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Innovative Financing for Clean Energy
By Matthew Brown | October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
On October 19, the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project released a new report authored by ConoverBrown’s Matthew H. Brown and Beth Conover. This report reviews numerous innovations in financing for clean energy, focusing exclusively on financing for the end use consumer. It reviews revolving loan programs operated by utilities, local governments and private lenders. It describes and contrasts numerous different programs that rely on third party billing, utility billing and property tax based billing. This report will be posted shortly on this website but is currently available at .
Your link is broken lol and I am impressed by the typo’s even at
http://www.swenergy.org/events/annual/2009/presentations/Brown_Finance_110909.pdf
especially about how it has to be wanted to work to actually work- somethnig obviously absent from existing programs foro renewables etc.!
identifying such absence of good faith is critical
Your proposals are the exception where the rule is “can we manage to contniue to waste the ever increasing funding?” The answer with 3rd party lenders is NOPE.
I fear it is urgent that we stop wasting money when it can be directed so much better. Efficiency is of course not an alternative welcome but a feared threat to generators. Assuming it is possible to incentivise seems silly. The existing utilities role is to try to limit how much money they lose, not try absurdly to protect profits in the face of there failure to anticipate efficiency in consumption. Ultimately a lender can come in and relieve existing stockholders etc. of the investment in teh short term at a deep discount since the value does not deny that some of the lost value gets directed torwards efficiency and with there change on the dolalr they can invest in instead of resist it for ahonest albeit somewhat more sober return.