Webinar & Events - Finance

Low-Income Solar, Part 2: Using the Tools of Low-Income Energy Efficiency Financing

March 30, 2017

In this webinar presented by CESA’s Sustainable Solar Education Project, Greg Leventis from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reviewed low-income energy efficiency financing products and discussed how different financing products can address different barriers to low-income energy improvements.

Designing Publicly Supported Solar Loan Programs

January 12, 2017

This webinar overviews CESA’s new best practices guidebook on designing publicly supported residential solar loan programs. NREL’s Travis Lowder and CT Green Bank’s Ben Healey presented.

DOE’s Solar in Your Community Challenge

January 10, 2017

This webinar provided an overview of the Solar in Your Community Challenge, a DOE-sponsored contest to support innovative and replicable community-based solar business models and programs that will bring solar to underserved communities.

The Economics of Resilient Solar+Storage for Critical Infrastructure

September 14, 2016

In this webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, guest speakers from NREL and CUNY presented the findings and detail the methodology used in their recent report, “Economic and Resiliency Impact of PV and Storage on New York Critical Infrastructure.”

State of the U.S. Energy Storage Industry: Q1-Q2 2016

August 3, 2016

In this webinar hosted by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, guest speakers from GTM Research shared insights related to recent developments in the U.S. energy storage market including deployment trends, policy updates, and market outlook (2016-2021).

Residential Solar Financing 101

June 22, 2016

Travis Lowder from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory discusses common residential solar financing choices, solar financing consumer protection issues, publicly supported solar finance programs from around the country, and broad solar financing trends.

Reducing Electric Bills in California Multifamily Affordable Housing with Solar+Storage

June 15, 2016

In this webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, panelists from Clean Energy Group, the California Housing Partnership, the Center for Sustainable Energy, and Geli discuss the findings of their new report on solar+storage for California affordable multifamily housing.

Impacts of Federal Tax Credit Extensions on Renewable Deployment and Power Sector Emissions

March 18, 2016

NREL has released a new report exploring the likely impacts of recently extended federal tax credits on the deployment of renewable generation and on CO2 emissions. CESA is hosting a webinar with the report’s lead author, Trieu Mai, to discuss the report’s findings.

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells for Resiliency: Financing Energy Resiliency

February 18, 2016

Guest speakers from the CT Green Bank and the NY Green Bank will discuss their programs. Participants will also learn about ways to finance projects and utilize existing financial tools, such as long-term and low interest rate loans, revolving loan funds, and low-cost public investments to leverage hydrogen and fuel cell projects for resilient power.

New Jersey Energy Storage Rebate Program

February 17, 2016

The New Jersey Energy Storage Program is back, this time in the form of an open enrollment prescriptive rebate that will offer $300/kWh for eligible systems. The $3 million rebate program opens March 1. Join us to learn about program rules and requirements from the New Jersey BPU.