Assessing financing options
How-Tos
Overview: Energy Efficiency Financing Tools for Municipal Buildings
This fact sheet provides an overview of the ways city officials can finance energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings.
Overview: Energy Efficiency Financing Tools for Private Buildings
This fact sheet provides an overview of the ways that city officials can make available tools and mechanisms for financing efficiency in private sector buildings.
Overview: Energy Efficiency Primer
This primer provides an overview to options for financing energy efficiency and lays out ways that city officials can finance energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings as well as help make available tools for financing efficiency in private sector buildings.
Overview: Financing Navigator (Better Buildings)
This online tool is designed to provide guidance on financing options available for energy efficiency projects, and helps a user explore how to best create a customized financing solution.
Private Buildings (PACE): Connecticut C-PACE Program Administration and Transparency
Connecticut’s statewide commercial financing program, the Connecticut C-PACE program, has achieved $130.4 million total closed project financing, with an average loan amount of $546,000 and 239 closed projects.
Private Buildings (PACE): Introduction to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing
This fact sheet describes what PACE financing is, how it works and what city government can do to implement a PACE program for private sector buildings.
Private Buildings (PACE): MinnPace Financing Partnerships and Creativity
This case study describes how Minnesota put in place an effective PACE financing mechanism and has leveraged $40 million in energy efficiency and renewable energy investment through a variety of partnerships and creative mechanisms within and across government agencies.
Private Buildings: Introduction to Utility On-Bill Financing
This fact sheet describes what on-bill financing is and how it can help city government to enable more energy efficiency investment.
Public Buildings: Current Practices in Efficiency Financing: An Overview for State and Local Governments
This overview report shares detailed insights on trends in financing programs at the local and state levels. The resource aims to provide local governments enough information about the current efficiency financing efforts they may be engaged in and help them to assess options going forward while still taking into account local energy efficiency goals.
Public Buildings: Local Governments’ Role in Energy Project Financing
This Institute for Market Transformation report provides detailed information on how cities can utilize various energy efficiency finance strategies and choose policies best tailored to meet the individual needs of any local market.
Public Buildings: New York City’s Approach to Self-Funding of Municipal Buildings
This case study lays out how New York City put in place a self-funding model to enable investments in energy efficiency over a 10-year period.
Public/Private Buildings (Educating Lenders): How Cities Can Educate Lenders on Energy Efficiency
This fact sheet provides an overview on how city officials can help educate lenders about the benefits of energy efficient buildings and how that could relate to underwriting standards.
Public/Private Buildings: California Investor-Owned Utility On-Bill Financing Program
This case study describes on-bill financing programs managed by California investor-owned utilities.
Public/Private Buildings: Introduction to Revolving Loan Funds
A revolving loan fund is a financing mechanism that can used for both municipal and public sector buildings. In this fact sheet, learn how city governments establish revolving loan funds for energy efficiency projects.
Public/Private Buildings: New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation Revolving Loan Fund
This case study details a revolving loan fund program in New York City, managed by the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation, that focuses on funding clean energy investments in private sector buildings.
Public/Private Buildings: San Antonio’s Municipal Revolving Loan Fund
This case study describes a revolving loan fund program in San Antonio which provides funds for ongoing energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings.
City Examples
Private Buildings (PACE): Connecticut C-PACE Program Administration and Transparency
Connecticut’s statewide commercial financing program, the Connecticut C-PACE program, has achieved $130.4 million total closed project financing, with an average loan amount of $546,000 and 239 closed projects.
Private Buildings (PACE): MinnPace Financing Partnerships and Creativity
This case study describes how Minnesota put in place an effective PACE financing mechanism and has leveraged $40 million in energy efficiency and renewable energy investment through a variety of partnerships and creative mechanisms within and across government agencies.
Public Buildings: New York City’s Approach to Self-Funding of Municipal Buildings
This case study lays out how New York City put in place a self-funding model to enable investments in energy efficiency over a 10-year period.
Public/Private Buildings: California Investor-Owned Utility On-Bill Financing Program
This case study describes on-bill financing programs managed by California investor-owned utilities.
Public/Private Buildings: New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation Revolving Loan Fund
This case study details a revolving loan fund program in New York City, managed by the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation, that focuses on funding clean energy investments in private sector buildings.
Public/Private Buildings: San Antonio’s Municipal Revolving Loan Fund
This case study describes a revolving loan fund program in San Antonio which provides funds for ongoing energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings.