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An Overview of Colorado C-PACE: A Conversation with Paul Scharfenberger
An Overview of Colorado C-PACE: A Conversation with Paul Scharfenberger

Last week, Lotus was fortunate to speak with Paul Scharfenberger, the Director of Finance and Operations at the Colorado Energy Office, about the new financing tool being rolled out called Colorado’s Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (“Colorado C-PACE”).  C-PACE financing is an innovative, yet proven, financing mechanism for commercial, agricultural, institutional, industrial, non-profit and multifamily (residential units with 4 or less units are excluded) properties to obtain low-cost, long-term financing (up to 20 years) for renewable energy, energy efficiency and water conservation upgrades.

Since many of our clients are interested in C-PACE, we were thrilled to ask him a few questions

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BlogEmily and HillaryC-PACE, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, FinancingComment
Finding Money
Finding Money

Many sustainability professionals have experienced the frustration of not being able to implement energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades for the sole reason that they are not able to pay for it. Even if the return-on-investment is great, the cost of delaying the upgrade is high, and there is staff buy-in sometimes upgrades simply do not fit within the budget. However, the world of energy efficiency and renewable energy financing has matured considerably over the last ten years enabling many public and private sector entities to implement upgrades that would have previously not been feasible

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BlogEmily and HillaryFinancing, Funding, Energy Performance Contracting, Energy Efficiency, Renewable EnergyComment