Sonoma County has prepared the Replication Guidance Package for Local Governments to assist local governments in developing a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program.
From the New York Times: ”A business consortium that includes Lockheed Martin and Barclays bank plans to invest as much as $650 million over the next few years to slash the energy consumption of buildings in the Miami and Sacramento areas. It is the most ambitious effort yet to jump-start a national market for energy upgrades that many people believe could eventually be worth billions.” NY Times story here….
Energy-conference-set-for-March…..When the Federal Housing Finance Agency issued a letter last July slapping strong restrictions on affordable financing programs for energy efficiency, such as Palm Desert’s, it was widely viewed as a death knell for the programs, which have spread from the Coachella Valley to 22 states across the nation. But now, a city-sponsored conference, set for March 3-4 at UC Riverside’s Palm Desert campus, aims to rally national support for clean energy financing programs and map out new strategies for either circumventing or ending the federal stranglehold.
Housing Crisis Stalls Energy Efficient Home Loans – Adam Aston reports on the FHFA roadblock to residential PACE programs…
