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California launches pilot program to finance multifamily retrofits for energy efficiency

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California launches pilot program to finance multifamily retrofits for energy efficiency

The state is working with HUD and the MacArthur Foundation.


By John Caulfield, Senior Editor | February 17, 2015
California launches pilot program to finance multifamily retrofits for energy efficiency

HUD has also committed to support California’s creation of another pilot financing program for multifamily building, where most or all of the energy use is billed through a common meter. Photo: Almonroth via Wikimedia Commons

The Obama Administration and the state of California are teaming with the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation on a pilot program whose goal is to unlock Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing for multifamily housing.

PACE programs provide money to accelerate renewable energy and efficiency retrofits for energy and water in multifamily housing, with the intention of making that housing more affordable for low-income renters.

California Gov. Jerry Brown announced last month that his administration is creating a California Multifamily PACE program with MacArthur, which has committed at least $10 million in impact investments toward this program and other innovations it is exploring. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro says his department will issue new guidance under which HUD can approve PACE financing on HUD-assisted and HUD insured housing in California. The U.S. Department of Energy is working with the state to assess the performance of this program.

The San Jose Mercury News reports that HUD has also committed to support California’s creation of another pilot financing program for multifamily building, where most or all of the energy use is billed through a common meter.

California’s efforts tie into the Obama Administration’s goal of installing 100 megawatts of renewable energy across federally subsidized housing by 2020. About one-quarter of U.S. households are multifamily, with more than 3 million units in California alone.

Improving energy efficiency in these buildings nationwide by 20% would save nearly $7 billion in energy costs each year and cut 350 tons of carbon pollution in a decade, according to White House estimates.

“Reducing our energy consumption by 50 percent on existing buildings, increasing renewables 50 percent and reducing our petroleum as close to 50 percent as we can,” Brown said about his initiative.

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