This is a very important post on a very important clean energy financing option that has been in hibernation, or maimed, for quite awhile now. Check it out and make sure to take action via the links on the bottom of the post! (Note that it was originally published on January 25.) If you’re interested in reading more on PACE than what’s below, check out our page on it (linked above).
Expectations cause a lot of problems — without expectations, we couldn’t be disappointed. However, it’s impractical not to have any expectations. So, the important thing is really just not to tie your happiness to your expectations too much. Work hard, be good, but also be flexible when it comes to … [continued]
Sammy Chu knows that energy efficiency creates local jobs. He’s seen it for himself. As director of Long Island Green Homes, a local financing program based around Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), Chu has seen the creation of dozens of new contractor positions that have helped his home town of Babylon, New York, invest millions of dollars in efficiency retrofits.
Although not about streetcars as the title suggests and not working directly from the private sector possibly a new front has been set up to fight against the successes of the alternative energy movement.
PACE, which stands for Property Assessed Clean Energy, was one of the best things that happened to the U.S… before it got killed (or temporarily maimed) by Fannie and Freddie Mae in 2010.
[social_buttons] It is really quite sad what Republicans have done to the Senate and what they are doing to the country and the world as a result. Even conservatives Dick Schmalensee, who served on President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Jonathan Kay are calling out their colleagues … [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]
[social_buttons] Despite the economic recession, the solar industry grew significantly in 2009. The solar industry added 17,000 jobs to the US economy in 2009. Installed solar capacity grew by approximately 37%. And we saw a serious drop in the cost of solar. (more info and graphs below) 46,000 jobs are … [continued]
PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing is one of the most exciting clean energy topics of the past few years. It is also one of the hottest topics to keep an eye on, I think. I’m not the only one who thinks so, though — Harvard Business Review has named … [continued]
This week a new type of utility-financed energy efficiency subsidy was introduced by Senator Merkley of Oregon to some surprisingly bipartisan support, gaining two Republican co-sponsors, in an indication of where a few Republican votes might be found in energy and climate legislation. [social_buttons] The Rural Energy Savings Program would … [continued]
