As reported by The Californian, the City Councils of Salinas and Seaside have launched the HERO Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program, which enables homeowners to make energy improvements and pay for them over time through their property tax bill.

Bjorn Jensen's 2010 Thesis for MIT focuses on using renewable energy generation to facilitate brownfield remediation, examining three successful and one unsuccessful case study to understand best practices and common hurdles.

The United States Department of Energy released the Energy Investment Partnerships Guide, a technical document authored by the Council of Development Finance Agencies that examines how state and local governments can leverage private capital to drive clean energy investment and development.