… This report seeks to address the question of how an organization should design and implement an internal carbon charge. Internal carbon pricing is a powerful tool the private sector can employ to … considered as a single instrument, could prove cost-effective for internalizing the two market failures associated with climate change: accounting for both the carbon emissions and …
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable … energy deployment. A truly clean electricity grid, however, will need to rely on zero-carbon energy throughout the day and year, and everywhere electricity is used. RPSs have been 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 …
… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate and create the institutions required to sustain a new market. What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular is that, acrosssettings, the issues that preventmarket emergence are relatively simple and well understood; the stakeholder groups are …
… Should policymakers incentivize electric vehicle (EV) purchases first or invest in charging stations first? … thisso-called chicken-and-egg dilemma and provides recommendations for growing the EV market and increasing investment in EV charging stations. We compare EV markets acrossstates with a focus on New York, which falls in the middle of the 50 states …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity … to adopt technology, and whether the technology is correctly used. Social science and marketing literature on diffusion of technologies hasstressed the importance of social …
… Yale Center for Business and the Environment partnered with the Connecticut Green Bank, Eversource, United … assess a realistic contribution from RTTs in achieving Connecticut’s transition to a lesscarbon-intensive economy, and to establish the knowledge necessary for effective policies and strategies to advance RTTs in Connecticut. In addition to thismarket potential study, the project included a field study on RTT market barriers and …
… Solar photovoltaic panels are an increasingly competitive player in the energy market as the technology improves and … (SEEDS) … Solar photovoltaic panels are an increasingly competitive player in the energy market as the technology improves and the prices drop. The challenge of widespread diffusion …
… 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 …
… 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 …