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]
Western Riverside County and California are leading the way forward in providing innovative financing for homeowners to carry out clean energy, energy and water efficiency renovations and retrofits. $50mm in HERO Program projects have been approved, which is projected to create as many as 4,000 local green contractor jobs, as well as enabling homeowners to reduce their energy and water bills, which in turn’s going to take a big bite out of the county and state’s electricity and water usage, carbon and greenhouse gas emissions.
14 California counties and 126 cities have launched the first state-wide and the nation’s largest PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) program, which aims to boost clean energy use, as well as energy and water efficiency for commercial property owners. The landmark program stands to boost local economies, create jobs, and yield savings for consumers while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy, and water consumption. […]
Home clean energy project financing in Riverside County is surging higher with the launch of an innovative public-private PACE partnership, HERO (Home Energy Renovation Opportunity). HERO is boosting job creation and the local economy, along with helping consumers cut energy costs and helping the state meet its GHG emissions reduction targets […]
A useful note from our friends over at Vote Solar about an über important solar/clean energy/energy efficiency policy, PACE financing: Friends, For over two years we’ve been fighting to get PACE programs back on track nationwide. Well, the fight continues – and we need your help now. These promising clean energy finance programs … [continued]
The Florida Green Finance Authority has partnered with the C40-Clinton Climate Initiative and leading communities, San Francisco and Los Angeles County, to launch the Commercial Clean Energy Financing Alliance in an effort to share best practices and bring prudent standards for PACE (property assessed clean energy). “PACE by its very … [continued]
I was on a conference call yesterday with Tom Kimbis, Vice President of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), and Shayle Kann, Vice President of Research at GTM Research. The conference call was for the announcement of the latest US Solar Market Insight report (for Q1 2012), which Josh had a great summary of earlier … [continued]
The solar-energy-gifted Sunshine State where I grew up has a ways to go to catch up to solar power leaders like California and New Jersey(!). The good news, however, is that one small town in Florida, Lantana, has just implemented the state’s first commercial PACE program, and hopefully this … [continued]
Vote Solar wrote up a good post yesterday urging us all, one more time, to put our fingers to work and go ‘speak up’ for solar power — and PACE financing, in particular. I’m just going to repost that piece from Vote Solar, since it’s succinct and packed full of … [continued]
Yes, I wrote just a few weeks ago on two opportunities to save (or resurrect) PACE financing — one of the best things that happened to local, democratized, clean energy… before it was killed — and one of those opportunities still remains (you can still ask your Representative to … [continued]
