About Chris Williams

Chris Williams is from Faze1. Faze1 helps residential HVAC and solar companies laser focus their marketing by using big data to target homeowners based on their unique heating and solar characteristics.

NESEA, Mike Duclos and HeatSpring Launch Passive House Design Training

If you’re a professional in the building industry, you’ve probably heard of the growing Passive House movement. You may even be familiar with the basic principles. If you have clients who want to apply the Passive House standard to an actual project, and you’re looking for a crash course to get yourself up to speed […]

How to Use Cheap Sensors and Mobile Phones to Make People Care About Energy Waste

Visibility of energy use is not enough to get people to change their actions, we still need to find a way to make people care to compel them to act.

At last week’s Cleanweb Hackathon in Boston, teams focused on combining hardware, software, and mobile devices to figure out how to make people care about […]

April 17th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized||

The Most Common Solar PPA Modeling Mistake, The Fix, and a Free Tool

This article will address the most common error that developers and EPCs make when modeling commercial solar PPAs. The video below will discuss the problem, the solution, and provide a free tool you can download so you can work through the answer yourself.

This article is part of a series common topics and questions that professionals […]

How to Price the Risk of Cash Equity vs Tax Equity Positions in Solar Partnership Flips

This article is part of a series common topics and questions that professionals have about financing commercial solar projects. Chris Lord of CapIron provided some insights into pricing certain types of investor risk in partnership flips. Chris is a co-teacher of our Solar Executive MBA. The 6 week class teaches solar professionals how to finance […]

How to Calculate the Buyout Price for Commercial Solar PPAs

This article is part of a series tutorials, interviews and definitions around commercial solar financing that is leading up to the start of our next Solar MBA that starts on Monday September 15th. In the Solar MBA students will complete financial modeling for a commercial solar project from start to finish with expert guidance. The class […]

April 7th, 2014|Categories: Financing, Solar, Solar Finance||