FREE

  • About Us
    • Mission & Purpose
    • Organizational Structure
    • FREE Team
      • Board of Directors
      • Financial Advisors
      • Staff
      • Research Team
      • Co-Founders
  • PennSEF
    • About
    • Participating
    • Documents
    • Current Indicative Borrowing Rates
    • Financing
    • Webinars
  • The SEU
    • About / The Model
    • FREE and the SEU Initiative
    • Education and Advisory Service
  • Research
  • News & Blog
    • Announcements
    • FREE Thoughts Blog
    • Media Kit
  • Library
    • Policy Briefs
    • Publications
    • Videos
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
You are here: Home / Archives for Policy Briefs

Green Energy Finance: Status and Trends

This FREE Policy Brief provides a snapshot overview on the current status and trends of the U.S. green energy finance market, including an account of the performance of the Delaware SEU and PennSEF programs. The Policy Brief estimates 2012-2017 green energy finance market volume at $54.8 billion, primarily from the issuance of green infrastructure bonds. […]

Read More »

Urban Energy Transformation through Solar City Strategies

This FREE Policy Brief explores three research papers written by FREE researchers on the solar city strategy. The three papers highlight the value of the ‘solar city’ concept in the context of city-wide deployment of solar photovoltaics (PV), explore its potential for six cities across the world, and provide early insight into the practicality of […]

Read More »

Realizing Infrastructure-scale Finance in the Green Bond Market: Scoping Trends

The green bond finance landscape is not only accelerating in terms of issuances but is also undergoing compositional changes such as the entering of municipal and corporate bond issuers in the market. This Policy Brief explores the development and characteristics of the green bond market – a new financing mechanism intended to support investment in […]

Read More »

Sustainable Energy Organizations (SEOs): Evolution and Opportunity

This Policy Brief examines several organizations in the U.S. that are similar to an SEU and two that have adapted the SEU concept to different requirements and settings. In Korean In English In English In Korean

Read More »

Democratic Finance: Energy of the People, by the People, for the People

A full 37 years after President Carter’s speech, the White House is finally once again the owner of a photovoltaic (PV) system installation. To con- tinue on the road ahead, this Policy Note outlines a strategy that seeks to reconnect people to energy, redirect the U.S. towards a green energy econ- omy, and reposition the […]

Read More »

Demand Side Management as a Community Investment – an SEU Approach

Demand side management (DSM) has been a tool of electric utilities for nearly four decades 1 and recently has been enlisted in efforts to decarbonize energy ser- vice. DSM programs deploy energy efficiency meas- ures, conservation efforts and load-management ap- proaches to shape loads. In addition to environmental benefits, DSM can bring rewards of grid […]

Read More »

Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU): The Business Model of the SEU

Positioned as a ‘one-stop-shop’ utility serving 21st century sustainability goals (energy efficiency, renewable energy, materials and water conserva- tion), a Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) represents a new actor in the utility services landscape that is capa- ble of restructuring priorities and pur- suing strategies to realize a New Econ- omy built on sustainability principles. In […]

Read More »
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

Library

  • Publications
  • Policy Briefs
  • Videos

Policy Briefs at a Glance

Green Energy Finance: Status and Trends

Urban Energy Transformation through Solar City Strategies

Realizing Infrastructure-scale Finance in the Green Bond Market: Scoping Trends

Sustainable Energy Organizations (SEOs): Evolution and Opportunity

Democratic Finance: Energy of the People, by the People, for the People

Demand Side Management as a Community Investment – an SEU Approach

Policy Brief Authors

Policy Brief Authors

Announcements

Public Transportation and the Legacy of Jamie Lerner and Curitiba, Brazil

American national climate policy inaction leads to emboldened communities, policy successes

Climate expert to Korean TV audience: How can the U.S. give energy sector workers “a just transition” in moving from coal to renewable energy?

Recent Posts

Africa Charts Its Course in the Age of AI: The Significance of the Africa Declaration

Energy Crisis and Perspectives for Cuba

Stay Connected

Get email updates about new announcements, policy briefs and relevant information.

We never share your contact details.

Article Tags

Abundant Energy Artificial Intelligence Building Energy Efficiency Standards California Carbon Markets Carbon Trading China Clean Energy Clean Energy Financing Climate Change Climate Finance Decarbonization Duck Curve Energy Access Energy and climate investment Energy Efficiency Energy Markets Energy Security Environmental Justice Ethical Cities Green Dispatch Innovation Marine Energy Microbeads Natural Gas NIMBY Nuclear Energy Ocean Energy Paris Agreement Philadelphia Pollutants Polycentric Climate Governance Renewable Energy Resilience Shale Gas Solar Solar City Solar Electricity Solar Mandate Sustainable Cities Sustainable Investing Title 24 Water-Energy Nexus Water Energy

Connect

E: contact@freefutures.org
P: +1 212 705 8758
P: +1 215 494 7383

SUPPORT FREE

Social

  • Email
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube

Search FREE

Copyright © 2025 · FREE · Site by: Epic Brand Media