So Cool It's Hot: Learn About Renewable Thermal Innovators in April

Alec Appelbaum
As most of us grow more intimate with the walls of our homes, the Renewable Thermal Alliance (RTA) offers views on updates to a clean-energy source six feet from where most of us sit. A public-private partnership initiated by New York State Energy Research Development Authority (NYSERDA), the Connecticut Green Bank, and Yale University, the RTA serves more than 300 individual stakeholders throughout the United States. The Alliance will soon announce its 2019 Innovation Grant recipients. Each one earned $15,000 to work on ways to make heat pumps and other renewable sources of heat more popular. Two webinars in April...
Joseph FIordaliso, looking to the ocean and the roads to power the Garden State

CBEYond the Moment: Joseph Fiordaliso on New Jersey's Energy Master Plan

Alec Appelbaum
What's on the horizon for New Jersey after the Covid-19 crisis? When we spoke with Joseph Fiordaliso, the president of the state's Board of Public Utilities, the vision includes electric cars and buses, wind turbines in the ocean, and busy factories making wind-energy equipment. A Newark native with a crackly voice, Fiordaliso has regulated utilities in three Garden State administrations.

A new material may spark a cheaper solar process

Source: IEEE Spectrum
Researchers in Australia feel optimistic about a more energy-efficient, lighter and thus more affordable way for solar panels to heat up with minimal heat loss.
Commentary

Timing is Everything on the Greenness in the Stimulus

Source: Bloomberg Green
The question is not whether the stimulus (or bailout) can anchor sustainable economies. It's when such anchoring will emerge in evolving policy over the next several months.
Commentary

Covid-19: The Low-Carbon Crisis

Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance
One of the space's sharpest clean energy analysts sees some glimmers of hope amid a steady storm of challenges as the world survives and eventually moves forward from the current catastrophe.
Ken Gillingham

Kenneth Gillingham, Associate Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

CBEYond the Moment: Ken Gillingham

Alec Appelbaum
How can we shine a light on the smart choices for the long term in this confusing moment? Among other things, we can strike up conversation within our community. While most of us work from home and hang back from the ways we'd normally convene, we'll be sharing more insights from across the CBEY network. Here, economist Ken Gillingham lays out what the oil shock might mean for solar markets' progress- and how that progress can persevere.
A kook at trees that green bonds can support

Look for the Green Bond Label? The State of Green Bond Certification

Shitiz Chaudhary
Given the short history and dynamic state of the green bond market, wide variation exists in external review processes — based on regions, frameworks and evaluation parameters. Green bonds can fund energy, transportation, buildings or natural capital such as conservation. Work so far on certification shows how investors can keep building confidence and volume in this form of financing.
Tony DePrima's determined to lift fossil-free power standards in the First State.

Delaware energy leader Tony DePrima

As Solar and Efficiency Hold Steady, Delaware Aims to Up Renewables

Chris Lewis
Delaware consumes 100 times more energy than it produces, according to the Energy Information Administration, and gets 87% of its electricity from natural gas. The state’s renewables portfolio consists primarily of solar and biomass; a 120-megawatt offshore wind facility is expected to be online in 2022. CEFF spoke to Tony DePrima, executive director of the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (DSEU), about the state’s clean energy landscape.