Subject: beEdison Wins FiRe Award at Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit
From: "beEdison" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:46:12 -0400 (EDT)

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beEdison a FiRe W [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001PVWTRUVd9-wVW49uiNz97QMD4sOafbdDF3E2A79fHeSvPSB-sUj3bLyanrL7vOIRJhgcezTMLrOQ-6qYv9yRWfrXw2eYbCBoXyXMEcvDMFhfTj3_cXi4liI85Aclk8hpf0Ce9OB-2EKSmAVtsFFoSYkwlWiugnECU3c7g4ZECnpXVDjkHIzHZu58f1deS2D1yqSaXT4QSGeiirQ612WLpdla4zxTsuUEhLQ6kESb3JDmb5xuaevN5BRSHiXvmv0fdtdcAfyTvVbkzY_p0Da64Q==&c=PNP3-LyEJbOWrkGkOrasWmaEsM7DYGwq0h4q0BLukemghRWRagQBEA==&ch=tAnOYgIp_zVAdIA2vSkkHEVtzugFFvV7o6NzJN4__u2L9E5JANjZig==]inner
at BNEF Summit
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beEdison was selected as a Finance for Resilience winner at the Bloomberg New Energy
Finance Summit in New York City. beEdison wins for its Clean Energy Credit Check
 solution which will lower transactional soft costs for commercial clean energy 
projects and promote clean energy asset securitization by the use of standardized
risk scoring.
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Finance for Resilience Press Release:

BNEF Summit Selects Four FiRe Winners for 2015 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001PVWTRUVd9-wVW49uiNz97QMD4sOafbdDF3E2A79fHeSvPSB-sUj3bLyanrL7vOIRJhgcezTMLrOQ-6qYv9yRWfrXw2eYbCBoXyXMEcvDMFhfTj3_cXi4liI85Aclk8hpf0Ce9OB-2EKSmAVtsFFoSYkwlWiugnECU3c7g4ZECnpXVDjkHIzHZu58f1deS2D1yqSaXT4QSGeiirQ612WLpdla4zxTsuUEhLQ6kESb3JDmb5xuaevN5BRSHiXvmv0fdtdcAfyTvVbkzY_p0Da64Q==&c=PNP3-LyEJbOWrkGkOrasWmaEsM7DYGwq0h4q0BLukemghRWRagQBEA==&ch=tAnOYgIp_zVAdIA2vSkkHEVtzugFFvV7o6NzJN4__u2L9E5JANjZig==]

Four high impact innovations to speed up the provision of finance for clean energy
in developed and developing countries have been selected as Finance for Resilience
(FiRe) winners for 2015, at the leading international conference on the future of
energy.

Delegates at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New York this week voted
 for ideas (known as "interventions") that aim respectively to establish new financing
options for households taking advantage of solar and energy efficiency; at offering
solar lease financing in emerging economies; at easy credit checking for renewable
energy securitisation; and at carbon scoring for green bonds.

The winning interventions were among 52 ideas submitted to FiRe this year, and have
the potential to scale up the financing of clean energy and climate solutions by
 at least an additional $1bn within the first three years. Several of the winning
ideas (see list below) aim to achieve global scope, but their initial geographic
 coverage includes US, EU, China, Caribbean, India, Asia Pacific and Haiti.

Michael Liebreich, chairman of FiRe and of the advisory board of Bloomberg New Energy
Finance, said: "It's thrilling to see how FiRe is building momentum. At the Summit
this week, some of last year's winners reported back on the progress they have made,
and how winning FiRe helped. It was very inspiring. This year we had more than twice
as many entries, and the quality was great. I'm looking forward to working with 
our four 2015 winners and want to thank everyone who has lent their support. FiRe
truly is crowdsourcing at its most powerful!"

The audience at the BNEF Summit on 13-15 April, made up of leaders from the energy
industry, finance, corporations and government, joined informal gatherings around
each winner to ask questions and learn about the opportunities for getting involved
in the four interventions.

The FiRe team will support the implementation of the four winning proposals, monitor
their progress and measure their results.

Hilary McMahon, director of research at Carbon War Room and a member of the FiRe
 challenge panel, commented: "The participants took the attendees on a journey from
the genesis of the idea, to the positive impact that the idea could have and the
 strategy for getting there. The winning projects therefore represent opportunities
for investment that we can all get excited about."

For more details on the interventions, or on how to get involved, please contact
 Lela Jgerenaia at [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]].

FiRe 2015 Winners:Architecture for finance

* Clean Energy Credit Check [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001PVWTRUVd9-wVW49uiNz97QMD4sOafbdDF3E2A79fHeSvPSB-sUj3bLyanrL7vOIRCyranmjBDksF7MaDehxRgtVe1nzHaxcuMpBuP-HLqI71f9GdDjG4W22LaNmkfXR3fKElfNG9knPRf_Wflho_8EpdDhyAdU7Stbdgm4FJ2Yy8GZB1KNyYcvhER6tFsH0uqX9Zz27llguOSwjncdqsNP5tVZRB833mifpMcEKsqtKhi3EkMHZBXMfrqgDEMOD0I03XPX5TXJY=&c=PNP3-LyEJbOWrkGkOrasWmaEsM7DYGwq0h4q0BLukemghRWRagQBEA==&ch=tAnOYgIp_zVAdIA2vSkkHEVtzugFFvV7o6NzJN4__u2L9E5JANjZig==],
championed by Chase Weir, chief executive officer of beEdison [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001PVWTRUVd9-wVW49uiNz97QMD4sOafbdDF3E2A79fHeSvPSB-sUj3bLCC-qKEEF2ZVunJiOrHTU3KAoeBjIkadppk8bT1IQXY6GZu9M8Ab50UrmcPsFG9qppq4ueztf1FqropxbCCBng9ia42pS8-5krFzwxwGmRXOSqCYGwrrTc=&c=PNP3-LyEJbOWrkGkOrasWmaEsM7DYGwq0h4q0BLukemghRWRagQBEA==&ch=tAnOYgIp_zVAdIA2vSkkHEVtzugFFvV7o6NzJN4__u2L9E5JANjZig==],
will lower transactional soft costs for commercial clean energy projects and promote
clean energy asset securitisation by the use of standardised risk scoring.

* CarbonCount(TM) for Green Bonds is led by Kateri Callahan, president of Alliance
to Save Energy. The team will grow the market for green bonds by providing a consistent,
quantitative measure of avoided carbon emissions per dollar of investment.Distributed
solutions

* Pay As You Save® Financing for Clean Energy Upgrades, championed by Holmes Hummel,
founder of Clean Energy Works, will open access to $10bn in financing for cost-effective,
distributed energy resources to customers of utilities that implement a voluntary
tariff for energy efficiency and renewable energy.

* Global Solar Lease Financing is led by Brad Johnson, president of Resource Mobilization
Advisors. The team will expand the deployment of distributed solar technology in
 developing countries through the introduction of solar lease financing.
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About beEdison
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beEdison [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001PVWTRUVd9-wVW49uiNz97QMD4sOafbdDF3E2A79fHeSvPSB-sUj3bLCC-qKEEF2ZVunJiOrHTU3KAoeBjIkadppk8bT1IQXY6GZu9M8Ab50UrmcPsFG9qppq4ueztf1FqropxbCCBng9ia42pS8-5krFzwxwGmRXOSqCYGwrrTc=&c=PNP3-LyEJbOWrkGkOrasWmaEsM7DYGwq0h4q0BLukemghRWRagQBEA==&ch=tAnOYgIp_zVAdIA2vSkkHEVtzugFFvV7o6NzJN4__u2L9E5JANjZig==]
is a sophisticated cloud-based software platform designed to eliminate the inefficiencies
in today's marketplace, standardize the diligence process, and uniformly assess 
risk for non-residential solar. beEdison helps solar industry buyers (investors 
& lenders) and sellers (developers & originators) through an automated Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) and Diligence-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform. beEdison is a portfolio company
of Distributed Sun. To learn more email [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
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beEdison Contact
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Name: Nick Kasza
Title: Program Manager
Phone: 202-618-6412
Email address: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
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