Real Momentum Building for PACE in New Jersey

New Jersey is on the edge of a(nother) clean energy revolution.

PACE is a revolutionary new way of financing both energy conservation and renewables. Over the past two years we’ve educated and informed more than twenty municipalities, and several counties, about the opportunity that PACE presents, in terms of economic development and jobs, energy cost savings, and a cleaner energy future. We’ve had extensive discussions with the NJ Board of Public Utilities and the Clean Energy Program; we’ve spoken to dozens of contractors and installers, and we’ve met extensively with bankers, investors, and law firms. We’ve built an independent, low-cost, nonprofit platform, with a remarkable team of executives, advisors, interns, and volunteers.

As a result, the State of New Jersey is now establishing its process for reviewing applications from municipalities and county improvement authorities interested in creating local PACE programs. Here at New Jersey PACE we can assist any local government in establishing an effective and open program, and meeting the criteria established by Trenton for approving a local program.

 

The momentum for PACE has now reached a tipping point, and the first programs will be up and running by this fall. So we’re opening up our doors to accept contractor registrations, project pre-applications, inquiries from municipalities and county improvement authorities, and additional capital providers. We already have more than a dozen companies in our NJPACE Alliance, and we’re fielding calls about projects two or three times a week. We have commitments from interested national funders, and we’re exploring local financing options as well. And we have an agreement with Noveda Technologies to provide world class energy performance monitoring and verification for virtually all NJPACE projects.So we’re ready to go full speed ahead. And so are our partners. After falling behind during recent years, New Jersey is on the edge of another clean energy revolution. We’re proud to be at the forefront of it.

PACE Gives Property Owners Every Reason to Do the Right Thing (Photo of 290 Pratt St., Meridian, CT, an 1884 building undergoing a nearly $2 m. C-PACE Energy Efficiency project that will create $140,000 a year in energy savings.)

New Jersey PACE Alliance Seeks Solar Installers, Energy Services Contractors, Capital Providers, Municipalities, County Improvement Authorities, and Property Owners.

PACE Gives Property Owners Every Reason to the Do the Right Thing

By providing 100%, off-balance-sheet, nonrecourse financing, secured through a special assessment, PACE removes most if not all of the obstacles to getting property owners to “do the right thing,” i.e., reduce their carbon footprint, conserve energy, switch to renewable sources, and save money. Download a white paper on Creating Measurable Value with PACE. And stay tuned for our upcoming crowdfunding project. 

Supporting the New Jersey PACE Program

There is still time to become a Founding Sponsor. New Jersey PACE is a largely self-supported 501c3 nonprofit effort to establish local PACE programs across the state. Every dollar invested in the program will leverage many times that in clean energy investments in New Jersey. Assisting the development of New Jersey PACE acts as a “force multiplier” to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.

Support can come from corporate sponsorships, government programs, foundation grants, and individual donations. This support can be monetary or non-monetary (“in kind”). What’s important is that this support is capable of generating a return many times greater than the original contribution — acting as the spark that ignites the blaze, or as the lever that, positioned at the right pivot point, moves the whole world.

To become a Founding Sponsor, contact:

Victoria Zelin, Director of Development

vzelin@newjerseypace.org

908-507-3150

NJPACE Alliance Seeks Contractors, Capital Providers, Municipalities, County Improvement Authorities, Property Owners — and Clean Energy Projects If you’re a solar installer, or an energy services contractor, you can register at NewJerseyPACE.org, create an Alliance entry that showcases your work, and submit a Project Pre-Application. If you’re a potential Capital Provider, please fill out our short Capital Provider Survey. If you’re a county or municipal official, please see our services for communities here. And if you’re a commercial, industrial, institutional/nonprofit, or multifamily property owner, please look at what we provide for Property Owners. We’re lining up projects, towns, and financing sources now, in anticipation of launching municipal programs this fall. Stay on top of what’s happening at NewJerseyPACE.org.

BREAKING NEWS — New Jersey is now inviting applications from interested municipalities and county improvement authorities. According to our agency contact, “Once we receive a request from a governmental entity, be it a municipality or a county improvement authority, which are the only authorized governmental units that can issue PACE at the present time, we will issue an application to them.  Once we receive it back we will examine it and determine if it answers our questions sufficiently meet the requirements that we must be satisfied that the residents’ and taxpayers’ financial interests are fully protected by the program.”New Jersey PACE, a NJ-based 501c3 nonprofit, is ready to assist your municipality or county improvement authority in creating a local PACE program that meets these requirements, at no cost to taxpayers and tailored to your needs. Please contact Jonathan Cloud at 908-581-8418 or jcloud@newjerseypace.org for more information.