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Welcome
This page is meant to provide a gateway into this topic. The sections on this page are provided to organize information so that users can learn, edit, and update the content for sharing with everyone. The main component of these sections are meant to be links to new pages, so create, share, and enjoy.
The very first thing we suggest you review is Volumes I and II of the New Hampshire Handbook on Energy Efficiency and Climate Change. We have converted these documents to pdf format and provide them below.
- Please see the current events page to find out about upcoming activities and the latests news from the energy committees.
- WARNING!!: We have now implemented a spam blacklist and it has cut the spam by 90%, we will continue to shut down the rest without ending our policy of anyone can post - except spammers. We will no longer be allowing anonymous edits - all editors will have to register as a result of increased spamming.
- Also, please visit our new Calendar.
New Hampshire Municipal Energy Assistance Program
Significant UPDATE!
Please click on the link above to find out more about how your community can participate in the MEAP opportunity!
2009 Stimulus and NH State Programs
The signed version of the stimulus bill provides a number of incentives and programs that could be utilized by LEC's and local communities. More to come on this subject.
Full Text:
Stimulus Section
$6.6 Million in New Hampshire Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program
The New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning (OEP) announces the availability of $6.6 million through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program. This grant program will fund projects that reduce energy use and fossil fuel emissions, and improve energy efficiency.
Click HERE to find out more...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the "Recovery Act," includes $16.8 billion for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) programs and initiatives. This site describes how the funding in the Recovery Act is being used by EERE.
Who We Are
First there was the Carbon Coalition and the NH Climate Change Resolution. Adopted by 164 Towns in New Hampshire, the resolution calls for action and the creation of local energy committees.
The New Hampshire Community Energy Project, www.nhenergy.org, is a project devoted to the objective distribution and sharing of information. Germinating during the series of statewide sessions for local energy committees, this idea began to take form during the meetings as discussion focused on how to keep everyone informed. The decision to pursue this effort arose from the first meeting of the Rockingham/Strafford Energy Committee Alliance.
This is a grassroots effort reflecting our belief that this issue can and will be solved from the ground up. We are not, and will never be, part of the government. While some may work for the government, this effort is a personal passion and based on the freedom of speech and exchange of ideas. We will, however, accept funds from the government to support these efforts.
As a response to the creation of over 90 local energy committees in 2007-2008, the Carbon Coalition Steering Committee formed the Local Energy Committee Working Group to help facilitate the formation and work of each of the local energy committees.
The mission of the Local Energy Committee Working Group (LEC WG) is to provide collaborative guidance and technical support to New Hampshire Local Energy Committees seeking to reduce energy use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions within their communities.
The current members of the committee can be found at the page: Local Energy Working Group
New Hampshire Communities (and others)
The New Hampshire Communities link will take you to a page indicating Cities and Towns throughout New Hampshire who have made a choice to take action. To find out more information on what these communities are currently doing and how you can get involved simply click on the desired community.
We have also added links on the community page to websites for other communities outside the Granite State to provide examples, information, and exposure to what other communities are working on - some of these communities are doing some great work, check them out.
Cool Monadnock:
Cool Monadnock is a three-year joint initiative between Clean Air-Cool Planet and Antioch New England Institute. The goal of Cool Monadnock is to achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the Monadnock Region.
This is a collaborative community mobilization effort that will serve the towns of the Monadnock Region that are members of the Southwest Region Planning Commission. The majority of the towns in this region passed resolutions last year at Town Meeting to take action on greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and to form local energy task forces.
This project was made possible through funding by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
Projects
- Inventory and Benchmark: What do you have? How does it compare?
- Audit: How does it perform?
- Carbon Calculators: What is your carbon footprint?
- Presentations: Presentations given to Local Energy Committees and other members of the public.
- Energy Efficiency Ordinances and Codes: What is out there and how it is done.
- Small Wind Energy System Ordinances: Encourage wind turbines and protects the public's interests.
- Greentags: What are they, where are they, who has them, and the local example.
- Grant Opportunities: There are several grant opportunities that may be available to local energy committees.
- Energy Performance Contracts: Overview of Energy Performance Contracts, a tool municipalities can use to pay for energy efficiencies improvements through energy cost savings.
- StayWarmNH: The State of New Hampshire has launched their Stay Warm NH campaign, to provide weatherization assistance to its residents for the upcoming winter heating season.
Technology
Getting Started & Using This Page
This website is designed to allow anyone who has created an account to edit, alter, and contribute to the website at any time. This allows for greater accuracy and more timely updates regarding the efforts being taken by communities throughout New Hampshire. Contributing to the website is as easy as creating an account and clicking on the edit tab at the top of whatever page you would like to alter. For a full User's Guide, please click on the link provided below. And remember, this is YOUR website!
Basic Editing
Two-page Basic Editing Document
Contacts
If you want to change this page, you must email one of the three below - this page is locked to prevent spam. Sorry, but one bad apple...
wiki bureaucrats:
Clay Mitchell - clayaz(at)comcast.net
Mike Behrmann - mjbehrmann(at)gmail.com
Sara Kaufman - skaufman(at)cleanair-coolplanet.org
