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Big Power: Duke Energy’s Progress
Casey Wichman is an Environmental Economics Analyst with the Environmental Finance Center. In case you haven’t heard, the merger between Duke and Progress energy was approved, making it the largest power utility in the United…
Why Energy Efficiency Matters
Michael Chasnow is a Finance Analyst with the Environmental Finance Center. At the EFC, we do a lot of work on energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) lending programs — from designing community energy finance…
PeakSet Base: A Pricing Model for Utility Revenue Stability and Customer Conservation
Mary Tiger is the Chief Operating Officer for the Environmental Finance Center and Project Manager for “Defining a Resilient Business Model for Water Utilities” Project funded bythe Water Research Foundation. Water and wastewater utilities most…
“One Oar in the Water”
Daniel Kolomeets-Darovsky is an Environmental Finance Analyst with the Environmental Finance Center. stephen schiller / Free Photos Defining a resilient business model for water utilities is no easy task in a time of unprecedented economic…
Finding the Right Grant for State and Tribal Wetland Programs
Glenn Barnes is a senior project director at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina. Glenn is the project manager of the Sustainable Finance for Wetland Programs project funded by the U.S….
American Idol for Water Utility Finance: The Results Show
Mary Tiger is the Chief Operating Officer for the Environmental Finance Center and Project Manager for “Defining a Resilient Business Model for Water Utilities” Project funded bythe Water Research Foundation. Last week at the AWWA…
Two Vantage Points on Opportunities for U.S. Water Utility Development – Part II: Glass Half Full
Christine E. Boyle, PhD is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Environmental Finance Center Signs of progress in the US public water utility sector Part II of this series describes three reasons for optimism within the…
Two Vantage Points on Opportunities for U.S. Water Utility Development – Part I: Glass Half Empty
Christine E. Boyle, PhD is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Environmental Finance Center The large amount of capital needed to fund municipal water utilities’ aging infrastructure has risen to the forefront of local and national…