Yearly Archives: 2009

The North Andover Citizen: “Solar panels eyed for NAHS” December 10, 2009. If the town gets the $103,846 state grant submitted last Friday by Community Development Director Curt Bellevance, 90 solar panels will be installed on the North Andover High School.

Dan Leary, president of Nexamp, the North Andover-based company that will install the array if the grant is awarded, calls it a great project for the school.  Leary says the installation will only take about two weeks, and can be accomplished while school is in session.  The solar panels will be installed on a large flat roof area at the school using a patented PanelClaw system to attach them. Link to Article

 

 

 

 

The Boston Globe: “Changes that pay” December 6, 2009. For his retrofit, Pricejones has contracted with Nexamp in North Andover to install 25 solar panels on the roof, estimated to produce 5.25 kilowatts of electricity.  “With a few additional upgrades, that should take care of 100 percent of my electricity and my tenants’,” he says.  With rebates and credits from the state and the federal government, he estimates that he’ll pay only $16,500 — less than half the installed cost of $36,700. Link to Article

 

 

 

 

The Recorder: “Seriously Solar” December 5, 2009. ORANGE – A machine shop in the Orange Industrial Park is installing what’s believed to be the largest electric solar panel installation in western Massachusetts. 

The 1,100 photovoltaic panels going up on Quabbin Inc.’s 30,000 square-foot machine shop will provide 200 kilowatts of electricity, enough to meet an estimated 40 percent of the business’ needs and pay for itself in a year or two, according to company President Mark LeBoeuf. Link to Article

 

 

 

The Boston Globe: “$68m in solar rebates goes fast” December 1, 2009. North Andover installer Nexamp received roughly a $250,000 rebate to install 550 solar panels on the roof of NewStream LLC’s industrial recycling building in Attleboro several weeks ago.  Nexamp owns the panels and is selling NewStream the power they will generate.  The 110-kilowatt system is expected to provide the recycling company with a third of the power for its wastewater cleansing process.

Nexamp vice president, Jon Abe, said he expects to recoup the project costs in five or six years.  The estimates on payback periods vary, from a handful of years to more than a decade.  Massachusetts has high electric rates, which helps accelerate the payback time for an alternative source of power. Link to Article

 

 

 

The Cape Ann Beacon: “EBSCO provides a blueprint for going green” November 11, 2009.  IPSWICH – Doing the right thing for the right reasons can bring many benefits to the workplace, to the employees and to a company’s bottom line. 

Just ask the Ipswich-based international Web publishing and data base company, EBSCO, which has saved an estimated $80,000 annually on its utility bills alone through a fledgling environmental program led by employee volunteers dubbed the “green team”. 

From the solar-heated water employees use to the sneakers on employees’ feet, which the company collects and turns in for recycling when they’re worn out, EBSCO rarely misses an opportunity to turn off a computer, turn down the heat, convert to more efficient lighting or reduce its paper use – even if some of the return on investment, like solar panels, reaches out 15 years, based on current energy prices. Link to Article

 

 

 

The Lowell Sun: “A sunny deal” November 9, 2009.  WESTFORD – Aspiring electricians, auto mechanics and plumbers at Nahoba Valley Technical High School know what energy efficiency means to their future.  Learning about it is key to landing a good job, teachers tell them.

Now they have the chance to see what it takes to get a green job done and how it benefits their would-be clients.  Just take a peek at the top of the school building, said School Superintendent Judith Klimkiewicz.  Students can see North Andover-based Nexamp, Inc., installing 506 photovoltaic panels there, turning more than 7,600 square feet of rooftop space into a mini-solar farm. Link to Article

 

 

 

The Tewksbury Advocate: “New Tewksbury apartments go green” November 4, 2009.  TEWKSBURY – Local and state officials gathered Friday afternoon in Tewksbury to celebrate the grand opening of a new apartment complex, one that has been almost a decade in the making.  Representatives of Omni Properties in Concord welcomed guests, town officials, and local legislators to the official opening of the apartments at Village Green Residential, located at 1535 Main St.  Village Green offers 56 new apartments, and the building has been designed to be energy efficient, with its roof lined with solar panels.  To make the building more energy efficient, Omni Properties brought in Nexamp of North Andover to install 144 solar panels on the building’s roof. Link to Article

 

 

The Boston Globe: “Expansion of green jobs unhindered by slump” October 11, 2009.  Palmer Moore had been working for a high-end yacht builder until early this year, when he joined Nexamp, and energy management firm based in North Andover that specializes in solar installations.  While trained as a marine engineer, Moore now wears many hats.  “In this sector, you have to come into it with energy and passion, and a willingness to learn quickly and resolve whatever you need to resolve.  The nice thing is it’s not limited to one demographic or one select group of clientele.  Everyone has to pay their utility bills.” Link to Article

 

 

Wicked Local Acton: “Solar power to save schools money” October 9, 2009.  The Acton Public and Acton-Boxborough school committees unanimously approved North Andover-based Nexamp to install photovoltaic panels, which convert solar energy into electricity, on the roofs of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, R.J. Grey Junior High School and the Douglas Elementary School. Link to Article