Resources
Municipal ground mounted solar at the Easthampton, MA landfill. Photo credit: Richard Getler
For Energy Consumers
Green Energy Consumers Alliance
Rocky Mountain Institute, Carbon-Free Buildings
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Community Planning for Solar Toolkit (launched May, 2022)
HeatSmart Alliance (including volunteer energy coaches)
Cambridge Energy Alliance and New Ecology Coalition Webinar: City of Cambridge Multi-Family Retrofit Program (June 2022)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance Local Energy Rules Podcast
Inflation Reduction Act: Tax Credits for Owners (August, 2022)
Local Energy Advocates Presentations
Empowering CCA Communities via bill S.2301, with Paul Fenn, President of Local Power, LLC (March 25, 2025)
Energy Coaching in Northampton and Beyond, with Denise Lello, Eric Broadbent and Tom Bassett (January 21, 2025)
Rehabilitating the former Northampton Nursing Home into 60 all affordable apartments, and adding geothermal energy, with Bill Womeldorf, Real Estate Project Manager at Valley CDC (November 19, 2024)
Valley Green Energy Electricity Aggregation Slideshow and Q and A - with Andra Rose, Board President, Local Energy Advocates and non-voting community member of the Valley Green Energy Working Group (September 24, 2024)
Everything you Need to Know about Valley Green Energy, Our New Joint Municipal Electricity Aggregation (So you can spread the word)! - with Ben Weil, Director of the Northampton Climate Action and Projects Administration and Northampton representative on the Valley Green Energy Working Group (August 20, 2024)
Becoming a DOER Climate Leader Community - with Chris Mason, DOER Green Communities Western MA Coordinator (May 22, 2024)
Local Energy Advocates of Western MA Retreat, a video of the first annual LEA Retreat - to brainstorm BIG project ideas - with experts Ben Weil on Deep Energy Retrofits, Tim McDonald on Deep Energy Exterior Retrofits, Ashley Muspratt on “Shaving the Peak", Bill Killough-Hill on Rooftop Solar and Storage, and Dwayne Berger on Parking Lot Solar Canopies and Storage (January 7, 2023)
All Electric House Tech Talk - Solar Assist Heat Pump Hot Water Heaters for Homes without Basements, video by Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity (November, 2023)
Testing the Viability of Deep Energy EXTERIOR Retrofits (DEERs), with Tim McDonald of Onion Flats (November 21, 2023)
Report on Survey of Local Energy Coach Programs in MA, with Eric Broadbent, HeatSmart Alliance volunteer (Local Energy Advocates presentation, October 17, 2023, revised for HeatSmart Alliance, November 10, 2023)
Cutting Edge California Energy Democracy and Climate Justice Advocacy, a video presentation with Jessica Guadalupe Tovar, Energy Democracy Organizer for the Local Clean Energy Alliance and Coordinator of East Bay Clean Power Alliance (September 19, 2023)
Newton MA’s Model Energy Coach Program, a video presentation with Liora Silkes, Newton, MA Energy Coach (August 15, 2023)
Moving Homeowners to Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency, a video presentation with Larry Chretien, Executive Director, Green Energy Consumers Alliance (May 16, 2023)
Utility Pricing, a video presentation by State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa (February 21, 2023)
A Zero Energy Vision for Our Schools, a video presentation with Sara Ross, parent of students at the ARMS and ARHS, a graduate of both, and a co-founder of UndauntedK12, a national nonprofit striving to activate K-12 schools in the work to safeguard a habitable planet (January 17, 2023)
Induction Cookstove Lending Library Program, video presentation with Ashley Muspratt, President, Center for EcoTechnology (December 13, 2022)
Retrofitting Multi-Family Buildings for Sustainability and Without Displacement, presentation and slideshow by Chris Gray of ReNU Communities (November 15, 2022)
Making Energy Retrofits Affordable, video presentation with Kent Hicks of East Branch Studio (August 16, 2022)
LEA’s Follow Up Session with Bloc Power (May 27, 2022)
Understanding Geothermal Energy, video presentation by Ben Weil (May 17, 2022)
Ithaca’s Green New Deal, video presentation with Ithaca Sustainability Director Dr. Luis Aguirre-Torres and BlocPower (March 15, 2022)
Valley Green Energy (Joint Inter-Municipal Community Choice Aggregation among Northampton, Amherst and Pelham, MA)
Valley Green Energy Launch! November 1, 2024.
Department of Public Utilities approval of Valley Green Energy CCA application, March 2024.
Valley Green Energy July 8, 2022 Kick Off meeting with consultants Mass Power Choice - recording and slides
Press Release: Valley Green Energy Will Soon Be On Its Way! June 22, 2022
Valley Green Energy Working Group web page (meeting agendas, minutes, documents)
Valley Green Energy Working group ongoing meeting recordings
Report of the Inter-Municipal Task Force on Community Choice Aggregation, February, 2020
Local CCA Frequently Asked Questions