Ben Bovarnick is a masters of environmental management candidate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, focusing on how regulatory policy and innovative financial tools can be used to develop new markets for advanced energy technologies, with particular focus on the electricity sector. At Yale, he is a researcher for the SEEDS II low-moderate-income-solar-market project. In partnership with CBEY, he is also conducting an independent study on the barriers and opportunities for increasing the role of new energy technologies within U.S. electricity markets.