Energy Efficient Enterprise Initiative (E3)​

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Energy Efficient Enterprise Initiative

Partner Community Capital’s Energy Efficient Enterprise Initiative (E3) helps small businesses, farms, nonprofits, and municipalities lower their energy costs and grow a cleaner energy economy in central Appalachia and the Southeast.

Our E3 team has worked with many businesses to upgrade lighting, improve equipment, renovate buildings, and add renewable energy systems like solar and waste-to-energy. We provide easy-to-understand support, hands-on project help, and flexible financing to make these improvements possible and affordable.

We also support clean energy companies such as solar installers directly with small business loans for working capital, equipment, and even real estate acquisition. Whether you’re a business, nonprofit, municipality, vendor, investor or another lender, we can work together.

Our assistance includes offering mini-grants for energy audits and feasibility studies, helping with project development, providing vendor recommendations, and supporting grant writing, such as for the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grant. We also offer flexible financing options, including senior and subordinated debt, to help bring projects to life.

Did you know that solar and energy efficiency improvements can reduce utility bills, improve productivity and asset value, and provide tax credits? Eligible businesses and farms may apply for mini-grants to evaluate the potential energy savings and potentially secure project funding. This assessment program is funded, in part, by USDA. Eligibility requirements apply and funding is limited. For more information, please email inquiries@partnercapital.org.

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