Efficiency First

THIS MONDAY, July 12 – Reach New Customers: Online Strategies for Home Performance Companies When: Monday, July 12, 2010, 12 noon Eastern time / 9 am Pacific time Description: Social media services like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are all the rage, but home efficiency professionals are right to question how much marketing time should be [...]

Tuesday, July 13, 1:00 to ~ 2:00 pm, EDT As Congress approaches the August recess and the beginning of the 2010 mid-term election season a number of pieces of legislation will be considered that could be critical to businesses in the clean energy sector. These include jobs bills intended to provide these industries a short-term [...]

Efficiency First is proud to have the help of three summer interns. Gaby has been assisting us with research projects in the area of: Finance & Incentives, Labor Relations, Historic Preservation, case studies on utility programs. My name is Gabriela Geyer and I am a Senior at San Francisco State University majoring in Liberal Studies [...]

Discouraging news on the status of PACE financing began to leak out of Washington this holiday weekend with reports that the Obama administration has failed to persuade the Federal Housing Finance Agency to allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to accept mortgages on properties with PACE liens attached. Late Friday, PACE financing pioneer Cisco DeVries of [...]

Ongoing uncertainty about the status of PACE financing programs in the face of warnings from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about property-assessed energy improvements is the subject of an article in today’s New York Times, which describes a “ripple effect” on home and business owners in areas where PACE lending has been approved. The controversy [...]