Solar Sonoma County Pushes Consortium Sustainability Financing District

 

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: sustainability financing districts are THE most innovative green finance solution out there. The whole AB811 snowball just keeps getting bigger.

Case in point: Solar Sonoma County’s creation of a solar financing program for all Sonoma County residents and businesses.  When the city of Sebastopol tried to create its own sustainability financing district, it was too small. Their upstart solution?  Put together a consortium of cities and groups to achieve the scale needed and create a county wide solar financing program. The creation of this program is still in the works, however the article documents the fact that they are gaining the most desired quality in today’s shaky capital markets: t-r-a-c-t-i-o-n!

We know from our own work that Sonoma County touts itself as America’s greenest county. Nearly every major city there has enacted green building ordinances in one form or another.

Our suggestion: They should change their name to “Smart Solar Sonoma County”.