Renovate America, a leading provider of residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, announced that it has raised $50 million in growth equity from new and existing investors. Renovate America partners with local municipalities to provide the Home Energy Renovation Opportunity (HERO) financing program.

EnerNOC Inc., a provider of energy intelligence software, announced that three of its customers have each won Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards from the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference.

TPG Special Situations Partners (TSSP), the credit arm of TPG, and SMi-Enerpro, a division of The SM Group Inc., have announced the launch of a new joint venture to provide financing for the SMi-Enerpro energy efficiency platform.

In a written statement, New Era said it wants a satisfactory response from the EPA by early June or litigation will be initiated.

Commercial buildings, in particular, consume large amounts of energy related to HVAC, water heating, lighting, and other building systems. Efforts to reduce energy consumption have led to increasing deployments of energy efficiency retrofits for commercial and public buildings.

Administrators at Willoughby-Eastlake School District in Willoughby, Ohio, an eastern suburb of Cleveland, recently took a high-performance building approach to district-wide upgrades that generated substantial energy savings. 

Despite budget constraints, mayors in the United States expect to significantly expand their investment in energy technologies over the next five years, according to a new survey highlighting how cities are deploying new energy technologies to make their city operations and communities more energy efficient.

Easy to slip on, Baseboarders® baseboard heater covers are available in a tall profile to suit taller high-output hydronic heaters, and in a sleek new style, the company said.