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Financing Growth in the Green Economy Remains a Local Endeavor

Posted by Administrator on 7/20/15 12:42 PM

In the absence of a national green infrastructure bank that could provide financing for clean, renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects, individual states have stepped up to fill the gap and provide financial incentives and promote and facilitate investment. We discussed earlier in this blog how New York and New Jersey are rethinking energy finance and embracing green banks to support investment in renewable energy and distributed energy resources.

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Topics: Energy Policy, Structured Transactions & Tax, Energy Efficiency, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

Six Questions to Consider about Microgrids

Posted by Administrator on 7/14/15 2:30 PM


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Topics: Utilities, Energy Policy, Structured Transactions & Tax, Energy Storage, Energy Efficiency, Microgrid, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Energy Management, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Public/Private Partnership, Wind

Opening the Small Commercial Solar Market

Posted by Administrator on 6/17/15 7:23 PM

While the solar market has been exploding over the past few years, the small commercial segment of the market, made up of locations like apartment buildings, office buildings, small businesses, factories, warehouses, and hospitals, has been extraordinarily slow to develop. Residential installations, built on standardized transactions and easy access to financing because projects can be pooled based on homeowner credit scores, is red hot as large investors with cheap capital are attracted to homogenous amassed projects and the perception of well-understood credit risk. The utility scale solar market also continues to grow (despite fewer available long-term power purchase agreements) on the strength of declining costs and abundant liquidity in the form of very low cost capital driven significantly by yieldcos.

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Topics: Energy Efficiency, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

Economics of Installing Combined Heating and Power Systems

Posted by Administrator on 6/10/15 6:47 AM

With states adopting programs to encourage energy users to install combined heating and power (CHP) systems, building owners and asset managers are asking themselves the bottom line question - how can CHP increase my operating income and asset value?

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Topics: Energy Security, Energy Efficiency, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Energy Management

Opening the Multi-Trillion Dollar Market for Energy Management

Posted by Administrator on 6/9/15 5:55 AM

Energy management is one of the most important parts of our changing energy landscape. It is a market made up of part energy efficiency, part Big Data solution and part Internet of Things. Energy management will be a multi-trillion dollar industry that will reverberate across industrialized economies. The competitive advantage in virtually every economic sector will be redefined by companies’ ability to manage volatile energy prices. It will change how we consume energy. Significant reductions in energy use are an obvious outcome (with corresponding pressure on energy companies), but even more exciting are the social and economic benefits of being able to preform significantly more work with our existing energy resources.

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Topics: Energy Security, Energy Efficiency, Distributed Energy, Energy Management

Water Energy Nexus Series: Emerging Energy Recovery and Energy Efficiency Technologies Spur Investment in New Water and Wastewater Infrastructure

Posted by Administrator on 4/1/15 8:40 AM

This post is the second in our series on the challenges posed by the “water/energy nexus” and how water and wastewater utilities are responding to those challenges. As discussed in more detail in our prior post, the term “water/energy nexus” refers generally to the interdependence between the water/wastewater and energy sectors of the economy. Discussed in this post is the impact of emerging energy recovery and energy efficiency technologies on new infrastructure development by water and wastewater utilities.

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Topics: Water Energy Nexus, Water, Energy Efficiency

Solutions to Energy Project Funding: Understanding the DOE Loan Program

Posted by Jeffrey Karp on 3/30/15 8:10 AM

Sponsors of innovative technology projects often have difficulty obtaining private debt financing due to the absence of a deployment track record. The Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office (LPO) may provide a way to fill this gap; currently, it is accepting applications for debt financing and loan guarantees, including up to $8 billion for Advanced Fossil Energy Projects, $4 billion for Renewable Energy and Efficient Energy Projects, and $12.5 billion for Advanced Nuclear Energy Projects.

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Topics: Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Finance, Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy and the Water/Energy Nexus Series: Challenges Remain

Posted by Administrator on 3/23/15 8:50 AM


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Topics: Water Energy Nexus, Water, Energy Efficiency, Power Generation

Congress Extends Program Facilitating Cooperation on Innovative Technologies Between Israel and the United States

Posted by Jeffrey Karp on 1/16/15 11:03 AM

On December 19, 2014, President Obama signed into law S. 2673, which extends Congressional authorization through September 30, 2024 for the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation’s Energy Program.

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Topics: Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

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