In a series of actions announced Aug. 24, the White House is opening up $10 billion of existing loan guarantees for so-called distributed energy projects and is allowing federal home loans to be used in conjunction with residential energy-efficiency financing. The White House announcements were tied to the Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas where President Ba-rack Obama discussed federal efforts focused on distributed energy generation projects, including rooftop solar, energy storage, smart grid technology and methane capture for oil and gas wells.
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