Energy management firms have struggled to find financing for energy-efficiency contracts as credit conditions remain less-than-ideal.

FORBES: Energy Services Sector Sustained by "MUSH" Markets

With on-bill repayment, commercial property owners in California can tap third-party financing to pay for energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades and repay the loans via monthly electricity bills.

FORBES: California Approves Program Eliminating Upfront Cost Of Energy Upgrades

As Dan Schaefer and Dennis Hunter of Ygrene Energy told me for a post I published in April on the launch of a commercial PACE program in greater Miami, billions of dollars of unfunded energy efficiency projects are waiting for financing nationwide.

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The meeting will address the vision, strategy and analytical framework for growth and efficiency of green initiatives and the international agenda around the following initiatives: Power system transformation, energy efficiency in industry, global water demand issues, bio-refining, trade, aviation and financing.

FORBES: Setting The Agenda For Global Green Growth Forum 2012

He is an acknowledged expert in the area of federal infrastructure budgeting and finance, having had an active role in the financing of each of the last three comprehensive surface transportation reauthorization bills dating back to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

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