Program Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF)
Category Financial Incentive
Implementing sector Local
Last Update
State Florida
Administrator Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF)
Website http://www.solarenergyloanfund.org
Technologies Solar Thermal Electric, Solar Photovoltaics
Sectors Residential

The non-profit Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF) provides unsecured personal loans to qualifying Florida Homeowners for:

SELF gives qualifying homeowners the ability to secure financing for:

  • Weatherization and insulation
  • Replacement of inefficient air-conditioning systems
  • Solar thermal and solar photovoltaic (PV) systems
  • Roofs, windows, doors, and hurricane shutters
  • disability products and aging in place

SELF provides home improvement loans up to $50,000.

History

In June 2010, St. Lucie County received a grant award through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency Block Grant Program (EECBG). The $2.9 million award was used to kick-start the SELF pilot loan program, which began taking applications and making loans in early 2011. SELF has now expanded statewide.

SELF is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), certified by the U.S. Department of Treasury.

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