One of the United States’ leading clean energy finance companies, Renew Financial, has announced that it raised $70 million in growth capital. Renew Financial, based out of California, announced on its website this week that it had successfully raised $70 million, thanks to investors such as Angeleno Group, Apollo Capital Management, … [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]
When I first started writing about energy and, in particular, energy policy, energy efficiency wasn’t at the top of my list for the most important thing to support, promote, or put money into. I knew it was good and knew it deserved to be in the mix, but I didn’t … [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.
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]
