Featured in Approaching the peak – 04-2013

Elevating solar with property tax funds

Property tax funding: A host of new property tax-based lending programs are arising across the United States bringing a promising new financing mechanism – which could be securitized – to much of the PV market for both residential and commercial installations.
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Charles W. Thurston

Commercial and residential solar PV growth in the United States has yet another market niche emerging, from property-tax assessed clean energy, or PACE programs financed through a myriad of sources. “From a historic total value of US$10 million worth of deals done up to the middle of last year, there have already been US$12 million …

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