Ethan Elkind quoted in ThomasNet News, October 17, 2012

“California represents a huge portion of new car sales—11 percent of overall new car sales every year, and 20 percent of hybrid vehicle sales,” Elkind told me…. Elkind, who wrote the report with research associates and business leaders from various sectors in the electric vehicle market (carmakers, battery companies, public agency officials, electricity experts, etc.), says, “It has also taken the lead legislatively, but with this paper we tried to show a few more things that can be done to help the transition more.”

Ethan Elkind re-quoted in Forbes, August 24, 2012

PACE watcher Ethan Elkind, who holds a joint appointment at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools, called the ruling a “decisive win” for the plaintiffs, which includes the California Attorney General’s Office. “With this decision,” Elkind wrote at the Legal Planet blog, “the FHFA PACE policy is officially toast until the agency can develop a final rule pending the outcome of an ongoing rulemaking process “

Intelligent Utility, November 29, 2011 by Phil Carson
http://www.intelligentutility.com/article/11/11/energy-storage-california-prose-and-cons

“The report seeks to offer policy-makers an assessment of how the state could deploy energy storage technologies by 2020 in a cost-effective manner, given California’s environmental and renewable energy goals.”

Inside Cal/EPA, November 18, 2011 by Inside Cal/EPA Staff
http://iwpnews.com/sample_issues/insidecalepa_sample.pdf

“The state and federal governments could promote incentive programs, either by developing new programs or by expanding existing ones, to help finance energy storage projects, bring down costs and help manufacturers provide better data to spur further investment by 2020.”

-E&E News, October 24, 2011 by Anne C. Mulkern
http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/rss/2011/10/24/10 (requires registration)

“Proposed projects on farmland tend to spur opposition from agricultural interests worried about the loss of productive farmland in the state, as well as from endangered species advocates concerned about the destruction of farms that provide critical habitat for endangered and threatened species,” said Ethan Elkind, one of the authors of the study.

-Los Angeles Law Schools Examiner, October 24, 2011 by Seth Chavez
http://www.examiner.com/law-schools-in-los-angeles/how-to-harvest-clean-energy-from-degraded-farmland-ucla-law-berkeley-law

“It’s important to strike a careful balance between demands for food and energy,” said report author Ethan Elkind, research fellow at UCLA Law and Berkeley Law. “The state needs to preserve its prime farmland yet actively develop these projects on appropriate sites to meet our state’s energy needs.”

Progressive Railroading, July 13, 2011 by Editorial Staff
http://bit.ly/oHLW2V

“A good public transit system can create jobs, reduce commute time and expenses, and encourage smarter development that gives people more mobility and housing options,” he said.

Greentech Enterprise, July 9, 2010 by Mark Boslet
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/pace-on-life-support/

“I think it is going to keep things on hold,” agrees Ethan Elkind, a climate change research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA schools of law. “It makes everything a lot more expensive,” including Fannie Mae loans and the bonds that municipalities sell to raise PACE money.

San Jose Mercury News, June 17, 2010 by Ethan N. Elkind
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_15320358?nclick_check=1

Fannie and Freddie should continue to underwrite mortgages on properties with PACE assessments. They could insist on required safeguards, such as nonacceleration of the PACE assessment at the time of foreclosure and mandatory incorporation of the Energy Department’s PACE guidelines. But they should not jeopardize the future of this promising program over concerns that can be readily addressed. To do otherwise would be to mortgage our economic and environmental future.