Clean Energy Group Publications and Reports

Clean
Energy State Program Guide - Mainstreaming Solar Electricity: Strategies
for States to Build Local Markets, prepared by Mark Sinclair, Clean
Energy Group and Steve Weisman, Peregrine Energy Group. April 2008.
The report describes the key policies and program strategies that have
emerged as effective tools for states to advance wide-spread solar
deployment. The report’s recommendations are based on the input
and lessons learned of the members of the Clean Energy States Alliance,
a coalition of state clean energy funds working together to support
renewable energy technologies.

Low-Carbon
Technologies in the Post-Bali Period: Accelerating
Their Development and Deployment,
prepared for European Climate Platform by Christian
Egenhofer, Lew Milford, Noriko Fujiwara, Thomas L. Brewer and Monica
Alessi. ECP
Report No. 4, December 2007. This report is based
on a background study and seminar on Strategic Aspects of Technology
for the UNFCCC
and Climate Change Debate: The Post-Bali Technology
Agenda, organized under the auspices of the European Climate Platform
(ECP), a joint
initiative of Climate Policy Research Programme
and Centre for European Policy Studies.
New
Performance-Based Standards for Standby Power: Reexamining Policies
to Address Changing Power Needs,
prepared for Clean Energy Group by Frank A. Felder, Ph.D., Director
of the Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey. December 2007. This paper notes
that the advances in technology, the increase and changing needs
for standby generation, and environmental concerns suggests a new
look at standby generation codes and standards. It also suggests
that policy makers should consider replacing existing standby
generation policies with performance standards that would better
suit the needs for standby generation, and potentially, encourage
new, more energy efficiency, and environmentally friendlier technologies.
Consultative
Group on Climate Innovation: A Proposed Complementary Technology
Track for the Post-2012 Period, by Lewis Milford, Clean Energy
Group. A paper presented at the Road to Copenhagen Conference
on Leadership, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Brussels,
Belgium, 23 November 2007. This paper proposes a specific structure
for a new "distributed innovation" approach to climate
technology, building and expanding on the earlier recommendations
of the UN Foundation
and the Club of Madrid. This approach is designed to scale up
existing climate technologies and to develop new breakthrough
technologies.
It could be one way that both developed and developing countries
could collaborate effectively on technology development, deployment
and finance.
Massive
Climate Technology Innovation: A New Geometry of Complementary Strategies
Post-2012, by Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group. A Statement
Paper presented at the Ministerial Meeting of the Gleneagles Dialogue
on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development, September
9-11, 2007. This paper describes a complementary "climate technology
innovation process" that could be pursued to scale up existing
low carbon technologies and create "breakthrough" disruptive
technologies in many energy sectors, including renewables and CO2
capture and storage.
A
New Geometry of Complementary Climate Technology Solutions: What the
Heiligendamm G8 Summit Could Mean for a Post-2012 Climate Framework,
a discussion paper by Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group. This report
reviews new commitments for climate
technology measures from the Heiligendamm Summit Declaration that could
structure a post-2012 framework for climate mitigation that could complement
cap and trade strategies. July 2007.
From
Here to Stabilization: A Call for Massive Climate Technology Innovation, by
Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group. This report examines the need
for low carbon technology innovation to achieve
necessary reductions of greenhouse gas emissions for climate stabilization.
September 2006.
Renewable
Hydrogen: Technology Review and Policy Recommendations for State
Level Sustainable Energy Futures by
Timothy Lipman, Jennifer L. Edwards and Cameron Brooks.
Prepared for Clean
Energy Group. This report provides a review of the current
commercial and technical status of hydrogen production
techniques, a survey
of notable projects in the U.S., and policy recommendations
for advancing the potential of hydrogen as a clean fuel
for stationary power and
transportation applications. May 2006.
Integrating
Fuel Cells and RPS Markets: Recommendations and Strategies for Advancing
Fuel Cells, Distributed Generation and RPS Markets, prepared
by Jürgen Weiss, Ph.D. and Cameron Brooks for Clean Energy
Group. This report examines opportunities for improving the incentives
for
stationary fuel cells in the context of existing RPS programs.
June 2006.
Hydrogen
Energy Stations: Poly-Production of Electricity, Hydrogen, and Thermal
Energy by Timothy Lipman and Cameron Brooks
for Clean Energy Group. This report provides a review of the current
status of "hydrogen
energy stations" for combined production of electricity, hydrogen
and thermal energy; a survey of notable energy station projects; and
policy recommendations for advancing the potential of hydrogen energy
stations as a source of clean fuel for stationary power and transportation
applications. May 2006.
Renewable
Hydrogen: Technology Review and Policy Recommendations for State Level
Sustainable Energy Futures by Timothy
Lipman, Jennifer L. Edwards and Cameron Brooks. Prepared for Clean
Energy Group. This report provides
a review of the current commercial and technical status of hydrogen
production techniques, a survey of notable projects in the U.S.,
and policy recommendations for advancing the potential of hydrogen
as a
clean fuel for stationary power and transportation applications.
May 2006.
A
Possible Turning Point for Climate Change Solutions: How Innovations
in Investment, Technology and Policy Are Needed for Emissions Stabilization. Prepared
by Clean Energy Group for the Montreal Strategic Climate Change Workshop
on Sub-National Strategies for Clean Energy Investment, Technology
Deployment and Innovation. December 2005.
Public
Finance Mechanisms to Catalyze Sustainable Energy Sector Growth, prepared
by BASE and UNEP in collaboration with Clean Energy Group, and with
financial support of the UN Foundation. This report provides policy
makers and public finance agencies with a guide that traces the investment
stages of sustainable energy technology innovation and project development
and highlights how public mechanisms can help address the financing
barriers that hinder capital formation in this sector. December 2005.

Energy
Security and Emergency Preparedness: How Clean Energy Can Deliver More
Reliable Power for Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Response Missions.
Prepared by Clean Energy Group. October 2005.

The
Potential for Transatlantic Investment in Clean Technology - An Opportunity
Assessment of the Clean Energy Sector. Prepared by Clean Energy
Group and the Carbon Trust, March 2005.
This Report:
- identifies a number of important barriers that hinder investment in clean energy markets;
- reveals considerable enthusiasm in the transatlantic investment community for promoting new financial structures and policy mechanisms; and,
- sets out next steps to gain support for the initiative through two subsequent phases of the work.

Global Clean Energy Markets: The Strategic Role of Public Investment
and Innovation, by Cameron Brooks,
Lewis Milford, Allison Schumacher, Clean Energy Group, May 2004.
“This report, written by the Clean Energy Group, looks at the energy
industry from a disruptive point of view. If the natural process of disruption
is allowed to proceed, it would bring about change that would produce
critical social, economic, and environmental benefits…I hope this
report helps you frame the key issues in a unique and powerful way.”
Clayton Christensen
Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Clean Energy Initiative: A Report on How Foundations, State Funds, and
Social Investors Could Pursue Joint Investments, prepared by
Clean Energy Group, July 2003. Lewis Milford, Philip LaRocco, and
Robert
Sanders.
This report follows an investigation initiated the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Surdna Foundation, and Oak Foundation designed to explore new models for clean energy investment among foundations, public funds and private investors. The Clean Energy Group worked together with E+Co and The Reinvestment Fund to undertake an investigation and draft a report about the opportunities presented by the initiative.
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Other Publications
CESA Year One: A Report on Clean Energy Funds in the US, August 2004.This
is the first annual report of Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA).
CESA
2005-2006: A Report on State Clean Energy Funds, Investment and Deployment
in the U.S., September 2007. Thisis the second biennial report
of the Clean Energy States Alliance.
Leading
from the States, by Cameron Brooks, Clean Energy Group. A recent article
in Environmental Finance, September 2004, about how CESA members are co-operating
to help transition to a low carbon economy by investing to expand clean
energy markets.

Distributed
Power Generation for Homeland Security: Proposal for a New Federal
and State Partnership, by Lewis Milford and Ruth O'Meara-Costello,
Clean Energy Group. Security Managers Institute News, Winter 2003.
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