2022 Building Energy Efficiency Standards
California Energy Commission
The Dark Side of the Sun
How PACE Financing has Under-delivered Green Benefits and Harmed Low-Income Homeowners
This report identifies two serious flaws in PACE residential program design that reduce
the program’s environmental benefit; create economic risk for low-income participants; and
facilitate outright contractor fraud… (more)
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)
Overview: Many in California believed that Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing would bring California homeowners into a green-energy future through its novel use of the secured property tax assessments to pay for clean energy upgrades, but this financing product has not lived up to its promises… (more)
PACE loans are offered through private contractors but are secured by a property tax lien and are collected through the tax bill.
Art of Solar 