ESPC financing

EE Financing: Energy Savings Performance Contracts

How Energy Savings Performance Contracts can pay for your client’s energy efficiency upgrades As part of our Energy Efficiency Loan Program, we’re exploring 8 ways businesses, nonprofits, and local governments can pay for energy efficiency improvement projects. In this article, we’re discussing how to use Energy Savings Performance Contracts to pay for energy upgrades. Energy

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Energy success story: 3102 West End Condominium Owners Association (Johnny Epstein, president)

Success Story: 3102 West End Circle Condominium Owners’ Association

HOA sees big ROI from energy upgrades After more than a million dollars of flood damage from frozen pipes in the winters of 2014 and 2016, the homeowners’ association at Nashville’s Artie Lee + Ruby May Condos faced soaring insurance premiums and growing repair bills. After hearing about the temperature control issues in the two

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Municipal Leasing: EE Project Financing

EE Financing: Municipal Leasing

How governmental entities can lease energy efficient equipment to make upgrades In our energy project financing series, we last covered Commercial Leasing as a way for private companies and nonprofits to fund energy efficiency projects. This article will cover Municipal Leasing, or energy efficient equipment leasing for local governments. Municipal leasing is a common mechanism used

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Using commercial leasing to pay for energy efficiency upgrades

EE Financing: Commercial Leasing

Leasing commercial equipment to pay for energy upgrades for your business or nonprofit In this blog series, we’re giving an overview of different ways you or your clients can pay for energy efficient upgrades to businesses, nonprofits, or governmental entities. So far we’ve covered using the operating budget and commercial loans. This article is an

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USing your budget to fund an energy efficiency project

EE Financing: Budget (or “self-pay”)

Using your operating budget to fund energy upgrades for your business or nonprofit If you’re researching energy efficiency upgrades for your business or nonprofit, chances are your first question is “how are we going to pay for it?” As a nonprofit lender, education is a critical part of our mission, so we’ve launched this EE

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Energy Success Story: Albahealth

Success Story: Albahealth

Rural manufacturer finds ‘sew’ many savings with energy efficiency upgrades Located in rural Rockwood, Tennessee, Albahealth is the largest manufacturer of “patient safety footwear” in the world. While those thick socks with the rubber pattern on the sole is their main product, they knit and dye a variety of disposable medical apparel, including compression sleeves

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Commercial Loans to finance energy upgrade

EE Financing: Commercial Loans

Using a commercial loan to fund energy upgrades for your business or nonprofit When it comes to installing energy efficient or renewable energy upgrades in a business, nonprofit, or governmental entity, the first question is inevitably “how are we going to pay for it?” Education is a critical part of our mission here at Pathway

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Energy Project Financing Options: Overview

Financing Options for Energy Improvement Projects

New Blog Series: Energy Efficiency Project Financing Options for Businesses, Nonprofits, and Local Governments If you’ve read through our Energy Efficiency Loan Program page, you already know that Pathway Lending’s EE Loan program is tough to beat. Thanks to a program partnership with the State of Tennessee and Tennessee Valley Authority, we’re able to offer

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Crown College Energy Efficiency Project Success Story

Success Story: Crown College

Advancing a mission of stewardship by investing in energy efficiency The Crown College of the Bible is a private, nonprofit Christian college located in East Tennessee. Since opening its doors in 1991, the college has grown to an enrollment of more than 800 students in various fields of study through in their School of Ministry,

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REAP Grant Deadline

Apply for USDA REAP Energy Grant by March 31

Guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses The next application deadline for Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants is Friday, March 31, 2017. This program provides loan financing and grant funding to rural small businesses and agricultural producers to install or purchase renewable energy systems and make energy

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