In early 2025, New Jersey will join 34 other states with an active Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program. Nationwide, C-PACE programs have already driven $9 billion in private investment, generated over $15 billion in economic development, and created Read More …
In the last post, we described the essential features of the program as laid out in the legislation. The next section addresses “Local C-PACE program[s].” This is somewhat ambiguous because all NJ C-PACE programs require a local ordinance; but in Read More …
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has published the preliminary guidelines for the Garden State C-PACE program (here), covering retrofits to existing buildings. RSVP for the Informational Webinar on Friday, April 14 at 10 am here.
New Jersey is about to experience a surge of new clean energy projects, unleashing a considerable amount of additional private financing for energy efficiency and renewables. Amendments to NJ’s existing PACE law are being passed in the NJ Legislature this Read More …
The Hill, a web site covering Congress, politics, political campaigns and Capitol Hill, recently posted an opinion piece titled “Congress should let local communities set their own PACE,” written by Mayor Jeri Muoio Ph.D. (D), of West Palm Beach, Florida. and Mayor Rex Parris Read More …
In the wake of Governor Christie’s conditional veto of A2579/S1510, the action we’re taking is to initiate a coalition of key players to: (a) resolve any issues standing in the way of a new, comprehensive, and workable bill — acceptable Read More …
More than 140 people attended today’s webinar. We’ll post a link to the recording shortly. PACE, which stands for Property Assessed Clean Energy, represents a multi-billion dollar opportunity for New Jersey. New Jersey already has PACE legislation, but with deficiencies Read More …
The following is the text of a public statement being distributed by NJPACE at this week’s NJ State League of Municipalities Convention in Atlantic City. You can download the PDF here. For the past three years, New Jersey PACE, a Read More …
As you may have read, the Governor issued a Conditional Veto of the PACE bill (A2579) on Nov. 9, limiting the program to a “pilot” with a maximum of ten towns, and excluding any town that has received Transitional Aid or other Read More …
Further to a broad email campaign by various nonprofit organizations, several key industry leaders have called or written to the Governor, asking him to sign the PACE bill (A2579/S1510), which has been on his desk since June 25. Here’s one Read More …