Library wall in Washington, DC

US Capital Targets Building Efficiency

Maki Tazawa
Washington, DC is already on track to surpass the building energy efficiency goals it set seven years ago, according to the DC Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE). DOEE has achieved this through a unique public-private partnership participation in the Better Buildings Challenge. It also has a suite of other...

Property-Assessed Clean Energy Aids the Nonprofit Sector

Kat Friedrich
How can social-service organizations tap into property assessed clean energy ( ) and achieve substantial savings? PACENation offered a webinar on April 27, “PACE for Nonprofit-Owned Buildings,” in which speakers outlined case studies of the success stories they have put in motion.

Will California’s Successor Tariff Discourage New Residential Solar?

Ryland Parry
Solar installers, residential customers, utilities, and a host of other stakeholders in the residential solar market are waiting for the California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) Net Energy Metering successor tariff (NEM 2.0), due by the end of 2015. The issue at hand is whether or not, and to what extent...

First Report on Multifamily Solar with Storage Shows Positive ROI

Kat Friedrich
Until this year, no research had been published about how multifamily building owners across the United States can profitably install solar power and energy storage to make it possible for senior citizens and low-income apartment residents to survive extreme weather. Now, a new study from Clean Energy Group has revealed...

Financing Climate Resilience for Affordable Housing

Kat Friedrich
Climate resilience retrofits for affordable multifamily housing are critical to the survival of apartment residents. Jim Newman, principal of Linnean Solutions, said in a workshop at BuildingEnergy 15 on March 4 in Boston that “a lot of people are going to be sheltering in place.”