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,...

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...

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...

The next installment of the Blueprint for Clean Energy series will document the real energy usage in hundreds of multifamily buildings in the Northeast, real solutions to reducing their usage, and simple financial methods to make these buildings more energy efficient.

State and federal policy is critical to clean energy development. This installment of the Yale CEFF & CDFA Energy Finance Webinar Series features a discussion of policies that best drive clean energy finance. Panel experts will discuss which policies yield the greatest impact for energy markets and the prospects for these policies to become a reality.

As more firms are open to investing in clean energy, a wide range of financing programs are being designed to meet this demand and address credit challenges. This installment of the Yale Clean Energy Finance Forum & Council of Development Finance Agencies Energy Finance Webinar Series focuses on innovative state and local programs successfully catalyzing clean energy.

Access to secondary market capital can help enable dramatic scaling of the energy efficiency industry. This webinar is based on a new report from the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network about accessing secondary markets for energy efficiency. The webinar explores in more depth several secondary market transactions that have been executed in different states and market segments, as a follow-up to the first webinar, “Secondary Markets: A Sustainable Capital Source for Energy...

This Blueprint for Efficiency webinar will feature case studies of joint utility efficiency programs, including stories of first-hand experiences with the process. In addition, we will highlight some emerging technologies that can be used harness the energy embedded in water, including case studies of net-zero energy wastewater treatment plants.

Access to secondary market capital can help enable dramatic scaling of the energy efficiency industry. However, the role of these markets is largely untested and only a handful of transactions have been executed to date. Program administrators face very real, near-term decisions regarding whether and how to access secondary markets.

Dr. Katrina Jessoe will discuss how the new UC Davis Center for Water-Energy Efficiency is advancing integrated water-energy management. She will share her current work studying the effect of behavioral and incentive-based conservation programs on residential water and natural gas savings. Her research partnership with the Southern California Gas, Burbank Water and Power, and the home water report company WaterSmart will provide insights on the cost-effectiveness of achieving energy...

The webinar “Catalyzing Energy Investment with Development Finance Programs” focuses on the impact that tested development finance tools can have on clean energy investment. Speakers discuss the role of leveraged bond financing structures, non-energy tax credits and direct foreign investment can play in catalyzing energy projects.

Joe Indvik of SparkFund discusses how SparkFund is unlocking the small project energy efficiency market, relays lessons learned, and challenges aspiring innovators to be a part of spurring energy efficiency.

This webinar focuses on the current activity and design of on-bill programs as part of our series of energy efficiency financing webinars held in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the SEE Action network. The webinar provides an overview of existing on-bill programs along with insights on key program design considerations.

Momentum is growing behind the innovative clean energy finance concept of Green Banks. Green Banks provide low-cost financing for clean energy projects in partnership with private investors. They reduce the cost of capital to lower the price of clean energy and leverage public dollars with greater private investment. To build on this movement, Congressman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced the Green Bank Act of 2014 to create a Federal Green Bank.

Energy Efficiency Finance 301 - Financing Solutions for Energy Efficiency: Case Studies in Energy Efficiency Finance Program Design

This presentation provides an overview of key principles of integrative whole-systems design and operation for high-performance facilities and mechanical systems that can cost less to build and less to operate. Integrative design seeks technical, economic and organizational synergies to achieve low cost of ownership and reduced environmental impacts.

EnergySavvy's cloud-based software is a 21st-century approach to managing energy efficiency based on data transparency and control. Its utility-scale software quantifies and delivers energy savings, making efficiency more reliable, deployable and bankable.

Our second webinar in the series will look at the use of credit enhancement strategies to manage risk and spur investment in energy efficiency.

As organizations move deeper into implementing sustainability and energy efficiency programs, they tend to come to a harrowing conclusion: there's no way to fully ignore or bypass the people. Affecting human behavior is notoriously difficult, but emerging research around behavioral economics offers some key insights on why people act the way they do, and how they can be nudged in a different direction.

Ever wonder how Olympic organizers ensure teams and spectators from 89 different countries make it to their events with relative ease? The answer is actually straightforward: long ago, in an effort to streamline communication at the games, they standardized on English and French as the official language of the Olympics. So then, what is the official language of energy efficiency?

Market leading real estate companies are using meter data analytics to manage their buildings better, and the reports of savings are impressive. NRDC decided to study it – are reports of 10% to 20% savings from meter-based analytics realistic? Their case study of three specific buildings says the answer is "Yes". The report documents the savings, identifies what changes accounted for savings, and provides a roadmap for successful implementation.

This webinar will define key terms in energy efficiency finance. We will discuss the rationales behind financing approaches such as Energy Performance Contracts (EPC), Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) and On Bill Repayment (OBR). We will also highlight the strengths and weaknesses of various sources of capital and the role of credit enhancement and financial products.