Monthly Archives: December 2010

Lori Stabile, December 14, 2010. WARREN – Work has begun on installing solar panels on the three schools within the Quaboag Regional School District, an initiative that could potentially save approximately $1 million over the next 20 years in electricity costs.

Superintendent Brett M. Kustigian said the multi-million-dollar project is being done at no cost to the district, which serves the towns of Warren and West Brookfield. He said the roofs are being rented for the next 20 years by Boston Community Capital and that the company is paying for the panels.

[Nexamp note: Nexamp is the installer for this project.] Link to Article

Measure extends renewable energy credit from ’09

Mark Arsenault and Beth Daley, December 11, 2010. WASHINGTON — The enhanced federal tax cut package expected to be voted on next week could include a windfall for Cape Wind and other renewable energy projects around the country.

The bill, released Thursday night in the Senate and widely distributed yesterday, extends a renewable energy credit worth up to 30 percent of a new project’s cost. The credit, introduced in 2009 as part of the Obama administration’s stimulus bill, originally applied only to projects under construction by the end of this year.

[...] “The extension is very important to the solar industry in Massachusetts,’’ said Dan Leary, president of Nexamp, a North Andover clean energy company that designs and installs solar arrays and has the state’s largest public contract to outfit water and waste-water treatment plants. “For people who want to invest in clean energy, it rewards them by putting cash in their hand now as opposed to waiting for better times down the road when they develop taxable income.’’ Link to Article

Area businesses vie for share of project

Kathleen Conti, December 2, 2010. More than two dozen Merrimack Valley businesses will benefit from federal stimulus funds to improve their energy emissions in what could be a statewide model for mobilizing the private sector to increase participation in efficiency initiatives.

Energy audits of buildings will be provided for up to 25 companies selected by the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce, funded with $500,000 of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money recently awarded to the chamber through the state Department of Energy Resource’s High Performance Buildings initiative.

[...] Joseph J. Bevilacqua, president and chief executive of the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce, said the funding, which runs until April 2012, has attracted applications from myriad local business owners interested in saving on energy costs to help their bottom lines during this slow economy. In partnership with Nexamp Inc., a North Andover renewable-energy consulting company, the chamber already has filled half of the slots, while other proposals are still being considered, Bevilacqua said. Link to Article