Sonoma County office real estate joins pilot solar energy rights investment program

2020-12-02T17:07:50-07:00November 10th, 2020|News, Feature|

JEFF QUACKENBUSH THE NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL November 10, 2020, 10:00AM --- While solar panels on California commercial buildings and homes is hardly novel, the way that they were paid for recently at North Bay office complexes is putting a clean-power twist on a longstanding petroleum industry practice of purchasing energy rights. Installation of over [...]

Leading Northern California Commercial Real Estate Company Completes Solar Pilot Program with REACH Commercial 2020 Company

2020-12-02T17:05:52-07:00October 21st, 2020|News, Feature|

October 21, 2020 · 3 min read --- Energy-Producing Retail Realty, Inc. finalizes 150,000ft2 solar pilot program SANTA ROSA, Calif., Oct. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy-Producing Retail Realty, Inc. ('EPR2'), an investor in and developer of EPR/energy rights and a member of the REACH Commercial Class of 2020, has announced the completion of its EPR-Solar [...]

Triple-major Bear launches disruptive solar energy financing program

2017-05-04T15:47:56-07:00August 24th, 2015|News, Feature|

Chris Pawlik ’06 is Founder and CEO of Energy-Producing Retail Realty (EPR2).  A UC Berkeley triple-major with undergraduate degrees in Political Economy of Industrial Societies, Slavic Language and Literature, and Business Administration, Pawlik has applied his Berkeley education to a new challenge: accelerating the deployment of renewable energy on commercial properties. Pawlik founded EPR2 in [...]

Santa Rosa building serves as launchpad for new commercial solar program

2015-09-02T09:34:37-07:00August 18th, 2015|News, Feature|

BY ROBERT DIGITALE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT August 17, 2015, 7:41PM A Los Angeles-based company has put a solar electrical system on a Sonoma County commercial building using a new approach that financially rewards property owners and requires no upfront costs of tenants. Energy-Producing Retail Realty said its patent-pending business method has the potential “to disrupt [...]

CA Real Estate Innovation Firm Announces Disruptive Financing Plans for Solar Energy

2017-05-04T15:47:56-07:00August 18th, 2015|News, Feature|

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy-Producing Retail Realty, Inc. ('EPR2') announces the first commercial solar installation in the US to take advantage of innovative financing that is poised to disrupt the commercial solar industry. The company's patent-pending business method enables the deployment of solar on commercial buildings through its proprietary Next Level Solar [...]

New Idea: Third-Party Solar Finance For Commercial Property

2017-05-04T15:47:57-07:00August 12th, 2013|News, Feature|

By: Wayne Grohl August 12, 2013 With recent announcements by the White House reinvigorating solar energy goals through the Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative, the costs of solar are expected to continue their trend downwards to eventually meet those of conventionally generated electricity. The most recent initiative makes it a goal for solar to get there [...]

Third-Party Finance for the Other 90 Percent (of Commercial Buildings)

2015-02-24T00:55:25-07:00July 5th, 2012|News, Feature|

EPR Squared says its “real estate structure” can put solar on multi-tenant buildings. Herman K. Trabish July 5, 2012 Third-party financing of solar projects is growing. Fast. California, which represents 40 percent of U.S. solar, went from 42,933 total kilowatts installed in the first five months of 2011 to 77,473 in the same period [...]

U.C. students tackling energy issues

2015-02-20T10:07:08-07:00April 4th, 2011|News, Feature|

Studying Summit bank building on feasibility of new cost, lending concept SANTA ROSA (April 4, 2011) — A team of graduate students is spending the next couple of months analyzing the Summit State Bank headquarters building in northeast Santa Rosa as part of a feasibility study on a new type of renewable-energy system financing designed [...]

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