Ground Breakers
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Rachael Simonoff Wexler,
CEO, Sunlight Planet, Venice, Calif.
Simonoff Wexler, a leading legal advisor to businesses in alternative energy and
clean technology and recently named CEO of the financial services firm
specializing in commercial renewable energy projects, takes the helm of a
company that “has positioned itself to play an integral role in the successful adoption of
renewable technology at the commercial level, especially for project sizes that
fall below utility scale.” This is a unique opportunity to play a formative role in the renewable energy
movement, said Wexler who comes to Sunlight Planet from the Los Angeles office
of Goodwin Procter, where she was a partner in the business law department and
a member of its corporate practice. Wexler built a national reputation for working on complex financial and
corporate transactions for businesses in the alternative energy, recycling,
nanotechnology and life sciences industries. Sunlight Planet provides financial and legal structuring services, investor
support and project fund administration for owners and investors of sustainable
development and renewable energy projects throughout the U.S.
Among its various projects, the firm is providing structuring solutions for a wind
turbine project in New York; project fund escrow and administration services on the behalf of an investor group with active projects in Arizona and
Pennsylvania; and a turnkey solution for the structuring, management and funds
distribution for rooftop solar installation on behalf of a non-profit entity in
California.
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  $49,000 amount of federal funds granted to provide green job training for high school
students in New Mexico. The projects will teach students climate change mitigation techniques and
provide educational tools for a green workforce.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 30% of the energy used in commercial buildings is wasted. Energy use in commercial buildings accounts for 17 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at a cost of more than $100 billion per year.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 14% increase in the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities in the U.S. between 1990 and 2008.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $76 million amount awarded by DOE to support advanced energy-efficient building technology projects and the development of training programs for commercial building equipment technicians, building operators, and energy auditors
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 $200 million amount the U.S. Department of Energy will invest, over five years, to expand and accelerate the development, commercialization, and use of solar and water power technologies throughout the U.S.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 37 number of research projects awarded $106 million from the DOE that could: produce biofuels more efficiently from renew-able electricity; design batteries for electric vehicles; and remove coal-fired power plants in cost efficient ways.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 $2 million amount of grant competition under the Veterans. Workforce Investment Program to assist eligible veterans by providing employment, training, support services, and more in renewable and sustainable energy.
Source U.S. Department of Labor
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