She stated that SEWA's training targeted 1.5 million women for programs in green technology including solar energy and cook stoves.

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But we were actually able to get clients in Massachusetts without even having an office there, without having any kind of physical presence there, just by blogging about the Massachusetts state programs and what was going on there in terms of solar energy.

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SolarCity also hopes to help eliminate the up front cost of retrofits to homeowners the way it does with solar by tapping into the growing number of so-called Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, financing programs.

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