Webinar: Financing Approaches for Getting to Zero Schools

The Webinar: Financing Approaches for Getting to Zero Schools will take place on January 9th, 2020 online.  The path to zero energy school construction can be a daunting one.  Some issues may seem overwhelming such as, how do you pay for it?  Financing renewable energy solutions and energy storage can be the key to a project’s economic viability and achieving the zero energy goal.  In this one-hour webinar, hear how energy managers, sustainability professionals, energy consultants, and solar-plus-storage providers assessed various financing options from financiers.  Financial instruments considered include tax-exempt leases, sale-leaseback, partnership-flip, and cash purchase scenarios.  Attendees will learn about cost effective methods to improve energy efficiency, cost-saving methods to procure renewable energy and evaluating life cycle costs in buildings.

1. Participants will understand how the addition of energy storage to a solar project impacts energy savings, long-term project value and financing decisions
2. Participants will understand key issues when evaluating financing options for solar-plus-storage installations including tax-exempt leases, sale-leaseback, partnership-flip, and cash purchase.
3. Participants will learn about cost effective methods to improve energy efficiency, cost-saving methods to procure renewable energy and evaluating life cycle costs in buildings.
4. Participants will learn about the ‘state of the shelf’ technology concepts being implemented to delivering cost-effective energy efficiency in school retrofits.