By: Wayne Grohl August 12, 2013 With recent announcements by the White House reinvigorating solar energy goals through the Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative, the costs of solar are expected to continue their trend downwards to eventually meet those of conventionally generated electricity. The most recent initiative makes it a goal for solar to get there [...]
Energy efficiency was the key to the first REIT for renewables. By: Herman K. Trabish May 30, 2013 The trick to getting the first innovative financing vehicle for renewable energy was to not mention renewable energy. Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure (NYSE:HASI), with 30 years of experience at financing renewables and energy efficiency and a $1.6 [...]
MLPs, REITs and securities can make the renewables business the nation’s business. By: Herman K. Trabish March 21, 2013 A transformation in solar and wind financing that began with third-party ownership, crowd-funding, and community-owned projects is about to move renewables profits from Wall Street to Main Street. “Solar- and wind-power developers generally raise money for [...]
EPR Squared says its “real estate structure” can put solar on multi-tenant buildings. Herman K. Trabish July 5, 2012 Third-party financing of solar projects is growing. Fast. California, which represents 40 percent of U.S. solar, went from 42,933 total kilowatts installed in the first five months of 2011 to 77,473 in the same period [...]
Studying Summit bank building on feasibility of new cost, lending concept SANTA ROSA (April 4, 2011) — A team of graduate students is spending the next couple of months analyzing the Summit State Bank headquarters building in northeast Santa Rosa as part of a feasibility study on a new type of renewable-energy system financing designed [...]
