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31 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency

Green Squared VP Business Development, Phil Stringer and President, Bobby Bragg, attended the CATEE (Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency) 2010 conference last week in Austin, Texas. Here are some notes from the conference: The conference was opened by Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell, C. Donald Babers, Regional Administrator for Region VI, U.S. HUD and Texas Public [...]

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18 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Sustainability and Energy Efficiency are top of executive minds

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 [...]

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26 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Are solar carports becoming a reality?

It sure seems like I am seeing more and more articles like this one from the USA Today, titled, “Turning parking lots into vast urban solar farms.” And if it makes it into a paper like the USA Today, it is certainly mainstream. What are solar carports? Take typical surface parking lots — like ones [...]

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22 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Case for PACE Financing and the Concerns

We’ve talked about PACE financing quite a bit around here over the course of the last several months. Initially, we just explained what it actually is back in February, (What is PACE financing?). And there is this YouTube video which does some explaining in PACE 101. We also touched on the new Florida law that [...]

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05 July 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Wall Street investing time and money in solar

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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