Category: Commercial PACE

Regenerative Community Development Initiatives for the Greater Rochester Region

Bouncing Forward

  The opportunity, as we come out of the pandemic[1], is to reimagine our future and build forward to address the immediate challenges and create a better future. It’s not about “Building Back Better” but about “Building Forward Better.” To the extent that we fail to recognize this, the crises we face—of climate change, biodiversity…
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Harnessing Private Capital to Bring Clean Energy to Rochester’s Commercial Buildings

  Our Possible Rochester initiative has taken another major step forward, with the launch of our community-oriented site, PossibleRochester.org. Our business-oriented site, PossibleRochester.com, which focuses on C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) as a financing mechanism for upgrading commercial properties to clean energy, has been operating since February when the city announced the launch of…
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PossibleRochester.com Launched to Support Local C-PACE Program

(Image credit: Veer Mudambi, Rate It Green) We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new initiative to support the introduction of C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) in the City of Rochester. As part of this, we are seeking to conduct a national demonstration project for what we call Community PACE and, at the…
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C-PACE Comes to Town

  At Possible Planet, we’ve been working on Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) for nearly a decade, so we were delighted to find out that the City of Rochester had approved it last year. The program actually launched in February of 2021, with an announcement by Mayor Lovely Warren and the posting of a…
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The Race for PACE

A Race to Make a Difference It’s important that key local partners—municipal and county economic development officers, business associations, local nonprofits, and community leaders—be aligned and coordinated in communicating the message. One way to do this is the idea of a “Race for PACE.” This could be a virtual or physical event, as well as…
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