Contractual Assessments: energy efficiency improvements, Assembly Bill 811 (AB 811) is an environmental law in California signed into law by

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on July 21, 2008. AB 811 was authored by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine. AB 811 authorized all California cities and

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to designate areas within which willing property owners could enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of

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renewable energy generation, as well as energy efficiency improvements, that are permanently fixed to the property owner's

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, industrial, or other

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. These financing arrangements would allow property owners to finance renewable generation and energy efficiency improvements through low-interest loans that would be repaid as an item on the property owner's property tax bill. The contractual assessments could not be used to finance the purchase or installation of appliances that are not permanently fixed to the real property.{{Cite web, url=http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/Report/80173.htm, title = Approved AB 811 (LEVINE) Contractual assessments: Energy efficiency improvements Assembly Bill 811 helps California

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accomplish the goals outlined by Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 The passage of AB 811 makes it more imperative to provide an energy efficiency community program. AB 811 states: "This act is an urgency statute...". Cities and counties can now: (1) Make energy-efficiency and renewable energy affordable for California citizens (2) Increase property values (3) Improve the efficiency and

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of residential & commercial properties (4) Reduce the burning of dirty fuels and hence, pollution (5) Lower

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(6) Empower constituents with the fiscal security of distributed energy.

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Assembly Bill 811 2008 in American law AB 811

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