… When Walmart de México y Centroamérica decided to buy the power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’s … boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with abundant wind resources, absent a creditworthy off-taker the project would not have been able to line up … financial backing, buy and erect the turbines, andbegin generating electricity by 2010. For Walmart de México, becoming the wind farm’s off-taker accomplished a number of important …
… had to decide how it was going to respond and how much it was willing to invest in its efforts to grow in the U.S. In Europe, the supply-constrained market during 2007-10 had … developing B2C channels to tap into the growing market of local contractors and do-it-yourselfers looking to add solar panels to their roofs. Trina had already partnered with three distributors of electrical equipment in the United States to reach the residential …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power to … for the entire developing world. The road to SELCO’s success, however, has not always been smooth. Hande cofounded SELCO (with Neville Williams) in 1995 to sell and service …
… Bryan Garcia, the President and CEO of the Connecticut Green Bank, had a big decision to … on Climate Change (GC3), a group charged with creating a comprehensive climate strategy for the State of Connecticut. As of September 2016, Garcia remained undecided about a key … putting further pressure on keeping or expanding nuclear. On the other hand, there are ongoing health and safety, environment, and security concerns about nuclear power, as well as …
… of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meant that the national oil company PEMEX had to find ways to implement this policy. Nevertheless, in spite of efforts by various government agencies as well as PEMEX, by mid-2014 no ethanol had been … needs. First, it could help extend the country’s supply of crude oil. The country's demandfor gasoline was growing, but the production of crude oil from the country's …
… On February 23, 2007, your investment banking firm receives an urgent call from James D. Marston, Regional Director … of the Texas Climate Initiative. You meet with him and learn that he needs help preparing for an unusual negotiation. Marston will be flying to San Francisco for a negotiating … blessing for the deal. After talking with Marston, you agree that your report will cover three general areas: What is the economic value of EDF's blessing to the private equity …
… NY Green Bank (NYGB), New York State’s $1-billion clean-energy fund, and a young new efficiency … named Sealed signed a $5-million loan-financing agreement as a way to broaden the market for home energy-efficiency upgrades. In New York State, those upgrades face two key barriers … in their underwriting criteria. So the cost per project can be too low for significant resources to be dedicated to vetting each one. Plus, the methods of energy-efficiency upgrades …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a substantial percentage of its greenhouse-gas … both the investment cost for energy-efficiency upgrades and the subsequent cost savings. Source Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment Areas of Focus Sustainable Finance and …
… On July 12, 2017, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government bestowed the prestigious Ash award in policy innovation, the "Nobel of policy," upon the Connecticut Green Bank for its role in "sparking the green bank movement." The Green Bank used financial … In 2017, nearly 90% of the Connecticut Green Bank's operating funds came from public sources. How then could the Green Bank, whose mission rested on building trust, both insulate …
… 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 continents. But many investors believed these first years were just a warm-up for what was to come (the company’s market capitalization had doubled since its IPO in …