April 16, 2008
Back in August of last year, we told you about a solar citizen on Cape Cod who has worked hard to convince towns in that well-known vacation area to install PV systems on town buildings with help from grants from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
Peter White’s efforts have started to pay off, as the town of Yarmouth threw the switch recently on the brand-new 10.5-kW solar array on its town hall.
Our congratulations to Peter, and to Liz Argo of Solarwrights, Inc. , who managed the installation. You can read the follow-up story, courtesy of CapeCodToday.com, by clicking here.
January 29, 2008
David Hall
Crowding the bank of the lower Merrimac River in the northeast corner of Massachusetts, the small coastal city of Newburyport has seen its share of innovation since its incorporation in 1764. It hosted the first ever U.S. Coast Guard station, state mint and treasury, built the first clipper ship and carried out the first ‘tea party’ rebellion against the British tea tax. Today its identity is as an historic seaport with a vibrant tourism industry and a wealth of historic buildings. It organizes waterfront concerts in summer, an annual literary festival and a week-long ‘Yankee Homecoming’ festival.
The city also plays host to a downtown shopping mall, the Tannery, named after the business that was once housed in the restored mill complex on Water Street. And the Tannery can claim its own share in the Newburyport story of innovation, thanks to David Hall of Hall and Moscow, the management company. David has been instrumental in making the mall the largest user of solar PV power in the city, with 392 panels on the roof of two of the buildings and a highly visible pole-mounted 1.2kW tracking array in the main parking lot. The system is designed for a total capacity of 60kW, the most power that Hall and Moscow would be able to offset from the site under Massachusetts’ net metering laws. And in 2007, it produced a monthly average output of over 6 MWh. (more…)
August 21, 2007
Peter White
When Peter White of Barnstable, Massachusetts lost his election bid last year for that state’s 10th. Congressional District, people in the region might have thought he would drop out of sight. But for a lifelong progressive activist like White, the loss was simply a signal to try another route to one of his goals.
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Back in August of last year, we told you about a solar citizen on Cape Cod who has worked hard to convince towns in that well-known vacation area to install PV systems on town buildings with help from grants from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.