Getting Started
With Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), you can increase your bottom line while lowering your energy costs. PACE offers long-term fixed interest financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy measures repaid with an assessment on the property. PACE is all private capital with no government funding.
PACE financing can also be used with utility energy incentives and tax credits. See what energy efficiency programs are available in your area.
Set the PACE is an open market program that welcomes multiple funding originators. Our lending partners (over 23 board approved) allow us to offer on-demand cash for PACE projects, reducing the approval process to mere days.
We require lender consent from Sr. lenders and welcome all forms of lenders as we look to finance small and large projects, new built, retrofits, and refinancings.
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This program is only available to commercial properties located within the City of St. Louis within the State of Missouri. This includes for-profit businesses, non-residential, tax-exempt properties such as privately-operated community centers and hospitals. The property may be a commercially-owned multifamily building with four or more dwelling units. Properties may be industrial, retail, or other. PACE can fund both new builds and renovations of existing buildings and using PACE to refinance or retroactively pay for recent projects.
Eligible Properties
Eligible Measures
including but not limited to
Heating & Cooling
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New automated building and HVAC Controls
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Variable speed drives (VSDs) on motor fans and pumps
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High efficiency furnaces
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Combustion and burner upgrades
Windows & Doors
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Building enclosure/envelope improvements
Roofing
Energy Efficiency
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Solar PV system
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High efficiency heater
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LED light fixtures
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Heat recovery and steam traps
Ineligible Measures
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Compact flourescent, screw-in lamps
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Plug load devices
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Measures that are not permanently installed and can be easily removed
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Measures that save energy solely due to operational or behavioral changes
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power correction, power conditioning
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Any measure that does not result in energy savings or renewable energy production.
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Any measure that cannot reexplained in terms of industry-standard engineering or scientific principles
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Refrigerant charge (AC/Split Systems/Heat Pumps)
Project Cost
The estimated economic benefit expected from the project during the financing period must be greater than the cost of the project. This includes the costs of energy audits. A property owner making or installing an improvement or application using PACE funding must obtain a project proposal from the contractor or project engineer that the improvement or application will achieve a savings-to-investment ratio (SIR) of greater than 1.0. SIR = total estimated savings over term + total incentives/PACE funding amount
The person or persons possessing the most recent fee title or land contract vendee’s interest of an eligible property as shown by the records of the local County Register of Deeds. To be eligible to participate in the program, an eligible property owner must, at a minimum:
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Agree to participate in annual surveys and program evaluations, which may include access to utility bill usage information. Show Me PACE encourages parties to enroll in the Better Buildings Challenge and share the buildings’ energy data through EPA Portfolio Manager.
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Obtain written consent of existing mortgage lenders of participation in the PACE program
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Certify that they (and its corporate parent if the property owner is a single-purpose entity) are solvent and that no proceedings are pending or threatened in which the property owner (or the corporate parent, as applicable) may be adjudicated as bankrupt, become the debtor in a bankruptcy proceeding, be discharged from all of the property owner’s (or corporate parent’s, as applicable) debts or obligations, be granted an extension of time to pay the property owner’s debts or be subjected to a reorganization or readjustment of the property owner’s debts. The property owner must also certify that the property owner has not filed for or been subject to bankruptcy protection in the past three years.
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Be current in the payment of all obligations secured by the subject property, including property taxes, assessments and tax liens and have had no delinquencies within the past 3 years (or since taking title to the subject property if it has been less than 3 years).
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Have no involuntary liens, defaults or judgments applicable to the subject property.
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Certify that it is not party to any litigation or administrative proceeding of any nature in which the property owner has been served, and that no such litigation or administrative proceeding is pending or threatened that, if successful, would materially adversely affect the property owner’s ability to operate its business or pay the contractual assessment when due.
Eligible Property Owners
Interest rates and fees
Show Me PACE lenders may charge the market interest rate on PACE loans, plus applicable fees. PACE market and the particular terms of each loan should not be confused with the market rate of traditional commercial mortgage financing. Show Me PACE has the following fees for PACE projects:
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one-time program operation fee for standard projects* of 1.25% for projects under $1,000,000 and a 1% fee for projects over $1,000,000 with a cap of $40,000. This fee will be collected as part of closing.
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Annual servicing fees is 1% of the annual collected amount not to exceed $1000.
For questions on eligible PACE projects, contact the PACE manager at PACE@moenergy.org or 573-616-1046