Skip to main content

Clean Energy Finance Forum

produced by
Yale Center for Business and the Environment homepage
  • Home
      • Onshore wind
      • Solar
      • Nuclear/SMR
      • Ocean/Ocean thermal/tidal/wave
      • Offshore wind
      • Hydrogen
      • Hydro
      • Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
      • Hybrid projects
      • Heat pumps
      • Community solar
      • Battery and other storage
      • Transmission
      • Distributed Energy Resources
      • Energy Efficiency
      • EV charging
      • Grid modernization
      • Micro/mini grids
      • Blended instruments
      • Bonds
      • Credit rating
      • Mergers & Aquisitions
      • PACE
      • Private equity
      • Project Finance
      • Public equity
      • Public finance
      • Tax equity
      • VC
      • Deregulation
      • Carbon pricing
      • Cooperatives
      • Disclosures/ESG/executive pay
      • Energy Justice
      • Green Banking
      • Market incentives
      • On-Bill Repayment
      • Procurement
      • Subsidies
      • Utility business models
      • Wholesale market rules
      • Data
      • Fossil retirements
      • Sales and marketing
      • Commercial
      • Corporate
      • Industrial
      • MUSH
      • National/state-owned
      • Residential
      • Africa
      • Asia
      • Australia
      • North America
      • United States
      • Latin America
      • Europe
    • All Topics
    • All States
    • Alabama
    • Alaska
    • Arizona
    • Arkansas
    • California
    • Colorado
    • Connecticut
    • Delaware
    • District of Columbia
    • Florida
    • Georgia
    • Hawaii
    • Idaho
    • Illinois
    • Indiana
    • Iowa
    • Kansas
    • Kentucky
    • Louisiana
    • Maine
    • Maryland
    • Massachusetts
    • Michigan
    • Minnesota
    • Mississippi
    • Missouri
    • Montana
    • Nebraska
    • Nevada
    • New Hampshire
    • New Jersey
    • New Mexico
    • New York
    • North Carolina
    • North Dakota
    • Ohio
    • Oklahoma
    • Oregon
    • Pennsylvania
    • Puerto Rico
    • Rhode Island
    • South Carolina
    • South Dakota
    • Tennessee
    • Texas
    • Utah
    • Vermont
    • Virginia
    • Washington
    • West Virginia
    • Wisconsin
    • Wyoming
    • Series: Explaining the Energy Evolution
    • SERIES: Renewable Energy and Tax Equity, Explained
    • Series: Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Policy Memos
    • Series: CBEYond the Moment - Climate-Smart Investment for the Challenges Ahead
    • Series: Building Blocks of Community Microgrids
    • Series: Electricity Evolution
    • Series: Pollinator-Friendly Solar
    • Series: Searching for a New Deal on Climate?
  • About
  • Glossary
  • Newsletter Archive
  • Submit a Story Idea
  • Contact

Apologies for issues with search

We are having issues with the search index. We have connected to a backup source, so search may be slow or unavailable for a while as we fix it.


Photovoltaics

Loan-Guarantee Program Fuels Innovative Energy Technology

Nikki Springer
June 12, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Project Finance
  • Heat pumps
  • Distributed Energy Resources
  • Utility business models
A secure and responsible energy future relies on innovation. Technological innovation is needed to help increase energy efficiency and advance the energy economy. “De-risking” new energy technologies is a critical step in bringing innovation to market. And this is a step directly addressed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative...
Grand finale with fireworks above a circus tent

The Grand Finale: Energy-Grid Barriers and Solutions

Sara Harari, Ben Bovarnick
May 29, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Battery and other storage
  • Project Finance
  • Data
  • Commercial
  • EV charging
  • Heat pumps
  • Community solar
  • Distributed Energy Resources
  • Utility business models
  • Industrial
On social media and at industry conventions, it is easy to find high-profile discussions on the technological revolution of electric grids. Experts on energy storage, distributed generation, and wireless options describe how emerging technologies are poised to transform the electricity sector. The hype is real. Energy companies are developing technologies...
Solar Panels close up

Battery Storage Holds Promise for US Commercial Market

Lucy Kessler
October 23, 2017
  • Topics:
  • Battery and other storage
  • Project Finance
  • Commercial
  • Data
  • Heat pumps
  • Distributed Energy Resources
  • Utility business models
  • Industrial
A study published on Aug. 24 by National Renewable Energy Laboratory in partnership with Clean Energy Group found that approximately 25 percent of all commercial customers in the United States could cost-effectively reduce their electric utility bills through onsite battery storage.
Utility circus graphic

Electricity Evolution: Meet the Ringmasters

Sara Harari, Ben Bovarnick
September 20, 2017
  • Topics:
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Battery and other storage
  • Project Finance
  • Commercial
  • EV charging
  • Heat pumps
  • Distributed Energy Resources
  • Utility business models
  • Industrial
When Tesla unveiled the utility-scale Powerpack battery in 2015, analysts and observers excitedly proclaimed the product’s low price point would revolutionize electric grid operations and business models as it set new cost benchmarks for energy storage. But despite the hype, the reception from utilities was tepid at best. This experience...

Use the filters below to narrow the search results

Content Type
  • Article
Topics
  • (-) heat pumps
  • battery and other storage
  • bonds
  • commercial
  • community solar
  • corporate
  • credit rating
  • data
  • deregulation
  • distributed energy resources
  • energy efficiency
  • energy justice
  • ev charging
  • finance
  • fossil fuels
  • fossil retirements
  • green banking
  • grid modernization
  • hybrid projects
  • hydrogen
  • industrial
  • international markets
  • market incentives
  • metrics
  • micro/mini grids
  • mush
  • nuclear/smr
  • ocean/ocean thermal/tidal/wave
  • offshore wind
  • on-bill repayment
  • onshore wind
  • pace
  • procurement
  • project finance
  • public equity
  • public finance
  • regional
  • residential
  • resource
  • sectors
  • solar
  • strategy/policy
  • tax equity
  • transmission
  • united states
  • utility business models
  • wholesale market rules
States
  • (-) District of Columbia
  • (-) Nevada
  • (-) New Jersey
  • (-) Texas
  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • New Hampshire
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming

Subscribe to Our Biweekly News Update

  • About
  • Geting Started
  • States
  • Search
  • Contact Us
  • Submit a Story Idea
produced by
Yale Center for Business and the Environment homepage