Clean Across the Continent: Promoting High Wind Goals in the Heartland
The Center has worked virtually this fall with dozens of professionals earning certificates in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy. Learners in the program study the history, physics, innovation pathways and technological possibility sparking the carbon-free economy. One learning strategy involves crafting policy memos and op/ed pieces on issues where public support can unleash capital. Here, Tyler Yeargain (associate director of the Yale Center on Environmental Law and Policy when not absorbing the ins and outs of clean energy) argues that South Dakotans should seek to draw half their energy from wind inside of a decade. Yeargain's case includes government support- and his tactics illustrate the command of policy levers, technological gateways, physical potential and carbon calculus that we cultivate in all our programs. CBEY takes no partisan position on this or any other proposal.