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Financing Products Descriptions Recently, HB&C produced a clean energy financing gap analysis for the State of Colorado, (more on that in an upcoming blog post, but it can be downloaded here: Colorado Clean Energy Finance Gap Analysis).  Part of that analysis required clearly defining the financial instruments that HB&C considers to be commonly used forRead more

Having been in this business long enough at this point, an interesting pattern emerged that just didn’t quite make sense to me: Energy Services Companies (ESCO’s) seem work almost exclusively in the Municipal, University, Schools and Hospitals (MUSH) market, and don’t really seem to touch on similar buildings in the commercial sector.  Why would this be? WhatRead more

While HB&C’s primary focus is moving capital to clean energy projects, we frequently encounter a related and more fundamental challenge, lack of projects.   In the non-residential sector OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), ESCos, contractors and utilities have been very successful serving the MUSH  (municipal, universities, schools and hospitals) market with performance contracting but less soRead more

HB&C recently completed work on the Program Guide for Colorado’s new commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program.  This guide represents something close to the culmination of a year-long effort to launch commercial PACE in Colorado.  HB&C is excited at the near-term prospect of the PACE launch, and feels that the program we have designed,Read more

In 1883, Warren Johnson, a school teacher from Milwaukee and soon to be founder of Johnson Controls, invented the thermostat.  It was a simple device that responded to falling temperature by activating a light in the boiler room, indicating when janitors should shovel more coal into the furnace. Thus building controls and automation were born.Read more