Originally published on the ECOreport Since it started up in 2011, the HERO Property Assessed Clean Energy (HERO PACE) Program has completed more than 50,000 residential projects. That may not seem like much, in a state whose 39 million inhabitants are still hoping to see the end of the worst … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. In 2007, the City of Berkeley came up with an innovative program to hasten the adoption of solar technology. Homeowners could finance installations through their property taxes. Scientific American called it one of the top 20 “world-changing” ideas of the year. Unfortunately, the United States was … [continued]
Originally Published in the ECOreport On Wednesday, San Diego Supervisors Dianne Jacob and Dave Roberts joined San Diego City Council President Todd Gloria and representatives from the HERO PACE program and a local solar company on the steps outside the County Administration Center. They announced that the HERO PACE energy- … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. A little more than two years since it was launched in Riverside County, the Home Energy Renovation Opportunity (HERO) financing program is on the verge of an expansion that will soon be accessible to 70% of Californians. “The past two years have confirmed that California cities are … [continued]
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing is one of the awesomest clean energy programs out there. Basically, here’s the summary: 1) your solar power system (or energy efficiency upgrade) is financed through government-issued bonds*; 2) you pay the bonds back through higher property taxes for a decade or two to … [continued]
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing may be my favorite option by which people can go solar (or make energy efficiency or water efficiency upgrades, for that matter). One way in which this is being enabled is through the HERO Program. Over 40 California cities have implemented PACE financing in this … [continued]
Editor’s note: PACE programs are hugely supported by CleanTechnica, and we’ve written about them (and summarized the idea) several times over the years. Here’s another good summary (I think we’re due for one, in case you haven’t heard about the idea yet) as well as quite an interesting potential collision … [continued]
