The Governor just signed into law our major energy bill for this session. It’s significant legislation, and a hard fought compromise among competing interests within the energy industry. But we’ll need to do much more if we are to achieve our carbon reduction goals and that will remain a central concern of mine.
Carbon and Climate
building energy, divestment, emissions data, personal footprint, preparing for climate change, reducing emissions in ma, science and goals
Neighborhood Solar Group Buy Program Announcement
Community solar opportunity.
Belmont Staycation 2016 is here!
Staycation is a new program of the Belmont Citizens Forum to encourage residents to discover new activities right here at home (and avoid vacation air travel). Please, take the 5-minute Staycation survey to help with our research on how Belmont residents plan vacations. We at BCF hope to learn a lot this year so we can spread the word during vacation planning …
Outcome on the Energy Bill
It’s a very solid bill, although we couldn’t do everything that people urged us to do.
SREC II Emergency Extension
On Friday, April 8th, 2016 DOER announced emergency regulations to extend SREC II. SREC II was the second solar incentive program created by the state to support the installation of solar projects in the state from 400MW to 1,600MW of installed capacity. The cap of 1,600MW of approved projects was hit in early March. Please see the email from DOER …
2016 Solar Net Metering Legislation
Comment from Will Brownsberger The chart Andrew has prepared below summarizes the status of incentives for different kinds of solar projects under the legislation that we approved yesterday. It is not an attractive package from the perspective of the solar industry. Small residential projects continue to receive the full retail net metering credit (in private …