CleanTechnica
January 6th, 2015
By Zachary Shahan
There are tremendous financial benefits to building owners and tenants who implement energy efficiency projects. In fact, energy efficiency improvements are generally much cheaper than any type of electricity generation project on a “levelized cost of energy” (LCOE) basis. (If you don’t know what LCOE is, the point is just that energy efficiency is the cheapest option out there.) However, many can’t do so due to lack of good financing options. A good friend from graduate school who is now working at the Institute for Market Transformation, John Miller, recently worked with Brendan McEwen of the MIT Community Innovators Lab to put together a report on the financing tools that cities and other local governments can use to bring financing to more homes and businesses. It’s an excellent resource that includes financing tools I’ve written about many times as well as ones I had never run across. For full article…