We've got three new explainers and lots of context for this week's event.
We've got three new explainers and lots of context for this week's event.
News focused exclusively on financing for
energy efficiency and renewable energy
When the world's lights and wheels run everywhere without compromising everyone, the world's wealth will return benefits we haven't yet calculated. 
In search of metrics for that new reality, we empowered students into leading roles for our inaugural Yale Clean Energy Conference on April 1 and 2. They've scheduled keynote addresses from senior officials working on energy justice at the federal level. They've assembled panels on institution-building and justice-building. They've worked to blend our schools' intimacy with our network's breadth in our New Haven home and, digitally, across the world.
This newsletter aims to tee you up for the Conference. Our student writers offer explainers on hydrogen, risk data and clean energy standards. These give context for topics our panelists will broach. Our news roundup captures progress and complexity. And our jobs roundup shows these topics' currency. 
We can't wait for a world that shines without singeing society's hopes. With this conference and the other programming we develop, we aren't waiting. And neither are you.  
Pre-Conference Reading: What the Terms Mean
Have Hydrogen Investors Found Decarbonization's Pot of Gold? 
Tanya Sinha
We'll examine the whole economy throughout the conference, even the parts where intermittent solar and wind power won't make a timely replacement for fossil fuels. That means we'll think about hydrogen, an element that follows myriad paths to market. This explainer marks a spot. Head here...
To Peak Your Interest, Learn How One State's Trying to Enact Just Standards
Elwin Lim 
The architecture we're constructing together, with power purchase agreements and commitments and more, relies for coherence on standards that a public agency will uphold. But which standards guide states toward the aim of achieving clean, fair and life-supporting power for everyone? This explainer takes apart a new kind of standard to reeducate us in energy economics. Scale the heights...
Being a Climate Leader Means Drawing High ESG Ratings, Right? Well, Um...
Rachel Bitutsky 
The businesses we'll get to know in the conference need oceans of capital to right the capitalist ship, and these days that means they need high ESG ratings. But each ESG rating agency uses its own recipe, making objective analysis elusive for asset managers. Our writer looks to two CBEY leaders for a guiding light. Enter the maze...

Panels: Precedents, Progress, and Perspectives
Panel One, on Local Solar Plus Storage in Energy Markets: Dealing With Disinformation's Downdraft
The first panel we'll convene examines how local solar providers can aggregate and store their power to compete in energy markets. This story from NPR mainly looks at wind power, but it clarifies how clean-energy competitors must often overcome misrepresentation and the mistrust that follows. Shine the spotlight...
Panel Two, on Power Purchase Agreements: They're Gaining Visibility Across the World
In panel two, delve into how big companies buy clean power on long-term deals that help solar and wind providers grow. These commitments, called "power purchase agreements," spread in the United States with participation from big tech firms. This March 22 piece from India's Economic Times shows how the strategy applies in that country - and how it motivates makers not just of software but of steel. Get the basics...
Panel Three, on Grid Modernization: It's DIfficult Drawing Designs to Distribute Energy Effectively
The third panel on Friday looks into the crevasses of the energy grid, taking up ways that can drive more renewables to buildings and cars. This March 14 roundup from Canary Media looks at how organizations that run the American grid are meeting a federal order to absorbing resources from the edge. Do not look away...
Panel Four, on Tech for the Future: In Search of Chemistry Flows That Pair Well With Cash Flows
If we're going to a mostly-renewable power system, we're going to need massive increases in technology that can store and distribute that power. This Utility Dive story from March 3 checks in on the Department of Energy's programs to support experiments in (still expensive) new materials. Let it run...
Day Two's Cross-Cutting Discussions: The Delicate Decisions Driving Transportation Equity Policy
In the conference's second day, an all-virtual format invites forays across our future. One panel will center on transportation, an already-complex shift made more so by Russia's war on Ukraine. This March 25 Bloomberg story shows some of the turmoil. It distills criticism by climate activists over efforts by California's governor to mitigate high gasoline prices. Exchange insurance information...

Webinars and Events
Yale Clean Energy Conference
Yale Center for Business and the Environment
April 1 and 2, 2022
Renewable Energy and Indigenous Communities
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and Center for Latin and Latinx Studies at U Penn
April 7, 2022 at 4 pm EDT
NREL Industry Growth Forum
April 13-14, 2022
In-person in Denver, CO 
The Cutting Edge of Climate Tech
RMI and Third Derivative
April 20, 2022 at 9 am EDT 

Jobs 
Research Associate
Clean Energy States Alliance
Montpelier, VT or remote
Residential Solar PV Asset Manager
CT Green Bank
Hartford, CT
Manager, Project Finance
Breakthrough Energy
New York, NY
Director of Energy Storage Development, East
Endurant Energy
New York, NY
Climate Risk Data Manager
Freddie Mac
McLean, VA or remote
Director, Global Sustainability - Restaurants & Customer Experience
McDonald's Corporation
Chicago, IL 
Director, Sustainability
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, WA
Program Officer, Climate Finance P3
World Food Program
Rome, Italy
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