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The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program provides a new concept of financing energy efficiency, water conservation, and solar improvements through property-based assessments. PACE’s formation requirements utilize our foundation disciplines of energy efficiency consulting and assessment/ special tax implementation and administration.
Willdan has a proven, specialized assessment administration practice that has been forming and administering assessment districts for over 20 years. Willdan has over 70 finance professionals and 30 sustainability experts in house. Willdan’s finance professionals have backgrounds in accounting, economics, loan processing, business, and related areas that add to our depth of experience.
Willdan is the only firm providing a solution combining these areas of expertise with decades of demonstrated experience administering special districts and energy efficiency programs.
- Willdan Energy Solutions has been involved in energy efficiency and sustainability for over a decade.
- Willdan Financial Services has over 20 years experience administering various types of financing districts, including assessment districts.
- Willdan has been providing public agencies with reliable engineering and planning consulting services for more than 40 years.
Willdan has had two primary objectives since our inception in 1964—ensuring the success of our clients and enhancing our surrounding communities. Working steadily toward these goals we gained a notable reputation for technical excellence, cost effectiveness, and client responsiveness in providing superior engineering and planning consulting services.
In recent years Willdan has expanded our service offerings into several vital areas including financial and economic analysis, homeland security, environmental remediation, and sustainability. We have crafted this set of integrated services so that, in the face of our evolving environment—whether economic, natural, or built—Willdan can continue to extend the reach and resources of our clients.