A new report by Clean Energy Group proposes bundling loans for resilient power projects, such as solar PV with battery storage, to get this clean energy market to scale. The report shows how to use an old finance tool, a warehouse credit facility, to assemble portfolios of loans for resilient power projects, which will protect vulnerable populations from power outages during severe weather events. This report, Ramp Up Resilient Power Finance: Bundle Project Loans Through a Warehouse Facility to Achieve Scale, explores using this proven loan bundling approach to finance resilient power projects across the country, to move from financing of single projects to financing of many projects in a loan portfolio. The warehouse credit facility model has been used for other commercial and consumer loan obligations, such as mortgage lending, for decades. But it has not yet been used for these kind of clean energy infrastructure projects. This paper explains how this finance tool can be used develo... Read the Full Post »