Financing District Energy

GEDI partnered with the Portland Sustainability Institute to assess the financing needs and gaps to implement urban district energy systems, and to develop strategies and tools to address this financing gap. GEDI identified economic development finance tools that could address three key financing gaps in the district energy systems’ project development cycle:

  1. Highly flexible funding for pre-feasibility studies and detailed system level feasibility studies.
  2. Addressing capital funding gaps via flexible, subsidized capital with deferred repayment needs.
  3. Revolving funds to finance improvements needed to connect properties to a new district system.

Development finance entities can address many of these barriers as part of regional strategies to promote district energy and EcoDistricts.

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CREDIT: Stu Seeger. Downtown Portland.