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Ygrene funding helps communities create jobs, stimulate the local economy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and work toward energy independence. Learn More...
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Owners
Ygrene programs finance projects that save owners money, make buildings more comfortable, and improve energy efficiency. Learn More...
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Contractors
Ygrene has programs to certify local contractors, EPCs and ESCOs to fulfill a wide range of project requirements. Learn More...
Featured Program
Clean Energy Sacramento
Clean Energy Sacramento is a simple property improvement financing solution that enables building owners to finance renewable energy and efficiency upgrades repayable over the long term on their property taxes.
The City’s program, managed and funded by Ygrene, achieves a triple bottom line. It creates jobs, builds the economy, and helps the environment. Sacramento is leading the way as one of the most sustainable, green cities in the country.
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Tax Plan to Turn Old Buildings ‘Green’ Finds Favor
NEW YORK, Sept 19, 2011 by JUSTIN GILLIS of the New York Times
A business consortium that includes Lockheed Martin and Barclays bank plans to invest as much as $650 million over the next few years to slash the energy consumption of buildings in the Miami and Sacramento areas. It is the most ambitious effort yet to jump-start a national market for energy upgrades that many people believe could eventually be worth billions.
Focusing mainly on commercial property at first, the group plans to exploit a new tax arrangement that allows property owners to upgrade their buildings at no upfront cost, typically cutting their energy use and their utility bills by a third. The building owners would pay for the upgrades over five to 20 years through surcharges on their property-tax bills, but that would be less than the savings.
The consortium is led by a company called Ygrene Energy Fund of Santa Rosa, Calif., which has already won an exclusive contract to manage a retrofit program for a half-dozen communities in the Miami area, with the city expected to join in a few weeks. It is in the late stages of completing a contract with Sacramento, and is seeking deals in other cities...
Carbon War Room-Brokered Consortium Set to Unlock Multi-Billion Dollar Global Commercial Property Retrofit Market
NEW YORK, Sep 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE)
Ygrene Energy Fund-led PACE Commercial Consortium launches first $650 million retrofit package for commercial property in Miami-Dade County, Florida and Sacramento, California New York, September 20 2011 –
The Carbon War Room, an independent non-profit, founded by Sir Richard Branson, that harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to unlock gigaton solutions to climate change, announced today the launch of a new consortium that will unlock billions of dollars of investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies for US commercial real estate.
The PACE Commercial Consortium (PCC) integrates the program management and engineering best practices of Lockheed Martin, the financial sophistication of Barclays Capital and the pioneering insurance partnership of Energi and HannoverRe in an end-to-end solution administered by the team's leader, Ygrene Energy Fund...
News: Green Capital Global Challenge
Ygrene Energy Fund-led PACE Commercial Consortium launches first $650 million retrofit package for commercial property in Miami-Dade County, Florida and Sacramento, California New York, September 20 2011 – The Carbon War Room, an independent non-profit, founded by Sir Richard Branson, that harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to unlock gigaton solutions to climate change, announced today the... Read More
