ROCKVILLE, MD–Montgomery County Green Bank, a publicly-chartered nonprofit and the nation's first county-level green bank, has partnered with Revere Bank and Ascentium Capital LLC to offer a new lending program called the Commercial Loan for Energy Efficiency and Renewables (CLEER).
The program is aimed at office, retail, light industrial and multifamily rental properties in Montgomery County whose owners want to make clean energy or energy efficiency upgrades that are not covered by existing programs.
This is how the program works:
- Montgomery County Green Bank lists eligible contractors.
- Businesses use these contractors to define eligible scopes of work, such as solar PV, or energy storage.
- Revere Bank and Ascentium Capital provide loans to businesses to finance the scopes of work.
- The borrowing businesses are considered approved based on credit with loan terms set to match the expected energy savings.
CLEER, which works with similar offering from Pepco, has been funded with proceeds from the merger of Exelon Corp. and Pepco Holdings.
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Erika Morphy
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