CleanTechnica » financing http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 5 Steps To Make Your City A Climate Champion, Too http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/5-steps-make-city-climate-champion/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/5-steps-make-city-climate-champion/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:22:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76196 Originally published on ilsr.org. In August 2013, Minneapolis (MN) was in the news for considering a take-over of its energy utilities. Today, they’re back in the news for supporting a first-in-the-nation clean energy partnership with those same utilities and a pioneering effort to bring more local input into the city’s energy future. It’s been a

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/5-steps-make-city-climate-champion/feed/ 2 Jigar Shah’s Next Breakthrough Cleantech Company http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/jigar-shah-breakthrough-cleantech-company/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/jigar-shah-breakthrough-cleantech-company/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:00:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76028 If you aren’t familiar with Jigar Shah, you should be. In my list of 17 cleantech champions published at the beginning of the year, Jigar was tied with Elon Musk at #1. If you’re familiar with Jigar and his work, you know why. If not, you’re probably thinking “What? How can he be tied with Elon?”

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/jigar-shah-breakthrough-cleantech-company/feed/ 8 California’s Reserve Fund Won’t Lift The FHFA Boot From PACE’s Neck http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/19/californias-reserve-fund-wont-lift-fhfa-boot-paces-neck/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/19/californias-reserve-fund-wont-lift-fhfa-boot-paces-neck/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:14:55 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75202 Originally published on ilsr.org. Earlier this year, the state of California announced a $10 million loan-loss reserve to solve the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s severe restrictions on using property-tax based financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy on residential property. It’s a great concept, but evidence from on of California’s best property assessed clean energy (PACE)

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/19/californias-reserve-fund-wont-lift-fhfa-boot-paces-neck/feed/ 6 Cleantech Open Honors Innovators At 5th Midwest Summit http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/30/cleantech-open-honors-innovators-5th-midwest-summit/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/30/cleantech-open-honors-innovators-5th-midwest-summit/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:59:45 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=74227 The Cleantech Open, a 501(c)(3) nongovernmental organization, catalyzes global cleantech. It runs a rigorous one-of-a-kind accelerator program for start-up cleantech companies over a period of five months per year. Rooted in the efforts of volunteers (many of whom are top professionals in their fields), the organization has fostered over 900 emerging businesses since 1996. This week I

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/30/cleantech-open-honors-innovators-5th-midwest-summit/feed/ 0 Off-Grid Renewable Use Conference In Manila (Intro) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/15/grid-renewable-use-conference-manila-intro/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/15/grid-renewable-use-conference-manila-intro/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:49:47 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=68196 Manila, capital city of the Philippines. There are 7,107 islands in the archipelago, of which less than a third are inhabited. It’s tomorrow already for a Chicago resident here in Manila, the most densely populated city in the world and government and commercial capital of the far-flung Philippines, long known as the Pearl of the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/10/canadian-solar-offers-rooftop-financing-residential-projects/feed/ 4 SunPower Teams With Community First For Australian Solar Leasing http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/25/sunpower-teams-with-community-first-for-australian-solar-leasing/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/25/sunpower-teams-with-community-first-for-australian-solar-leasing/#comments Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:00:21 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55506 Originally published on RenewEconomy. US solar giant SunPower has announced it is teaming up with Community First Credit Union to finance its solar module leasing arrangements in Australia. The two companies are offering financing for up to $35,000 over a ten year period for rooftop solar systems ($35,000 will get you a very big system).

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/25/sunpower-teams-with-community-first-for-australian-solar-leasing/feed/ 1 Open PACE Markets Provide Most Benefit to Property Owners http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/21/open-pace-markets-provide-most-benefit-to-property-owners/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/21/open-pace-markets-provide-most-benefit-to-property-owners/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 10:20:27 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=51914 More and more municipalities are embracing Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing programs as a valuable service they can offer to residents at no cost to the public coffers

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/21/open-pace-markets-provide-most-benefit-to-property-owners/feed/ 2 Sungevity Seals Up $125 Million In Financing http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/30/sungevity-seals-up-125-million-in-financing/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/30/sungevity-seals-up-125-million-in-financing/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:00:08 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47776 Sungevity, one of the top online photovoltaic (PV) retailers and solar service companies, recently shored up $125 million in new financing to boost its business. According to PV Magazine, $40 million comes as equity financing from Brightpath Capital Partners. Meanwhile, a “leading commercial” bank as well as Energy Capital Partners are providing $85 million in

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/30/sungevity-seals-up-125-million-in-financing/feed/ 3 Can PACE Local Energy Financing Come Back? http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/10/can-pace-local-energy-financing-come-back/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/10/can-pace-local-energy-financing-come-back/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:15:58 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=42449   It can with your help — submit a comment to the FHFA by Thursday, Sept. 13! After effectively suspending residential PACE energy efficiency and renewable energy municipal financing programs in 2010, and then being taken to federal court and required to do a revised rule making, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its revised

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/10/can-pace-local-energy-financing-come-back/feed/ 2 Could Securitization Democratize Solar Power? http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/24/could-securitization-democratize-solar-power/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/24/could-securitization-democratize-solar-power/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:40:39 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=40588   After Wall Street popularized the term “mortgage-backed securities” in its destruction of the economy in 2008, you could be forgiven for thinking “solar securities” are a pyramid scheme. But, in truth, they may hold the key to democratizing the financing and the ownership of distributed renewable energy. Right now, financing solar typically means looking

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/24/could-securitization-democratize-solar-power/feed/ 6 Local Solar Could Solve ‘Massive Supply-Demand Imbalance’ in Renewable Energy Financing http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/11/local-solar-could-solve-massive-supply-demand-imbalance-in-renewable-energy-financing/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/11/local-solar-could-solve-massive-supply-demand-imbalance-in-renewable-energy-financing/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:09:43 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38950   In the next two years, the U.S. may get a lot less solar and wind power than it could. It’s not a shortage of solar panels or the cost of turbines. Rather, it’s a problem of the perverse nature of federal incentives for renewable energy. Right now, the owner of a solar or wind

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/11/local-solar-could-solve-massive-supply-demand-imbalance-in-renewable-energy-financing/feed/ 1 Why “Passive Activities” May Be Clean Energy’s Biggest Hurdle http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/24/why-passive-activities-may-be-clean-energys-biggest-hurdle/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/24/why-passive-activities-may-be-clean-energys-biggest-hurdle/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:42:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=37375   If you care about the future of the American renewable energy industry, you need to learn what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calls “passive activities.”  Because these important rules mean that as long as the U.S. relies on the tax code to provide renewable energy incentives, renewable energy can only grow as fast as

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/24/why-passive-activities-may-be-clean-energys-biggest-hurdle/feed/ 2 This Could Be Big — Refundable Federal Tax Credit Could Remove Barrier to Community Wind http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/17/this-could-be-big-refundable-federal-tax-credit-could-remove-barrier-to-community-wind/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/17/this-could-be-big-refundable-federal-tax-credit-could-remove-barrier-to-community-wind/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:51:38 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=37129   Since it will take a battle to extend federal tax credits for wind power anyway, why not make community wind development easier at the same time? Last month, President Obama’s Treasury Department released proposed reforms to a number of business taxes including the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind power projects. The reform

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/17/this-could-be-big-refundable-federal-tax-credit-could-remove-barrier-to-community-wind/feed/ 0 SolarShare Bonds Let Citizens Make Money and Finance Local Solar http://cleantechnica.com/2011/10/10/solarshare-bonds-let-citizens-make-money-and-finance-local-solar/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/10/10/solarshare-bonds-let-citizens-make-money-and-finance-local-solar/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:22:56 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=31276 You’re an earth-friendly person and want to go solar, but a large tree shades your house; or you’re a renter; or you don’t have $20,000 to drop on a solar power system. Or maybe you just want to get more than 0.5% interest on your savings account while getting a piece of the clean energy economy

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2011/10/10/solarshare-bonds-let-citizens-make-money-and-finance-local-solar/feed/ 2 More Investments in Renewables in China Than in US and Europe Combined http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/24/more-investments-in-renewables-in-china-than-in-us-and-europe-combined/ http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/24/more-investments-in-renewables-in-china-than-in-us-and-europe-combined/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:48:38 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=13272 China attracted more asset financing in clean-energy technology in the second quarter than Europe and the U.S. combined, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. A clever piece of legislation created the renewable energy bonanza. [social_buttons] Six months ago, China made it the law that all utilities have to buy any renewable power put on the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/24/more-investments-in-renewables-in-china-than-in-us-and-europe-combined/feed/ 7 California's 2nd Chance – Giant 3 GW Wind Farm Gets $1.2 Billion http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/23/californias-2nd-chance-giant-3-gw-wind-farm-gets-1-2-billion/ http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/23/californias-2nd-chance-giant-3-gw-wind-farm-gets-1-2-billion/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:50:54 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=13212 Terra-Gen Power has just received the financing needed to build the next four wind farms in the largest wind energy project on US soil. The company can now build another 570 MW of the gigantic 3,000 MW Alta Wind Energy Center, in the same energy-rich Tehachapi region of California where former Governor Jerry Brown jump-started

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/23/californias-2nd-chance-giant-3-gw-wind-farm-gets-1-2-billion/feed/ 4 Solar Power Costs 50% Lower than Last Year http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/27/solar-power-costs-50-lower-than-last-year/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/27/solar-power-costs-50-lower-than-last-year/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:43:05 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4051 New research by leading alternative energy research firm New Energy Finance finds that solar power will cost less by about 50% at the end of 2009 compared to the end of 2008. The costs are pre-subsidy, so they could be much lower if you take better government subsidies into account. But it isn’t only solar

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/27/solar-power-costs-50-lower-than-last-year/feed/ 0 GE Has Cash, Seeks Startups http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/26/ge-has-cash-seeks-startups/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/26/ge-has-cash-seeks-startups/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:04:02 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1964 It may be a bad time to seek funding, but some cleantech investors see it as a good time to get a deal. At the Clean-Tech Investor Summit in Indian Wells, Calif., last week, Kevin Walsh, managing director of renewable energy for GE Energy Financial Services, said GE is taking advantage of the economic environment

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