{"id":1004133974,"date":"2015-12-21T06:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004133974"},"modified":"2022-12-08T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:12:26","slug":"pace-harvests-clean-energy-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/pace-harvests-clean-energy-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"PACE Harvests Clean Energy in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Anca Gagiuc, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

PACE, the Property Assessed Clean Energy<\/a> program, has been adopted by Texas\u2019 largest city as a citywide private clean energy finance program. Through PACE Houston building owners engage in water and energy efficiency improvements through private financing, without the steep upfront costs.<\/p>\n

Texas responds vividly to this clean energy finance tool\u2014Houston is not the first city in the Lone Star State to embrace PACE. Austin\u2019s Travis County adopted the program in March and a Dallas city ordinance is on the horizon. Furthermore, Cameron and Willacy Counties aim to bring PACE to the Rio Grande Valley in January.<\/p>\n

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To make the process as simple as possible, Houston deployed the Pace in a Box toolkit enclosing all of the design elements, documents, and implementation steps necessary for a local government to establish a PACE program fast, economically, and in a uniform way. The energy and water efficiency improvement in Texas are wholly financed by private capital, thus PACE programs that use the toolkit throughout the state, do not require taxpayer funding, instead enable large amount of private money to flow into facility upgrades. There are nine lenders involved in the program, including a Texas bank, prepared with hundreds of millions of dollars available for Texas PACE projects. Furthermore, PACE allows property owners to choose their lenders.<\/p>\n

Behind the Houston development is Laura Spanjian, Mayor Parker\u2019s director of sustainability. Her team included Houston\u2019s Energy Efficiency in Buildings<\/a>,\u00a0Keeping PACE in Texas<\/a>, the\u00a0Texas PACE Authority<\/a>, and key city staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Houston adopted a citywide Property Assessed Clean Energy program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":1004133979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1589,21752,21742,21744,21786],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004133974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-houston","category-mixed-use","category-latest","category-people","category-sustainability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPACE Harvests Clean Energy in Texas - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/pace-harvests-clean-energy-in-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PACE Harvests Clean Energy in Texas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Houston adopted a citywide Property Assessed Clean Energy program.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/pace-harvests-clean-energy-in-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-21T14:53:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-08T21:12:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/12\/LauraSpanjian.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"599\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anca Gagiuc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/pace-harvests-clean-energy-in-texas\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/pace-harvests-clean-energy-in-texas\/\",\"name\":\"PACE Harvests Clean Energy in Texas - 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