Policy News
- July 29, 2011
- Will the new fuel economy rules actually work?
- Washington Post, Brad Plumer
- This morning, Barack Obama is scheduled to unveil one of the biggest policy accomplishments of his term—though it certainly won’t seem that way. After the president gives his televised remarks on the debt ceiling crisis, the White House is expected to announce—at a much sleepier Washington Convention Center venue—that it ... more ›
- July 25, 2011
- Guest Post: Why PACE Deserves to Return
- Greentech Media, Rosalind Jacksno
- A bipartisan effort to revive the home retrofit program will create jobs and reduce financial risk. It’s all upside. Last week, a bipartisan trio of House Representatives announced legislation to reinstate local governments’ right to run PACE energy retrofit programs. By the time the “PACE Assessment Protection Act of 2011” had ... more ›
- July 21, 2011
- The Pressure to add clean power in California
- Earth2Tech, Ucilia Wang
- Setting renewable energy mandates for utilities has been the big policy hammer that forces the use of wind, solar and other sources of cleaner power in the U.S. The pressure has intensified in California now that utilities are required to meet at least a 33 percent mandate by 2020. Utility Pacific ... more ›
- July 20, 2011
- US Energy Department Celebrates Loan Guarantee Successes as Stimulus-Supported 1705 Program Comes to Close
- Biofuels Digest, Jonathan Silver Executive Director, U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office
- Since my last update six months ago, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) has been extremely busy, committing or closing 19 additional financings of clean energy projects – including one of the country’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants, Project LIBERTY, sponsored by POET, LLC. LPO announced 12 ... more ›
- July 20, 2011
- Bipartisan Bid To Revive PACE Solar Financing Program
- Forbes, Todd Woody
- t doesn’t exactly mark the Age of Aquarius, but amid the partisan rancor paralyzing Washington, two Republicans and a Democrat have joined forces to introduce legislation to revive a popular residential solar financing program scuttled by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year. Called Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, the program pioneered by ... more ›
