These new ventures will no doubt challenge the traditional four-year residential, physical university model.

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Today, several companies offer a new model of residential solar installation that finally overcomes all of these hurdles.

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Copying a successful Australian model, Trinidad is setting up a residential cricket academy, to sharpen the skills of promising young players.

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In fact, they have worked so well that regulators and utilities are trying to move the model from the industrial sector into the commercial and residential sectors.

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According to Ygrene Energy Fund CEO Stacey Lawson, Clean Energy Sacramento is the first privately funded clean energy financing model in the nation that includes both commercial and residential properties.

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The Consensus Capital Property model involves securing properties, changing use and converting to residential development before leasing to UK housing associations for up to 20 years on full repair and insurance leases.

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The most recent FERC survey data suggests that this industrial model is stunningly ineffective at reducing peak demand in the commercial and residential sectors.

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