Show Me the Money: Energy Efficiency Financing Barriers and Opportunities

A new paper by Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the Environmental Defense Fund explores how organizations can overcome the challenges to energy efficiency financing. This paper briefly characterizes energy efficiency market sectors; describes the major players in the energy efficiency financing market; describes the key barriers facing each market sector; reviews primary internal and external financing strategies used by each market sector; summarizes our investor discussions; and offers conclusions and recommendations for catalyzing large-scale deployment of capital to the energy efficiency sector.

Author(s): Namrita Kapur, Jake Hiller, Alan Abramson, Robin Langdon

Published: July 2011

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