12 Jul '12, 3pm

Crowdsourcing, Limited Partnerships and Other Tools for Financing our Clean-Energy Future

“The technologies are here,” explains Aaron Berg of Portland-based Blue Tree Strategies and one of the key architects behind Clean Energy Works Oregon , an on-bill energy efficiency financing vehicle for homeowners. “It’s no longer a technology problem but more about creating and enabling breakthrough business and finance models.” In the past few months two financing options, one which we’ve been tracking closely and the other which came as a surprise, have been gaining traction and support. And in many ways they couldn’t be more different. One relies on tried and true capital models historically deployed around the exploitation of traditional fossil fuels, in particular natural gas. The other plans to use the power of 21st century, web-based crowdsourcing to democratize the financing process of solar installations. While attacking the clean-energy finance conundrum from v...

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