Blueprint for Clean Energy Yale Center for Business and the Environment

This webinar will provide an overview of the Green Bank Network, its purpose, function and what it will provide members and the financial and clean energy community at large. The webinar will feature speakers from three founding member banks that will showcase real-world and upcoming market deals.

Paul Gardner of DNV GL summarizes recent work by the World Energy Council on the costs and value of grid-connected energy storage, with particular reference to use with solar and wind. Mike Hopkins, CEO of Ice Energy, shares one current market solution to energy storage deployment.

Oyvind Leistad, Program Director at Enova SF, discusses: Norway's energy policy background and current goals; Enova's mission and strategic approach; Case studies and lessons-learned.

This webinar discusses a report from the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network, "Making It Count: Understanding the Value of Energy Efficiency Financing Programs Funded by Utility Customers." Chuck Goldman of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory moderates a panel that includes: Bryan Garcia, President & CEO, Connecticut Green Bank; Deana Carrillo, Executive Director, California Alternative Energy & Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA); Andrew Brydges, Director, Institutional Programs, Connecticut Green Bank.

Webinar on a recent report from the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network. Topics include Regulatory context for financing programs, Adapting traditional energy efficiency regulatory planning, evaluation, and performance tools, Approaches to estimating the potential of energy efficiency financing strategies, Understanding cost-effectiveness in the context of energy efficiency financing, Tools and concepts for evaluating the impact of energy efficiency financing programs from multiple perspectives

The urgency of addressing climate change and the evolving electric grid require a "next level of energy efficiency" to mobilize energy savings that go beyond historical practice and integrate with a grid characterized by high levels of intermittent resources. This webinar will describe Stanford University's research project on this next generation of efficiency. It will outline five specific challenges ahead that must be overcome - increasing the magnitude of savings; diversifying energy efficiency resources; measuring and ensuring the persistence of energy efficiency savings; integrating energy efficiency savings with a carbon reduction framework; and understanding and valuing energy efficiency as part of an evolving grid. Ms. Grueneich will then discuss her research to address these challenges by harnessing new tools and opportunities, an updated policy framework, and market forces.