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Financing
- Chapter 4: Financing from Energy Star Building Upgrade Manual - discusses numerous ways, including performance contracting, to pay for energy efficiency improvements.
- NAESCO: National Association of Energy Service Corporations - Resources, templates, and tons of helpful information from Brattleboro, VT , who selected an ESCO to do a performance contract on School and Government buildings.
- Performance Contracting 1 and Performance Contracting 2 - are a series of two presentations on energy saving performance contracting, a method used to finance energy efficiency improvements through the expected savings from those improvements.
- Resources - resources, templates, and tons of helpful information from Brattleboro, VT , who selected an ESCO to do a performance contract on School and Government buildings.
- Sustainable Communities Programs - is a listing and explanation of DOT, HUD and EPA Programs for Sustainable Communities
- Documents from performance contracting workshop:
- Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency(DSIRE) - is a comprehensive, searchable, state based database of incentives.
- Incentive Programs - summarizes the Federal, State of Michigan, and utility incentives available for energy efficiency and renewable implementation.
- MIsaves - is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making energy improvements easy and affordable. We offer the Home Energy Loan Program to help homeowners finance the cost of energy efficiency improvements. Additional financing programs for commercial, institutional, and renewable energy projects are in development.
- Energy Revolving Loan Fund Handout - is a basic description of an energy revolving loan fund, using the case of the Cities of Promise program in Michigan, administered by the Clean Energy Coalition, which seeks to establish Energy Revolving Loan funds in all of 10 Cities of Promise in Michigan.
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