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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…
Saving Energy in Philadelphia: Strategies to Spur Residential Retrofits
Michael Chasnow is a Finance Analyst with the Environmental Finance Center. Although there are dozens of city and state-led residential energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) retrofit programs across the country, little research has focused…
Game Changing in the Water/Wastewater Utility Business
Stacey Isaac Berahzer is a Senior Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, and works from a satellite office in Georgia. How can water and wastewater utilities be…
Energy Data Collection Methods: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Guest author Janelle Beverly was a graduate student intern at the Environmental Finance Center this past year. This post summarizes the capstone paper she completed in partial fulfillment of an MPA degree from the UNC…
The Increasing Need to Address Customer Affordability
Stacey Isaac Berahzer is a Senior Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, and works from a satellite office in Georgia. Water prices are rising faster than any other utility…