CBEYond the Moment: Creating Conditions for Clean Choices Among Texas' Low-Income Ratepayers

Published on July 7, 2020

In electricity as in epidemics, "freedom to choose" often leaves low-income people in unhealthy settings. Houston is a competitive electricity market, like many across Texas. Yet roughly 87% of consumers stay with providers that routinely charge lower-income families an oversize share of their income for power. What's stuck?

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Turning Up Clean Power in Nigeria Runs Through Two Paths (First of Two Parts)

July 7, 2020
Bringing about clean electricity in sub-Saharan Africa means creating credit where historically lenders have held back. Two new programs, a loan and a tender, have drawn international solar developers and raised prospects for low-pollution, high-efficiency in rural Nigeria. Read more

From Overload to Optimism, Yale's Certificate Holders Emerge Fired Up to Lead

July 21, 2020
CBEY introduced a certificate program in 2019 that teaches professionals the policy, science, finance tools and innovation paths that define the path to a carbon-free future. As the second year of the certificate revs up next month, certificate holders reflect on how the program taught them what to ask, what to measure, what to consider and how to build support networks for the invaluable work ahe