Nexamp in the News
Mass High Tech: "General Mills opens solar-powered Methuen facility"
Kyle Alspach, July 23, 2010. General Mills Inc. planned to unveil a solar power array at its Methuen facility Friday, the company’s first solar-powered facility in the United States.
The 110-kilowatt array will provide an average of 55 percent of the annual electricity used by the warehouse building, General Mills said.
The solar power will also offset more than 112,000 poubds of carbon dioxide annually, the equivalent of taking 10 cars off the road, General Mills said. The array was designed and installed by Nexamp Inc., a renewable energy and energy efficiency firm in North Andover.
The array is located at the General Mills’ facility at 35 Danton Road in Methuen. Link to Article
Milford Daily News: "Stimulus powers Ashland DPW building"
Kendall Hatch, July 15, 2010. ASHLAND — Even though the sun beating down on MetroWest for the last few weeks has towns instituting water restrictions and setting up cooling centers, Ashland officials have good reason to welcome all the sunshine they can get.
The first step of a federal stimulus-funded energy project that will save the town tens of thousands annually has been fully operational since Monday. A system of 120 solar panels on the roof of the main Department of Public Works building on Ponderosa Road is now pumping energy to the building. [Nexamp note: as mentioned later in the article, this solar array was installed by Nexamp and partner Florence Electric as part of the state's largest ever solar contract for public water & wastewater treatment plants] Link to Article
Carver Reporter: "Carver bog receives grants for solar project"
Frank Mand, July 9, 2010. CARVER - You wouldn’t think that a cranberry company had much of a “carbon footprint,” which Wikipedia defines as "the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organization, event or product.” But for the past two years, the owners of Edgewood Bogs has embraced a company philosophy that sought, among other goals, to reduce their “footprint,”and their efforts were rewarded this month with a grant from the Commonwealth Solar Stimulus program, which, along with another federal grant, will enable them to install an 18.9 kilowatt solar system at their Tremont Street farm. Link to Article
Lowell Sun: "Power-purchase deal boosts UTEC"
Hiroko Sato, July 5, 2010. The 147 photovoltaic panels shining under the sun on the United Teen Equality Center's rooftop in downtown Lowell is proof that the organization is one step closer to turning its 21,500-square-foot building into an ultimate "green campus."
The 33-kilowatt solar array, installed by North Andover-based Nexamp earlier this year, is expected to feed 88 percent of the electricity used at the center, cutting the nonprofit organization's electric bills by more than 50 percent. Link to Article
Patriot Ledger: Commentary - "Stimulus gets state back on feet"
Jeffrey A. Simon, Massachusetts Recovery and Reinvestment Office, June 26, 2010. COMMENTARY - More than a year after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, stimulus is working for the South Shore and across Massachusetts.
It is injecting money into our economy, creating and retaining jobs, protecting our most vulnerable citizens, and, through its ambitious transparency goals, effecting permanent change in the way government does business.
[...][W]e are seeing results in Easton, where after being unemployed for 11 months, Eric Aubrey found a job at Nexamp Inc., managing solar projects including the installation in Easton. Link to Article
