The Yale Clean Energy Forum advances the understanding and growth of energy policy, technology, finance, and careers by publishing original educational content, promoting professional dialogue, fostering innovation, and highlighting Yale's contributions
Reid Buckley is a Co-founder of Orion Renewable Energy Group LLC, working at the county level to implement renewable energy projects across local communities. After decades in renewable energy, Reid Buckley has seen just about everything the industry has to offer, from shifting energy policies to conversations with farmers in the middle of their fields.
Ashish Kapoor, senior energy and climate advisor at the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) discusses his work on enabling distributed energy resources and agrivoltaics during a time of data center expansion and Virginia's potential energy future.
Ahead of his appearance at the Yale Clean Energy Conference, Truman H. Mak spoke with Sarah Heebe of the Yale Clean Energy Forum team about his current work in battery storage systems and how he sees the landscape changing.
On September 24, four banks agreed to lend against a 400-megawatt Scottish battery that has no single buyer for its power, and the way they got comfortable doing it says a lot about where project finance is headed.
Connecticut's most hated electric-bill charge has become a credit, and a talking point in the governor's race. But the real problem isn't on the ballot. It’s electricity prices that swing as much as the fossil fuels they're meant to replace.
Sarah Heebe is currently a junior at Yale College, pursuing a B.S. in Environmental Studies with an Energy Studies Certificate. As a founding member and Co-President of Yale's Renewable Future Alliance Club, she is currently finalizing an ongoing project concerning thermal energy networks that can be used to heat surrounding buildings.
Sandy Phan is a sophomore at Yale College prospectively majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a certificate in Energy Studies. She is a part of the Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) program, and has a passion for researching nuclear reprocessing, a way to recover radioactive waste from nuclear fuel rods.
Martin Waana-Ang is a Ghanaian J.S.D. Candidate at Yale Law School, where he previously earned the LL.M. degree. Now in his second year writing for the Forum, he focuses particularly on critical minerals governance, trade and investment regulation, and the implications of geopolitical competition for resource-rich developing countries.
Julia is first year candidate in the Master of Environmental Management program at the Yale School of the Environment. Unsurprisingly I am in the “Energy and the Environment” specialization, which offers a cool fusion of quantitative and qualitative courses looking at the many facets of the energy world. I’m hoping to get involved in some energy economics or related research once I have a semester under my belt.
I’ve recently become interested in the Industrial Ecology and Green Chemistry (IEGC)
Isabel is a first-year Masters in Environmental Management at the Yale School of the Environment. She is fascinated by built environments and the interdisciplinary nature of art with environmental activism and justice thinking: "how art can be a great communicator of environmental issues?"
Henrietta is specializing in Energy and the Environment as a first year Masters of Environmental Management student at YSE. Henrietta just moved to New Haven from San Francisco after working in climate tech at Overstory and UrbanFootprint.
Grace Brach is a first year student at the Yale School of Management (SOM). Her path from civil engineering to energy innovation began with a simple question: "how can infrastructure meet humanity’s most basic needs?"
