Picking up the PACE : a new tool for financing energy efficiency and distributed renewable energy

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Dadakis, Jacquelyn (Jacquelyn MacKenzie)
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Picking up the Property Assessed Clean Energy
New tool for financing energy efficiency and distributed renewable energy
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Karl Seidman.
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Abstract
This thesis describes the potential of new legislation in Louisiana to provide municipal financing for energy efficient building retrofits and distributed renewable energy. First, the thesis identifies how energy efficiency loan funds should be structured so as to access public debt markets. Second, it reviews current best practices in the field of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds. Then it discusses the current energy efficiency and renewable energy market in New Orleans, LA. Finally, the thesis discusses the policy and market changes necessary to implement LA Senate Bill 224 authorizing PACE districts in Louisiana.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.
 
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-118).
 
Date issued
2010
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59719
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Urban Studies and Planning.
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