Spring 2005
New England GreenStart Team Gets
Bigger and Stronger
Four area nonprofit organizations are
collaborating to supply consumers in
Massachusetts and Rhode Island with
electricity generated from renewable
energy sources such as wind and
solar.
As you may know, the Mass Energy
Consumers Alliance and People’s
Power & Light have been jointly
offering New England GreenStart SM
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Likewise, Conservation Services
Group (CSG) and the Center for
Ecological Technology (CET) have
been teaming to offer GreenerWatts
New England in Massachusetts, and
CSG also offered GreenerWatts
Rhode Island. Effective immediately,
these organizations are providing a
single green power offering to residential and small commercial customers—New England GreenStart SM .
Going forward, in the renewable
energy field, CSG will concentrate on
its wholesale market activities, particularly with respect to solar electricity. CSG will be building new PV
plants throughout Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, many of which will be
supported by customers of New
England GreenStart SM .
CET will focus on marketing New
England GreenStart SM in western
Massachusetts and helping to secure
new renewable energy sources from
that region.
Mass Energy Consumers Alliance and
People’s Power & Light will continue
to provide overall administration and
management of New England
GreenStart SM as well as oversee the
development of the marketing and
outreach campaign to support the
retail green power market.
As of early May, there are over 4200
New England GreenStart SM customers. These customers are served by
the Hull wind turbine, the new turbine
in Dorchester, low-impact hydro,
landfill gas, and almost 100 solar and
small wind installations. With such a
large customer base, we are anxiously
No. 4
GreenStart Enrollments
Exceed 4,200!
Mass Energy, together with our sister
organization in Rhode Island,
People’s Power and Light, have
enrolled more than 4,200 customers
for New England GreenStart SM in
both states. Combined, the
electricity sources that these
customers have chosen will emit
12,600 fewer tons of carbon dioxide
this year than if their electricity had
been produced by the standard fuel
mix which consists primarily of coal,
natural gas, oil and nuclear power.
The environmental benefit is
comparable to taking 2,500 cars off
the road for a year!
awaiting the construction of new wind
projects in western Massachusetts and
elsewhere in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island.
Mass Energy Powers WBOS EarthFest in April
Left, Executive Director Larry
Chretien (right) preps yellowshirted staff and volunteers. In
spite of the rain, Mass Energy
had its best marketing day in
the organization’s history.
Once again this year, Mass Energy provided green power for the WBOS
EarthFest event in Boston. Partnered with Whole Foods Market, Mass Energy
staff and volunteers (including about a dozen GreenStart members) educated
EarthFest attendees about their green energy options.
City of Worcester pledges
support for Clean Energy
IBEW Local 103 Constructs Wind Turbine in Dorchester
On March 29th , Worcester became
the first city in Massachusetts to pass
a Clean Energy Resolution. In a
unanimous vote, the City Council
committed to have 20 percent of the
electricity used in Worcester’s municipal buildings come from non-polluting,
non-depletable resources by 2010.
In early May, Mass Energy’s executive director, Larry Chretien, met with
City of Worcester officials about how
Worcester can achieve it’s renewable
energy goals. Mass Energy looks
forward to working with the City and
local groups such as the Worcester
Regional Environmental Council,
Mass. Interfaith Power and Light, and
Clean Water Action in the months and
years ahead.
New England GreenStart
product mix changing
Your New England
G reenStartsm 100% product mix is
changing slightly this summer. Instead
of 5% wind and 19% biomass, New
England GreenStart sm 100% will be at
least 24% wind and biomass. Solar
will remain at 1% and small hydro will
remain at 75%. (New England
GreenStart sm 50% will consist of at
least 14.5% wind and biomass 0.5%
solar and 35% small hydro). This
small change will allow us to compensate for the delay of a number of wind
projects in Massachusetts. We are
committed to increasing the percentage of wind over time and we will be
able to do this soon as new turbines
come online this spring and fall. Your
demand is promoting the further
development of renewable energy
projects in MA and we will see even
Above:
On May 5, 2005 Chad
Laurent of Mass Energy (left)
and Marty Aikens of IBEW
Local 103 stand in front of
IBEW Local 103’s new wind
turbine nacelle before it is
lifted onto the wind turbine
tower.
Right:
The 100 KW turbine is
located just off of Interstate 93
in Dorchester.
more wind projects come online
soon. You will be happy to hear that
we are exceeding our solar percentages and we now have over 100 solar
systems in our New England
GreenStart sm mix. Your New England GreenStart sm dollars are
increasing demand for renewable
energy and are moving us towards a
sustainable and clean energy future.
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Ph. 617-524-3950 or 1-800-287-3950
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Mass Energy’s green power programs are made possible through generous support from the Massachusetts