Monthly Archives: December 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