Program Projects
- October 11, 2011 |
- Demonstration Finance |
- Author: Eliot Jamison
- Insuring Innovation: Reducing the Cost of Performance Risk for Projects Employing Emerging Technology
- The goal of this paper is to understand how efficacy insurance could be used to reduce the cost and increase the availability of financing for projects using emerging clean energy technologies. These are technologies that have succeeded in lab and pilot testing but have not yet been used—or used only ... more ›
- August 3, 2011 |
- Demonstration Finance |
- Author: Peter Liu
- | Status: Under Development
- New Financial Strategies for Renewable Energy Infrastructure
- This project aims to identify market and policy solutions that will dramatically increase the flow of private capital into renewable energy infrastructure. Simultaneously, the project aims to optimize and sustain over the long term the appropriate public finance mechanisms to support renewable energy infrastructure, including both taxpayer and ratepayer funds. ... more ›
- August 2, 2011 |
- Energy Efficiency |
- Author: Lori Bamberger
- | Status: Under Development
- Driving Demand and Investment to Transform the Single-Family Energy Efficiency Marketplace
- This project will explore policy approaches to driving investment in energy upgrades for existing residential buildings. Our emphasis will be on finding solutions to concerns that have been raised by real estate market stakeholders. We will develop a structured stakeholder process that will draw out these concerns in great specificity ... more ›
- June 1, 2010 |
- Demonstration Finance |
- Author: Eliot Jamison
- From Innovation to Infrastructure: Funding First Commercial Clean Energy Projects
- Many emerging clean energy companies risk falling into the chasm between traditional venture capital and commercial debt project financing. Equity investment combined with government grants and other nondilutive funding sources can fund a clean energy technology company to the point of initial pilot projects and reference demonstrations at a small ... more ›
- February 1, 2010 |
- Energy Efficiency |
- Author: Bob Hinkle
- Energy Efficiency Paying the Way: New Financing Strategies Remove First-Cost Hurdles
- This paper—a follow-on to the March 2009 project—focuses on a subset of financing options that can foster the accelerated implementation of energy efficiency measures through the aggregation of individual projects, technologies, service offerings and investments into a larger and more cohesive combination of business opportunities. It describes the implementation and ... more ›
- March 1, 2009 |
- Energy Efficiency |
- Author: Bob Hinkle and Steven Schiller
- New Business Models for Energy Efficiency
- Cost-effective energy conservation remains a priority in California and beyond. However, the low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency appears to be harder to pluck than originally thought. Regulations and business relationships have worked—but not to the extent they could. Why not? What new business models will need to be in place ... more ›