A new report out by Deloitte on Sustainability has some very interesting nuggets about sustainability in general. One caveat: the survey was of only 48 people who are in charge of sustainability for their companies. I think that sample size is too small. And, given these folks’ role in the organization, I am afraid their [...]
I love these types of stories…Tishman Speyer turned your average 23-year old downtown Manhattan office building into a LEED Gold building by doing nothing out of the ordinary. That’s right, no wind turbines, solar panels, or geothermal digs. David Roth of gbNYC (Green Building in NYC) nails it with “What happened at 375 Hudson is [...]
In a recent Texas Tribune article, Chris Winland of Good Company Associates is quoted as saying that four Texas cities are “most aggressively” pursuing PACE financing deals. Those four are San Antonio, Austin, Houston and El Paso. The CenTex cities of Austin and San Antonio were widely regarded as the most likely candidates as Austin [...]
This is still very early stage stuff from Google, but PowerMeter, Google’s app for allowing homeowners to monitor their home’s energy consumption on their smartphone or computer using data collected from smart meter sensors, could also be used for water and gas utilities. Google initially announced its intentions with PowerMeter in early 2009. Cisco has [...]
Last week, we blogged here about a $100M tax equity fund to finance residential solar installations. The installations were to be performed by a company call SunRun. On Tuesday, June 29th, SunRun announced it closed a Series C round of funding for $55 million led by Sequoia Capital and joined by existing investors Accel Partners [...]
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