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
In partnership from the Connecticut Green Bank, Yale students assessed the state of Connecticut university fleet electrification and identified promising investment themes.
We Energies, formally Wisconsin Electric Power Company, proposed its Very Large Customer (VLC) and Bespoke Resources tariffs in March 2025 after multiple large data center prospects entered its service territory. This case study delves into the reasoning for, process of, and outcomes from these tariffs.
The PSiCE fellowship matches 11 undergraduate and graduate students with non-profit, startup, and governmental organizations committed to energy equity and the deployment of clean energy. Deepa, a rising sophomore at Yale College studying Statistics and Data Science with a certificate in Energy Studies, interns at Voltus.
Clean energy transactions in the United States totaled $180 billion across 108 deals during the first quarter of 2026. That sounds like a booming market. Look closer, though, and the picture gets complicated. The clean energy market is not growing uniformly. It is splitting into two.
The era of selling "green" as a moral premium has faded. What comes next will be built by founders whose products are simply better, faster, and cheaper than the high-carbon incumbents they aim to replace.
How rural electrical cooperatives can become champions for clean energy—insights from the Yale School of the Environment’s panel, “Winning the Future of the Energy Transition in Rural America”.
On April 8, 2026, Jim Levitt (Yale College, BA1976; Yale SOM, MPPM 1980; Yale SOM Donaldson Fellow 2009; and co-founder of the International Land Conservation Network at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) presented a compelling case for environmental optimism grounded not in aspiration, but in structural trends already visible in data.
Even as renewable energy continues its rapid expansion, electricity demand in the United States is accelerating at an even faster pace, partially driven by the explosive growth of AI data centers. To achieve net zero by 2050, large technology companies are pivoting toward nuclear power, with small modular reactors (SMRs) emerging as the most prominent solution.
A guide to different electricity markets: spot, day-ahead, energy-only, capacity. Electricity markets are layered precisely because electricity is physically unlike every other commodity.
Electricity and the New Industrial Order: the age of combustion shaped the modern world. The age of The Stack — energy, electronics, and industrial depth fused together — is reshaping it.
The Strait of Hormuz crisis exposes not just the fragility of fossil fuels, but the geopolitical trap waiting inside the clean energy transition itself.
Recapping a recent panel at Yale Law School examining what present societies owe future generations and how policy views “rights to nature” and “rights of nature.”
