What happens when a clean energy developer, an electric grid operator, and a banker sit down together? It sounds like the setup for a wonky joke. But the keynote panel of the 2024 Yale Clean Energy Conference offered a hopeful answer: they can help address the climate crisis.
Sponsored by the Dean’s Office as part of the annual, international conference, the October 11 panel put experts from those three sectors in conversation to discuss the challenges ahead as the United States enters what the International Energy Agency has dubbed the “age of electricity.”
Policymakers and environmental advocates have long sought to electrify machines previously powered by oil or natural gas, including cars, heaters, and kitchen appliances, in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But in order to be a truly climate-friendly alternative, that electricity must be generated by clean sources. Moreover, the clean energy transition requires…
