Crowdfunding Investment for Renewable Energy

Renewable energy harvested from the environment is an attractive option for providing green energy to homes. Unfortunately, the intermittent nature of renewable energy results in a mismatch between when these sources generate energy and when homes ...

To analyze incentives for investing in the capacity to generate renewable electricity, we model the trade-off between renewable e.g., wind and nonrenewable e.g., natural gas technology. Renewable technology has a higher investment cost and yields only ...

Distributed generation (DG) uses many small on-site energy sources deployed at individual buildings to generate electricity. DG has the potential to make generation more efficient by reducing transmission and distribution losses, carbon emissions, and ...