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Tracking Electricity Production Patterns for Residential Solar Electric Systems in Massachusetts
(2015-10-29)
The number of residential small-scale solar electric, or photovoltaic (PV) systems installed in Massachusetts has increased over the past five years. However, expanded deployment of residential solar PV may be hindered by ...
Probability of Going Public for Cleantech Startups Based on Fundraising Milestones
(2015-11-18)
The path to the wide adoption and commercial success of cleantech technologies is hindered by large research and development costs, long testing times, and uncertainty over long-term viability. These risks have made it ...
Small Scale Innovation for Large Scale Progress: A Clean Tech Rural Development Model Using Quality of Life Indicators to Select Optimal Renewable Energy Solutions
(2016-05-22)
The energy poverty challenge sits in an estimated $6.4 trillion clean technology market opportunity in developing and emerging markets over the next decade (World Bank, 2014). As a result, private sector investments have ...
a Feasibility Study for Transitioning Louisville, Kentucky’s Transportation and Electricity Generation to Renewable Sources
(2016-05-15)
Climate change is caused mainly by humans and there is a great risk of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems” (IPCC, 2014). It has been proposed by many that America can address climate ...
Opportunities for Improved Warship Energy Efficiency: A Canadian Patrol Frigate’s Operational Energy Use Patterns
(2016-11-10)
This project explores a Canadian warship’s propulsion and electrical energy use patterns to define energy baselines and determine if the ship would be able to save energy without compromising mission capability. The study ...
An Iterative Parametric Modeling Analysis of Architectural Indicators and Associated Impacts on Energy Consumption in a Pennsylvania Single-Family Home
(2018-05-17)
Residential buildings in the U.S. consume 21% of the total primary energy, mostly generated via conventional fossil fuels, a major contributor to environmental pollution and degradation (EIA, 2017). Hence, energy conservation ...
Quantifying the Impact of Regulatory Stringency in the Hydraulic Fracturing Industry
(2018-04-01)
Hydraulic fracturing (aka “fracking”) has become an increasingly large part of the U.S. energy landscape over the past decade, providing increased domestic gas resources alongside rising concern over how the industry ...
New York City High-Rise vs. Low-Rise Residential Energy Optimization
(2017-11-11)
Residential buildings create 37% of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions, so determining the most effective way to reduce the emissions of this building type is critical to achieving the city’s 80% greenhouse gas ...
Life-cycle Impacts and Economic Costs of Small-scale Renewable Energy Technologies in Nepal
(2018-05-23)
Hundreds of thousands of small-scale renewable energy technologies (RETs), mainly micro hydropower plants (MHP), solar home systems (SHS), and household biogas plants, have been installed and are in use in Nepal since the ...