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By this summer at least three town governments in Massachusetts will be getting cheaper electric old landfills as stinky eyesores to money savers since they’ve decided to convert them to photovoltaic farms. The towns of Brookfield, Bellingham, and Ludlow are all going solar this year ...
By Chris Meehan, writer for SolarReviews Over the past few weeks, a number of prominent organizations around world have issued reports determining that solar is becoming an increasingly competitive energy source and is coming into parity—or cost-equality—with other forms of electric g...
Heads up, Vermonters – the Energy Co-op of Vermont announced that it has expanded its Co-op Solar hot water heating program. It now covers all of Addison, as well as Chittenden and parts of Grand Isle, Franklin, Lamoille, and Washington counties. The Co-Op reports that 400 residents h...
For those of you in the NYC area with an interest in multifamily buildings, let me tell you about (or remind you of, if you’re already in the know) GreenHomeNYC’s upcoming BPI Multifamily Building Analyst course. I, along with several other worthy instructors, will be holding said cou...
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States. NESEA’s flagship program, it’s an annual intergenerational gathering of professionals for three days of netw...
Forget the Oscars; forget the Superbowl; the most exciting event of the year is coming up on March 5-7th, the annual Building Energy Conference, hosted by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. I can’t conceive of missing it – for over 30 years NESEA has been the place where th...
NYC has enacted one of the boldest initiatives for sustainability in large buildings in the country. Known as the Greener Greater Buildings Plan, it focuses on buildings over 50,000 square feet. In New York City, many more multifamily buildings than office buildings fall into this cat...
Historic buildings make our cities livable and attractive. Almost by definition, they’re resilient — otherwise they would not have survived this long. But they’re also energy hogs, by the standards of what NESEA practitioners try to design and build. Adding insulation on the inside ca...
