Lew Milford

Resilience for Free: How Solar+Storage Could Protect Multifamily Affordable Housing from Power Outages at Little or No Net Cost

This report concludes that with the right market structures and incentives, solar+storage systems can provide a positive economic return on par with energy efficiency or stand-alone solar.

What Cities Should Do: A Guide to Resilient Power Planning

This paper offers a series of guidelines and best practices for cities and towns to protect critical facilities with smarter resilient power solutions.

Solar+Storage 101: An Introductory Guide to Resilient Solar Power Systems

“Solar + Storage 101: An Introductory Guide to Resilient Solar Power Systems” provides a basic overview of a versatile and increasingly affordable resilient power technology.

Up in the Air: What the Northeast States Should Do Together on Offshore Wind, Before It’s Too Late

This report recommends a multi-state collaboration on offshore wind to create stronger and consistent regional policies, financing actions, and permitting across the Northeast states.

Distributed Energy Storage: A Case for National and International Collaboration

In this concept note, Clean Energy Group proposes the creation of national and international networks around the next generation of clean energy innovation: combining energy storage with small-scale clean energy generation at the customer level.

Resilient Power: Evolution of a New Clean Energy Strategy to Meet Severe Weather Threats

This paper outlines the dangers that power outages can pose to our most vulnerable populations, the failures of traditional backup power sources, and the opportunities to develop distributed energy systems with clean and dependable energy technologies.

CE+BFI Releases Financing Model Document on Qualified 501(c)(3) Bonds

CE+BFI examines Qualified 501(c)(3) bonds as a mechanism for communities with 501(c)(3) organizations seeking to undertake significant clean energy projects.

Clean Energy Finance through the Bond Market: A New Option for Progress

Clean Energy Group, the Brookings Institution and the Council of Development Finance Agencies have just released a new paper on a powerful but underutilized tool for future clean energy investment: state and local bond finance.

Clean Energy for Resilient Communities: Expanding Solar Generation in Baltimore’s Low-Income Neighborhoods

In the first blueprint of how a city could become more “power resilient,” this report shows how Baltimore and other cities could use clean energy to create a more reliable electric system that protects vulnerable citizens during power blackouts.

Anatomy of the Deal – NYSERDA Energy Efficiency Bonds

NYSERDA recently issued bonds through a highly innovative structure to finance and refinance loans under the Green Jobs-Green New York program. This bond issuance marks a monumental accomplishment for the clean energy and bond finance industries.