As the C-PACE financing leader for development projects, PACE Equity has unmatched experience and unparalleled expertise to optimize your funding amount and move you seamlessly and simply through the financing process. PACE stands for Property Assessed Clean Energy and denotes a legislation that states and municipalities use to encourage sustainable building practices. We believe in working locally and building long-term relationships.
Get even lower funding rates when your project meets our exclusive specification, developed in partnership with the New Buildings Institute. To maximize your property value and lower your carbon footprint, take advantage of our PACE Equity Sustainability Fund with even higher returns when you meet low carbon design criteria.
We even offer engineering design assistance to help you reach the goal. In certain states, retroactive refinancing is available for projects completed within the last 2 years. This is an excellent way to:. You can take advantage of prior improvements which impact utility spend HVAC, lighting, windows, etc. Our engineers analyze your building improvements and then calculate the maximum amortization starting from when the improvements were installed. Your funding amount is based on this retroactive energy savings.
No upfront costs are required. The project will be cash flow positive from beginning to end. In fact, under Michigan's PACE law, this savings to investment ratio must be positive on day one as a condition of project approval. Allows municipalities to encourage energy efficiency and renewable energy without putting general funds at risk. Taps into large sources of private capital.
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Commercial PACE. Working Group. PACE first arose due to a gap in the financial services market as banks and other lenders did not make credit specifically available for energy efficiency retrofits, renewable energy and other conservation and sustainability improvements.
Numerous studies have shown the economic sense and environmental benefits of improving commercial and residential properties to use renewable energy sources, to be energy efficient, to save water and to be more resilient and sustainable.
See the U. Prior to PACE programs, credit was not available based on current banking practices to many homeowners and small and medium-sized businesses or the credit was too short-term to make financial sense. A short-term loan usually resulted in debt service that would exceed the utility cost savings. The corresponding negative cash flow was a problem for both property owners and the lenders.
Property owners could only start to realize the economic benefits of energy efficiency retrofits after the loan had been fully repaid. Under these circumstances, there were very little improvements being made to the existing building stock. PACE solves this issue by providing long term, fixed-rate credit, allowing the cost savings to equal or exceed the debt service.
In order to attract sufficient capital, PACE has been designed as an assessment on the real property that is on parity with other real estate taxes. There has been broad support for energy-saving technologies in Congress, state legislatures, and the media. PACE makes these technologies affordable and available to businesses and homeowners. FPFA is an interlocal agreement created and established as a separate legal entity, public body and unit of government, pursuant to Section
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