http://www.padosa.com/how-to-go-green/save-money-going-green/getting-started-low-cost-electricity-savings HELPING SMALL BUSINESSES GET GREEN Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.padosa.com/how-to-go-green/save-money-going-green/getting-started-low-cost-electricity-savings/comment-page-1#comment-1825 Helping Small Businesses Go Green, Profitably : Ecopreneurist Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:47:20 +0000 http://www.padosa.com/?p=1237#comment-1825 [...] Lighting is the classic case. There are few projects that are so easy to justify, such as lighting. The ROI on a lighting project is a simple mathematical calculation. But the return on invested dollar doesn’t change the fact that the company first needs to have the invested dollar. Several issues remain as hurdles, including the absurd non-green leases most tenants have, and the limited cash companies have for an investment in non-core projects. Brights spots include creative financing plans, such as power-purchase agreements (PPAs) that require no up-front spending. [...] [...] Lighting is the classic case. There are few projects that are so easy to justify, such as lighting. The ROI on a lighting project is a simple mathematical calculation. But the return on invested dollar doesn’t change the fact that the company first needs to have the invested dollar. Several issues remain as hurdles, including the absurd non-green leases most tenants have, and the limited cash companies have for an investment in non-core projects. Brights spots include creative financing plans, such as power-purchase agreements (PPAs) that require no up-front spending. [...]

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