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Bank of America's Energy Efficiency Finance Program Rewards Innovators

The Bank of America Energy Efficiency Finance Program has provided low-interest loans and grants to community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to increase access to energy efficiency retrofits in low- to moderate-income communities. The program...

Clean Energy Finance Center Helps to Design First Statewide Commercial PACE Program

Connecticut’s Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) legislation passed the state legislature on June 12. This legislation creates the first statewide C-PACE program in the country. Decreasing building energy consumption will benefit the public...

Critical Need for Energy Savings and Loan Performance Data Remains Unmet

A vast gap exists between the detailed information financial institutions need to support energy efficiency financing and the limited data they currently have. Several examples suggest these loan programs can succeed, but there are no large datasets supporting...

Connecticut's Green Bank Begins to Develop Innovative Programs to Leverage Private Sector Investment in Clean Energy

The Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (CEFIA) reported earlier this month that it had begun to develop several new clean energy financing programs. A main goal of CEFIA, Connecticut’s “green bank” which was created last year, is to transition...

Kat Friedrich

Kat Friedrich

Katherine Friedrich has a graduate degree from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Half of her coursework was in journalism. She has done research on energy-efficient behavior and diversity-conscious science communication. She...

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