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.

  • Board reopens SCEIP

    July 16th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA – The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors directed staff to keep the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program (SCEIP) open after it was temporarily suspended.

  • 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.

  • Long-time Napa firm rides heating trends

    March 1st, 2010

    NAPA – Warm Floors started as a solar thermal heating systems provider, long before solar heating became as familiar as the sun to Californians, and solar thermal is becoming a bigger part of the business again.

  • Sonoma gets energy funds

    February 22nd, 2010

    SONOMA COUNTY — Sonoma County was awarded $2,537,000 in State Energy Program funds from the California Energy Commission. The county’s application was ranked fourth highest, and it was one of only five applications funded statewide. It also received two additional awards through strategic partnerships.

  • $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.

  • 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.

  • Kunde to install 50 solar thermal panels

    December 21st, 2009

    KENWOOD — Kunde Family Estate winery thinks it can cut energy use by more than three-quarters by allowing the sun to preheat hot water used for cleaning. The project is being eyed as a pilot financing venture to navigate hundreds of other Sonoma County wineries toward much less energy consumption for heat and refrigeration.

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