Results for research on: Energy
Kimberly Ludas
MBA/MS, Class of 2021 Kim is originally from Los Angeles, CA and worked in celebrity and influencer brand partnerships and a non-profit hospital foundation before coming to the University of Michigan. She is interested in energy and sustainability finance, and helping...
How is your business making an impact? Share your ideas!
Is your business doing something really great on the journey to sustainability? Or maybe you have an idea you'd like to try but are not sure how? Share here, in this open forum, ways you see to accelerate the pace at which we're having an impact. We can learn from...
Jennifer Layke
Jennifer Layke is global director of WRI’s Energy Program. Layke oversee initiatives and projects that aim to expand access to clean and affordable energy that will reduce climate risks and strengthen communities worldwide. Layke leads a global team of experts in...
Bianca Dragone
MBA/MS, Class of 2021 Bianca is passionate about using business to drive positive social and environmental change. At the University of Michigan she is studying the intersection of food, water, and energy and how these systems will be impacted by climate change. Prior...
Nick Curran
MBA/MS, Class of 2021 Nick is a dual-degree student studying to get his MBA from the Ross School of Business and MS from the School for Environment and Sustainability. He is interested in renewable energy finance as well as the development and commercialization of new...
Abraham Baca
MBA/MS, Class of 2021 Before Michigan, I spent five years in Kansas City working as a design engineer for electric power line projects. This experience sparked my interest in renewable energy, and I recognized that I wanted to transition to a strategy or development...
Appeal of residential solar photovoltaics – Does framing matter?
If residential solar photovoltaics (PV) were adopted more widely in the United States, they could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But consumers balk at high up-front costs, even if energy savings would later offset those costs. A group of researchers...
Creative financing for developing microgrids in Puerto Rico
In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the fall of 2017, more than 3 million Americans were left without power across Puerto Rico. It took nearly 11 months for the local utility to restore power in some cases. During the hurricanes’ immediate aftermath, numerous...
UNLEASH Part 2: The solutions we devised
In our blog last month, we wrote about UNLEASH, the weeklong global innovation lab we attended in Singapore. We spent a week with 1,000 fellow young professionals and students from 106 countries developing innovative ideas for tackling the United Nations Sustainable...