Efficiency First

The current issue of Home Energy magazine features an article by Efficiency First board member Doug Donovan and Jared Asch, the association’s national director, summarizing a number of alternative financing options now that the Federal Housing Finance Agency has forced most of the nation’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing programs to suspend operations. The article singles out unsecured private-capital lending programs, the Federal Housing Administration’s Energy Efficient Mortgage program, on-bill financing programs and utility-based demand-side management programs as viable alternatives to PACE lending. Read the full article online at www.homeenergy.org/article_full.php?id=742.

Home Energy magazine is a leading source of practical information about residential energy efficiency, performance, comfort and affordability, published six times a year by the California-based nonprofit Energy Auditor & Retrofitter, Inc. A $20 discount off the normal subscription rates is available to all Efficiency First members (discount code available for registered members on the “Your Membership Benefits” page of the Efficiency First Web site).