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PACE Programs are Stepping Up the Pace

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While Sonoma County was an early innovator, Connecticut has a widely admired statewide PACE program that is up and running. Early programs were financed with a pooled revenue bond or for large projects a standalone bond, but today private lenders have entered the open market.

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PACE Bill Due in Baltimore City

Green Building Law Update

While Sonoma County was an early innovator, Connecticut has a widely admired statewide green bank program that is up and running and it is the model for Maryland. Baltimore is proposing to allow the PACE financing of any equipment, device or material intended to improve energy efficiency, including in new construction (e.g.,

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State by State Incentives Guide

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CAPCO financing, an alternative to conventional bank financing, can accommodate a slightly higher risk profile and provide a more flexible structure for growing businesses. Many small businesses that are not able to receive traditional bank financing can get support through CEF. CONNECTICUT – updated for 2014.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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Here are just a few examples that illustrate how 21st-century renewable energy initiatives are transforming what was a 20th-century steel hub: on the banks of the Buffalo River, one of the largest solar panel factories in the U.S. The debt-free, state-of-the-art AnC Bio facility will take about 18 months to build.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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CAPCO financing, an alternative to conventional bank financing, can accommodate a slightly higher risk profile and provide a more flexible structure for growing businesses. The COMMERCIAL FISHING AND AGRICULTURE BANK provides loans to fishing, tourism, natural resources and agriculture-based projects. The program ends December 2016.

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