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Flastar: Florida Alliance For Saving Taxes And Energy Resources. Final Report., Florida Solar Energy Center, John Sherwin
Flastar: Florida Alliance For Saving Taxes And Energy Resources. Final Report., Florida Solar Energy Center, John Sherwin
FSEC Energy Research Center®
This document comprises the final project report in supporting the demonstration of the pilot Florida Public Building Loan Concept. This loan program provides low cost funds to eligible public entities for upgrade of building energy systems. The FLASTAR program (Florida Alliance for Saving Taxes And Resources) was modeled after the successful Texas LoanSTAR project [1,2]. Within that program, funds provided from oil overcharges are loaned to various facilities for building system retrofits. These loans are repaid (with interest) from energy cost savings. As of the most recent reporting, the LoanSTAR program had saved the State of Texas some $13.7 million …