“A coup.”  That’s how one participant described the Sierra Club’s recent forum focusing on “Property Assessed Clean Energy” (PACE) measure.  Over 150 people from around the State gathered to hear from Cisco DeVries, pioneer of the PACE concept, and others discuss what Harvard Business Review has described as “one of the breakthrough ideas of 2010.”  

So what was the hullabaloo about?  Let’s start with a simple question:  why don’t more people install renewable energy system...