… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might expect, he is passionate about coffee – itsscience, its … health benefits, its taste, its beauty. Illy also has a dream that someday soon the coffee market might be transformed into something approaching the market for wine. Where …
… Renewable Thermal Technologies (RTT), especially heat pumps paired with solar, have the potential to dramatically decrease energy … Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI) analyzed the residential energy consumption and carbon emission by end-use and fuel type. From there, we investigated how much air-source …
… The objective of this project was to use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to estimate … professionals. The results indicate that residents attribute monetary value to nonmarket forest goods and services. The present value WTP for drinking water from protected …
… Suzlon, an India-based wind energy company, had made quite a splash in its first three-and-a-half years on the international stage. By the end of 2007, the company was the market leader in Asia and had completed projects in fourteen countries across five … believed these first years were just a warm-up for what was to come (the company’smarket capitalization had doubled since its IPO in 2005). Global demand for wind energy …
… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solar market, it hassupported the design and adoption of legislation that expanded the … benefits to Connecticut. Decision makerssaw the state’s approach needed to be retooled to incentivize in-state market development. Solar-market demand was accelerating …
… In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling vehicles in the U.S., would use aluminum1 rather … the truck bed and cab. Starting with the 2015 model year, the F-150 would be the first mass-market vehicle to be built with major body construction from aluminum. Alcoa spent $300 … makers were working on lighter alloys to compete with aluminum. Meanwhile, manufacturers of carbon-fiber based composites were touting their material as even lighter than aluminum and …
… Throughout the world, Cummins Inc. meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced diesel and natural gas … Rather than spend research dollars, many other manufacturers had bowed out of the diesel market, leaving Cummins with a major market opportunity. Given its heavy R&D expense, …
… This project involved the collection of two energy generation datasets: the hourly wind … technologies. Overall, these datasets and scenarios were used to develop a computer simulation model of electricity investment, for which the methodology can be found on Dr. … and results of this research in the “Renewable Technologies” component of the Energy MarketStrategy course taught at the Yale School of Management. The topics are discussed in …
… The objective of this project was to develop a new economic formula for maximizing present value of net benefits … given the component failure. These four maintenance strategies include: i) time-based preventative maintenance using visual inspection; ii) scheduled condition-based maintenance … a wind turbine life cycle impact analysis and to quantify the environmental impacts (e.g., carbon footprint, global warning potential, ozone depletion potential, etc.). Related …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who … center also became the first facility in Southeast Asia to obtain ISO 20121 Sustainable Events Management System certification. Beyond the physical plant, MBS looked to create … What projectsshould MBS prioritize and how should they make decisions? How should MBSmarket its green event packages to consumers, and how should sustainable events be priced? …