an examination of case studies on Yale University, …