This presentation provides an overview of the commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, which may be used by local governments in the United States to finance energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements.
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Source: United States Department of Energy
The authors of this report review advances in energy efficiency legislation and how it has played out in the market through the year 2011. The report follows 25 energy efficiency policy recommendations made in prior years by the International Energy Agency.
Source: International Energy Agency
Date: April 2012
Quick growth in an unregulated market prompted the authors of this report to explore voluntary purchases of renewable energy.
Source: Center for Resource Solutions
Date: September 2009
This guidebook provides guidance, standards and procedures for interconnecting mini grids with a central electric grid as rural electrification advances in developing countries.
Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Schatz Energy Research Center
Date: April 2013
This paper offers lessons learned from the 16 regional and utility-specific, distributed solar generation studies summarized in A Review of Solar PV Benefit and Cost Studies, a July 2013 report by the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Source: Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Inc., Rábago Energy LLC.
Date: March 2014
This report describes how as global electricity demand increases, governments are designing and implementing policies to scale up and catalyze renewable energy.
Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Date: May 2015
This paper explores the impending arrival of the solar-plus-battery as a fundamentally different "utility in a box." The report details scenarios in the U.S.
Source: Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Date: February 2014
The authors of this study analyse the California electric vehicle market in 2015 to discern best-practice policy and promotion activities that might be emulated elsewhere.
Source: The International Council on Clean Transportation
Date: September 2016
This website provides case studies of local governments that are powering their operations and lowering their emissions using renewable energy, such as solar, wind, and geothermal technologies and methane capture from landfills.
Source: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
This report reviews numerous voluntary renewable energy purchase markets in the United States. Sales, customer participation, community programs, and tradable certificate pricing are explored from several perspectives to identify market trends and opportunities for future growth.
Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Date: September 2013