Clean energy may be one of the most important investment frontiers of our generation. At the Investing in Clean Energy Innovation Keynote, three investors from across the capital spectrum gave a behind-the-scenes look at how climate-tech deals actually get done.
As the energy transition accelerates, the challenge will be harnessing AI's capabilities while simultaneously decarbonizing the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence itself.
With a focus on the future of energy, this year’s opening panel at the Yale Clean Energy Conference began with a discussion of First-of-a-kind (FOAK) technologies. At the center of these conversations were enhanced geothermal and critical material dependence.
Over a fast-paced hour, experts from Voltus, Connecticut Innovations, Avangrid, the Connecticut Green Bank, and RWE presented a problem their companies are solving for to achieve a clean energy future – and then did something few events do, they sought audience feedback.
The Yale Clean Energy Conference, by design, sits at the junction of academia, policy, and practice. That positionality matters. The themes that surfaced this year point to several directions in which scholarship and policy engagement could be particularly valuable.
Steph Speirs is a clean energy entrepreneur, climate educator, Fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, and lecturer at the Yale School of Management. Speirs spoke on the Yale Clean Energy Conference keynote panel on Investing in Clean Energy Innovation.
Amy Duffuor is a General Partner at Azolla Ventures, where she leads investments in early stage climate technologies with the promise of massive impacts. Duffuor spoke on the Yale Clean Energy Conference keynote panel on Investing in Clean Energy Innovation.
This moment, perhaps, captures more than any policy paper or communiqué, the uneasy soul of thirty years of the UN climate process, an enterprise forever caught between good intentions and quiet self-sabotage.
This research proposes modifying Connecticut's Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program to incentivize the use of low Global Warming Potential (GWP) refrigerants and upgrading Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in grocery stores across the state.
The Yale Clean Energy Forum had the opportunity to speak with Ben Soltoff, SOM/YSE '19, Ecosystem Builder and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. He has spent his career at the intersection of climate, innovation, and entrepreneurship, building ecosystems, mentoring startups, and advancing climate tech solutions from classrooms to boardrooms. Ben will launching his book on "Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures" at the upcoming Yale Clean Energy Conference!
