At Green Squared, we hear that question a lot. In short, PACE financing allows local municipalities to create their own financing districts which would provide financing for the installation of renewable-energy systems and energy-efficiency improvements to buildings and homes. The loans are repaid through an increased property tax assessment over a period of years, up [...]
Texas already leads the country in wind power, thanks to the windy west Texas plains, according to the EPA. Many in Texas now believe that Texas could also lead in solar. “We actually are a perfect environment, economically and thermodynamically, as a raw resource for solar, but it hasn’t taken off,” said Michael E. Webber, [...]
Here is another article on the massive flow of venture capital money into Energy Efficiency, from an Ernst & Young report. At the end of January, we had a similar post with reports from Deloitte as well as Greentech. The numbers never seem to match among the reports, but the consensus is the same: The [...]
I thought this was pretty interesting considering all of the doom and gloom regarding the retail sector. Several large retailers are making serious investments in greening their businesses. Huge retailer, Kohl’s, increased its green energy purchase by 160 percent, from 851 million kWh to 1.37 billion kWh, moving from the third-largest purchaser to the second-largest [...]
I am a very strong proponent of “following the money.” In real estate, the old adage is “Location, Location, Location.” In energy, it should be “Efficiency, Efficiency, Efficiency.” That’s where the money is. Kevin Surace, the CEO of Serious Materials, who makes energy-saving windows and drywall certainly thinks so as he was quoted in a [...]
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