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Conservation Policy and Regulation Private Finance Renewable Energy Solar PV Sustainable Cities Transportation Wind Electricity Market Reform No results Publications Electricity market reform - Karnataka case study Udetanshu, Himanshu Baghel and David Nelson December 29, 2020 Electricity market reform – Tamil Nadu case study Udetanshu, Himanshu Baghel and David Nelson December 29, 2020 Potential Implementation Risks in the Pilot Energy Efficiency Auction in Roraima Amanda Schutze, Rhayana Holz and Juliano Assunção August 26, 2020 Developing a roadmap to a flexible, low‐carbon Indian electricity system Udetanshu, Saarthak Khurana and David Nelson August 25, 2020 Improving Efficiency for Air Conditioners: The Role of the Manaus Free Trade Zone Amanda Schutze, Rhayana Holz and Juliano Assunção June 22, 2020 Enhancing Decentralized Renewable Energy Investment in Indonesia Muhammad Ery Wijaya, Alke Rabinsa Haesra and Brurce Muhammad Mecca May 14, 2020 Developing a roadmap to a flexible, low-carbon Indian electricity system Udetanshu, Saarthak Khurana and David Nelson February 13, 2019 Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2018 Federico Mazza, Chavi Meattle, Saurabh Trivedi, Randy Rakhmadi, Alke Rabinsa Haesra and Caroline Dreyer November 12, 2018 Green Aggregation Tech Enterprise (GATE) Joseph Mabe and Xueying Wang September 28, 2018 Deep decarbonization by 2050: Rethinking the role of climate finance Jessica Brown and Ilmi Granoff July 18, 2018 Markets for low carbon, low cost electricity systems (working paper) David Nelson October 5, 2017 Financing clean power: a risk-based approach to choosing ownership models and policy & finance instruments Will Steggals, David Nelson and Gaia Stigliani September 4, 2017 Overcoming barriers to institutional investments in renewables Matthew Huxham, Uday Varadarajan, Brian O'Connell and David Nelson August 8, 2017 Clean Energy Investment Trust: financial innovation for pension funds & insurers Uday Varadarajan, Matthew Huxham, Brian O'Connell, David Nelson and David Posner August 8, 2017 Flexibility: the path to low-carbon, low-cost electricity grids David Nelson, Andrew Goggins and David Posner April 25, 2017 Decarbonization of Indian Railways: Assessing Balancing Costs and Policy Risks Charith Konda, Kuldeep Sharma and Gireesh Shrimali April 5, 2017 European Renewable Energy Policy and Investment David Nelson, Brian O'Connell, Luca De Lorenzo and Matthew Huxham December 6, 2016 Decarbonization of Indian Railways Charith Konda, Saurabh Trivedi and Gireesh Shrimali July 31, 2016 Beyond YieldCos Uday Varadarajan, David Nelson, Andrew Goggins and Morgan Hervé-Mignucci June 27, 2016 Driving Foreign Investment to Renewable Energy in India: A Payment Security Mechanism to Address Off-Taker Risk Arsalan Ali Farooquee and Gireesh Shrimali April 18, 2016 Regulierungen und Investitionen für die Energiewende David Nelson, Matthew Huxham, Stefan Muench and Brian O'Connell April 14, 2016 Policy and investment in German renewable energy David Nelson, Matthew Huxham, Stefan Muench and Brian O'Connell April 14, 2016 Slowing the Growth of Coal Power in China: the Role of Finance in State-Owned Enterprises Morgan Hervé-Mignucci, Xueying Wang, David Nelson and Uday Varadarajan December 15, 2015 Slowing the Growth of Coal Power Outside China: The Role of Chinese Finance Morgan Hervé-Mignucci and Xueying Wang November 25, 2015 Using Private Finance to Accelerate Geothermal Deployment: Sarulla Geothermal Power Plant, Indonesia Randy Rakhmadi and Guntur Sutiyono June 16, 2015 Using Public Finance to Attract Private Investment in Geothermal: Olkaria III Case Study, Kenya Valerio Micale, Chiara Trabacchi and Leonardo Boni June 2, 2015 Reaching India's Renewable Energy Targets: Effective Project Allocation Mechanisms Gireesh Shrimali, Charith Konda, Arsalan Ali Farooquee and David Nelson May 13, 2015 Reaching India's Renewable Energy Targets Cost-Effectively Gireesh Shrimali, Sandhya Srinivasan, Shobhit Goel, Saurabh Trivedi and David Nelson April 14, 2015 Moving to a Low-Carbon Economy David Nelson, Morgan Hervé-Mignucci, Andrew Goggins, Sarah Jo Szambelan and Julia Zuckerman October 8, 2014 Getting the most from your green: A case study for using public money effectively for large-scale renewable energy in California Jeff Deason, Uday Varadarajan and Patricia Levi July 1, 2014 Roadmap to a Low Carbon Electricity System in the U.S. and Europe David Nelson June 19, 2014 Opportunities for a Green Bank in California Jeff Deason, Karen Laughlin, Patricia Levi, Sarah Jo Szambelan and Uday Varadarajan January 15, 2014 Raising the Stakes for Energy Efficiency: California’s Risk/Reward Incentive Mechanism Sangeetha Chandrashekeran, Julia Zuckerman and Jeff Deason January 14, 2014 German Landscape of Climate Finance Ingmar Juergens, Hermann Amecke, Rodney Boyd, Barbara Buchner, Aleksandra Novikova, Anja Rosenberg, Kateryna Stelmakh and Alexander Vasa November 30, 2012 European Electricity Infrastructure: Planning, Regulation, and Financing Karsten Neuhoff, Rodney Boyd and Jean-Michel Glachant January 24, 2012 The Impacts of Policy on the Financing of Renewable Projects: A Case Study Analysis Uday Varadarajan, David Nelson and Morgan Hervé-Mignucci October 1, 2011 Smart Power Market Project CPI Staff September 1, 2011 More Publications + Blog The Biden Administration’s potential impact on climate finance Baysa Naran, Cooper Wetherbee, Matthew Solomon and Rob Macquarie January 5, 2021 Rethinking the future of rural energy in Indonesia amid COVID-19 Muhammad Ery Wijaya and Brurce Muhammad Mecca July 28, 2020 India’s lightbulb moment: Not using this crisis for meaningful energy sector reform would be a waste Mahua Acharya, Himraj Dang and Vibhav Nuwal May 12, 2020 David Nelson on market design at IRENA Innovation Week 2018 David Nelson July 15, 2019 Are we getting climate finance all wrong? Jessica Brown July 22, 2018 Mainstreaming energy efficiency in International Finance Institutions could lower cost of meeting green growth goals Karoline Hallmeyer July 7, 2017 Flexibility — the workhorse of the global energy transition April 27, 2017 EU winter package brings renewables in from the cold Will Steggals December 1, 2016 A call for innovative green finance ideas to help India meet its climate goals Gireesh Shrimali November 24, 2016 Four ways to jumpstart rooftop solar power in India Gireesh Shrimali September 15, 2016 Two policy improvements to drive more renewable energy deployment through mini-grids in Uttar Pradesh, India Gireesh Shrimali and Stephen Comello April 26, 2016 EU Curtailment Rules Could Increase German Wind Costs by 17% by 2020 Brian O'Connell April 14, 2016 Instruments of Change: Raising Investments for India's Climate Commitments Gireesh Shrimali December 18, 2015 Global Renewable Independent Power Supplier (GRIPS) Rodney Boyd and Federico Mazza September 25, 2015 Charting a low-carbon course to economic growth Maggie Young August 13, 2015 Könnten neue Investitionsstrukturen im deutschen Markt für erneuerbare Energien die Finanzierungskosten senken? Brian O'Connell June 19, 2015 Could New Investment Structures in the German Renewable Energy Market Make the Market More Cost-Competitive? Brian O'Connell June 2, 2015 India Needs to Fix Finances to Make Renewable Energy Dreams a Reality Gireesh Shrimali February 16, 2015 Video: New business models for a low-carbon electricity system in the U.S. and Europe can save billions CPI Staff November 10, 2014 With new market structures and business models, consumers can help states reduce carbon emissions Patricia Levi July 8, 2014 The Clean Power Plan means changes for coal, but not the ones you might expect Karen Laughlin June 18, 2014 California’s Climate Credit is Worth Watching Patricia Levi April 17, 2014 Will California’s AB327 help or hinder renewable energy? The devil is in the details Patricia Levi November 18, 2013 What’s working and what’s not in state renewable portfolio standards July 11, 2013 In India, Renewable Energy Certificates are missing the target Gireesh Shrimali February 11, 2013 Renewable energy in California: What has policy brought us? Andrew Hobbs September 21, 2012 More Blog + CPI in the News Brasil começa a aproveitar seu potencial de energia solar Exame March 16, 2018 Fewer PV systems in Brazil’s sunnier zones, researchers find Decentralized Energy October 12, 2017 Geração solar ficará mais competitiva com mudanças no marco regulatório Valor Econômico October 10, 2017 A mix of wind and solar can keep balancing costs low for the Indian Railways EAI July 4, 2017 Could restoring Latin America's cloud forests boost hydropower? Reuters February 10, 2017 When Piyush meets Prabhu: Freeing Indian Railways from SEBs critical The Financial Express July 25, 2016 Railways aims to significantly reduce carbon footprints The Times of India July 22, 2016 EU curtailment rules could increase onshore wind costs by 17% by 2020 EurActiv April 27, 2016 Will Asia disrupt energy financing? CNBC July 19, 2015 Green Power Gets a Big Push Mint May 25, 2015 More CPI in the News + Press Releases Subsidies on electricity tariff are an obstacle for developing Brazil’s market for distributed solar generation October 10, 2017 Subsídios na tarifa de energia elétrica dificultam expansão do mercado de energia solar no Brasil October 10, 2017 Pension funds and insurers could accelerate energy transition by lowering cost of clean electricity 17% August 8, 2017 More than double the investment needed is available for German renewable energy transition if policy is right April 14, 2016 Neue Studie zeigt enormes Investitionspotenzial für den Ausbau Erneuerbarer Energien April 14, 2016 Auctions can be an effective mechanism to achieve India’s renewable energy targets May 13, 2015 More Press Releases + Events Bus Karo 2018 India Habitat Centre, New Delhi April 5 to 6, 2018 5th Economics of Low-Carbon Markets São Paulo December 18 to 19, 2017 Juliano Assunção is invited to a workshop of the Advisory Finance Group Washington October 12, 2017 Webinar: Driving geothermal deployment in developing countries September 29, 2015 Learning Lab on New Utility Business Models and Electricity Market Structures of the Future Boston July 29, 2015 New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Large Scale Renewables Technical Conference Albany, New York July 8, 2015 More Events +
