North Bay Business Journal

  • Santa Rosa-based Ygrene leads $650 million green-retrofit effort

    September 23rd, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Five years ago, co-founders of Santa Rosa-based Ygrene Energy Fund were trying to drum up local support for an innovative large-scale financing program to encourage real estate owners to embark upon energy-saving retrofit and renewable-power projects. And today Ygrene is leading a nationwide commercial property retrofit endeavor backed by a billionaire, a large investment bank, a high-tech manufacturer and two reinsurers and targeting $650 million in initial Sacramento- and Miami-area projects.

  • Energy program sets debt limit for home improvements

    March 8th, 2010

    SONOMA COUNTY – The Sonoma County Energy Independence Program has set a new ceiling on how much debt homeowners can hold when they seek to participate in the energy-improvement loan program.

  • $10.75 million for energy upgrades

    February 17th, 2010

    OAKLAND — Retrofit Bay Area, a retrofit program led by the Association of Bay Area Governments, was awarded $10.75 million for region-wide residential building energy retrofits from the California Energy Commission.

  • 2009 year of economy, energy

    January 4th, 2010

    It was a year dominated by a struggling economy that touched virtually everyone.

  • Sonoma County energy program getting attention in Washington, D.C.

    December 21st, 2009

    SONOMA COUNTY — Across the country, states are rushing to pass AB 811 energy-efficiency programs, buoyed by numbers coming out of California and particularly Sonoma County, the first to adapt AB 811 on a county-wide basis.

  • Study: Energy program could be jobs booster

    December 14th, 2009

    A Sonoma County program allowing for energy-efficient upgrades to buildings has already begun to create much needed contracting jobs, and according to a recent outlook report could create thousands more.

  • County looks to next fall for energy retrofit loan program

    November 23rd, 2009

    NAPA – Napa County homeowners who have been asking local planning officials when they can use innovative property-tax-bill-based financing for energy-efficiency projects similar to the program started in Sonoma County earlier this year likely will have to wait until next fall for the opportunity. County of Napa government officials are exploring options for extending such [...]

  • $21.5M in energy loan applications

    October 5th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – Cary Buxton, an estimator for Second Generation Roofing in Santa Rosa, has already seen the impact of the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program on his business.

  • Tax rebates take bite out of solar costs

    October 5th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – Solar providers continue to proliferate, and incentives and funding models abound.

  • Registration closes this week for conference covering new green regulations, resources for energy-efficient projects

    September 28th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – Registration for the Business Journal’s second-annual Going Green Conference closes this Friday, Oct. 2. The event will be Oct. 8 at the Doubletree Hotel in Rohnert Park. Two panel discussions will look at how new regulations and policy changes are impacting the construction and management of commercial buildings what resources are available to help prepare for compliance.

  • $14 million in requests for energy loans

    July 23rd, 2009

    SONOMA COUNTY – More than 355 Sonoma County residents have submitted applications to the Energy Independence Program, a financing tool for property owners wishing to make energy-efficient upgrades, requesting $14 million to retrofit their homes and businesses with energy water saving improvements.

  • Report lays out regional strategy to keep, create jobs

    May 25th, 2009

    Transforming the North Bay into a “jobs magnet,” complete with a tri-county “Innovation Corridor” to drive job development is just one of the economic recovery and long-term growth recommendations proposed in a report commissioned by the North Bay Leadership Council.

  • County governments coordinate climate-change solutions

    May 4th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA – Former Sebastopol City Manager Dave Brennan has come out of retirement to help coordinate efforts by Sonoma County governments to meet looming deadlines for reducing greenhouse gases.

  • Sonoma County preparing rules for green building

    February 16th, 2009

    SONOMA COUNTY – The county of Sonoma plans to adopt a green-building ordinance in time for more stringently water- and energy-efficient state building codes and project-rating standards to take effect this summer.

  • Sonoma County hopes to OK program for green loans next month

    February 16th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is set to vote in late March on whether to establish a program to fund loans for residential and commercial property owners in order for them to make energy-efficient and water-conserving upgrades to their properties.

  • Local governments consider upping green-building rules

    October 6th, 2008

    SANTA ROSA – Just four months after mandating that new homes and commercial buildings be built according to environmentally friendly standards, Santa Rosa city officials are already exploring ways to make the city’s buildings even greener

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