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"Feed-Out" Funding Program For Sustainable Energy
Demeter Power Group was honored to attend the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative Summit. Watch the video of Demeter Power President, Michael Wallander, explaining the company's commitment to fund solar-powered carports with electric vehicle car charging stations. Read more
Solar-Powered Carports Get a Big Financing Boost from Clinton Initiative
Property assessed clean energy (PACE) solar financing has gone supernova. In fact, it’s caught the attention of a certain well-connected president. Read more
Pssst, Wanna Buy A Free Solar Powered Carport?
Demeter has just teamed up with the Clinton Global Initiative’s US branch to offer a first-of-its kind “game changing” deal that essentially results in a free solar carport. Read more
Clinton Global Initiative launches “Feed-Out” solar funding initiative
The Clinton Global Initiative America, along with Demeter Power Group, have rolled out the first market-based, set-cost funding initiative for PV and renewable technologies. Read more
PACENow Interview
PACENow’s Kristina Klimovich talks with Mike Wallander, Founder and President of Demeter Power and Co-founder of EcoCity Partners. Read more
Demeter Power Group Joins The Alliance for Solar Choice
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May X, 2014 – The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) today announced the addition of Demeter Power as a member company. TASC is leading the solar industry’s defense against attacks from monopoly utilities who want to stop competition. Read more
Connecticut’s Green Bank Uses PACE to Accelerate Commercial Solar, California Expected to Follow
Up to now, the most popular and cost effective forms of financing solar projects have been leases and Power Purchase Agreements (‘PPAs’), which allow homeowners to install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on their property and purchase power from the system’s output via a financial arrangement with a third-party developer who owns, operates, and maintains the solar panels. Read more
Bringing Smaller-Scale Commercial Solar to Market
By transferring a portion of a commercial building’s electricity expenses to its property tax bill, Demeter Power is paving the way for an expansion of distributed solar generation in small- to medium-sized commercial buildings.
Demeter Power, a provider of financing solutions for commercial distributed generation, has been awarded $500,000 through the Dep... Read more
Sun Shot Initiative
Fifty-eight startup companies have received a total of 71 awards to participate in the SunShot Incubator program since it began in 2007. These DOE solar projects are accelerating technological innovation for... Read more
The New Publicly Funded Solar Projects You Should Care About
By Ucilia Wang
The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced a slew of projects that will collectively receive about $60 million and work on making solar electricity more affordable.
The projects range from engineering new solar cells to figuring out a more efficient way to market, install and monitor a solar energy projects. The funding also will target efforts to help utilities manag... Read more