Lessons From the Past 10 Years: Pooled Assets
By: Rob Day October 22, 2013 Solyndra, Tesla, Fisker, cap-and-trade, "America is addicted to oil" -- there have been a lot of watershed moments, good and bad, in the cleantech [...]
Corporate Investors and the Shift in Cleantech VC
Corporations are aggressively moving into greentech to deploy VC-backed innovation. By: Herman K. Trabish September 25, 2013 “Of the $2.6 billion of cleantech venture capital investment in 2012 in California, [...]
New Idea: Third-Party Solar Finance For Commercial Property
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 [...]
How Hannon Armstrong Got the IRS to Approve Its Renewable REIT
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 [...]
New Financing Tools Move Renewables From Wall Street to Main Street
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 [...]
Third-Party Finance for the Other 90 Percent (of Commercial Buildings)
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 [...]