Goldfield Partners is “very confident” it can raise an initial ₤50 million by June to finance contracts it has secured with solar PV system providers to install solar energy systems for residents living government-supported housing. […]
Editor’s note: this looks like a great UK solar financing option and I’m happy to give Jarrah the platform to write about it here — check it out: Recent developments in the United Kingdom have detrimentally affected one of the most popular methods of domestic solar PV finance. The … [continued]
Solar energy is more affordable now than ever. Reportedly, the cost of solar has even dropped below the cost of nuclear now. And, in the long term, of course, solar energy is a good investment that will eventually put more money in your pocket. But for a person or family … [continued]
Apparently carbon emissions from coal plants were previously underestimated by half by British scientists advising the British government on the best ways to reduce electricity demand. That revised rate is 0.69 kilograms of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour of consumed electricity, not 0.43 kilograms. They were using an estimated figure … [continued]
Grist is reporting that the Obama administration has tried and failed to stop Fannie and Freddie from putting up a roadblock to low-cost clean energy financing through PACE programs. Here is my suggestion to make Fannie and Freddie stakeholders, to make PACE a win-win-win-win. The administration had invested $100 million … [continued]
California’s PG&E has just invested $100 million in SunRun, which offers solar power purchase agreements, (in addition to its earlier $61 million investment in Solar City‘s solar lease), through its investment arm, Pacific Energy Capital. Some of the California utility investment will help homeowners in other states, like Texas, get … [continued]
Here in California, now that it is possible to pay-as-you-go for solar and switch to solar power with a lease or a PPA, which is the best way to get solar? (In many other states, pay-as-you-go plans are not an option because utilities in those states won’t allow the competition, … [continued]
In the first four months of 2010, California solar applications totaled nearly much as in all four quarters last year, according to Mark Bachman of Auriga USA. Through all of 2009, Californians installed 265 MW on their rooftops, about the size of one typical electric power station. This year we … [continued]
Being able to take advantage of solar incentives for could be a huge boon to community groups of all kinds, from churches to schools to gardening clubs and could be a great model to other states where urban dwellers lack rooftops of their own.
In another indication of its popularity; the New York legislature just voted an astounding 192-0 to offer municipal financing for clean energy improvements on homes and businesses through Property Assessed Clean Energy or PACE programs, backed by Federal bonds. [social_buttons] Just in time to apply to the Department of Energy … [continued]
