Local Energy Rules

What if your savings account could enable clean energy investments from insulation to solar to electric vehicles? Starting this summer it can. Blake Jones is the Volunteer Board Chair of the newly launched Clean Energy Credit Union. The brainchild of Amicus Solar, an installer cooperative, the online-only Clean Energy Credit Union is dedicated to financing the clean energy future. It provides loans for home insulation, solar, electric vehicles, and electric bikes and more. Its nonprofit mission is to illustrate that money-saving clean energy investments should get low-cost financing. John Farrell, director of the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, spoke with Blake in July 2018 about the launch of the Clean Energy Credit Union. https://ilsr.org/a-new-credit-union-aims-to-lower-the-cost-of-clean-energy-episode-59-of-local-energy-rules-podcast/