YFP REI 133: How Property Owners Can Leverage Energy-Efficient Financing

Apr 3, 2025

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Attorney Colin Kalvas discusses PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing, including its origins, mechanisms, and applications for residential and commercial property owners.

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In this episode, Colin Kalvas, a public finance and economic development attorney, joins Nate Hedrick, PharmD and David Bright, PharmD to explore the intricacies of PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing. They discuss its origins, mechanisms, and applications for both residential and commercial property owners.

About Today's Guest

Colin Kalvas is a public finance and economic development attorney with Bricker Graydon in Columbus, Ohio. Colin serves political subdivisions, financial institutions, developers, and special purpose districts in many different capacities. He represents clients on economic development incentives, public-private partnerships, project financing, municipal bonds, federal income tax law, securities law, contracts, property development, and governmental revenues.

Colin has been at the forefront of developing property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing in Ohio. His PACE efforts include serving as counsel to PACE administrators and energy special improvement districts, as well as serving as bond counsel and capital provider’s counsel to entities that finance energy efficiency and clean energy projects through PACE.

He is well known within the national PACE community and regularly speaks at national PACE conferences. He has extensive experience negotiating, documenting and closing PACE transactions, including as part of complex capital stacks. Colin is frequently called upon to advise PACE capital providers of all kinds on transactional best practices and documentation.

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