In our effort to keep you informed we list FYI the discussion elements of our Executive Committee meeting last night: 1. Mike Gordon participated in the WBOL E/E committee meeting yesterday and reports that the County will issue a support letter for the MHR Sustainability Plan. This will add impetus to the many support letters we are collecting from the other 6 counties and many NGOs. 2. We discussed a way to keep the Municipalities [...]
We are pleased to announce the second Sustainability Series to be held in the Somers Library as follows: Town of Somers Energy Environment Committee ’13 @ The Somers Library – 7:30 pm April 16th Somers Sustainability Action Plan Overview – Mike Blum May 7th Complete Streets/ Safe Paths – Rick Warren June 4th EnergizeSomers – Frank Maricic June 25th Sustainable Energy/Climate Change – Jerry Robock, guest speaker July 9th Our Land, Water, Air – Herb [...]
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER ENERGY ACTION CONSORTIUM Election of Officers Resolution This Resolution dated February 15, 2013 is between the Towns of Bedford, Cortlandt, Lewisboro, Mt. Pleasant, New Castle, North Castle, North Salem, Ossining, Pound Ridge, Somers and Yorktown and the Villages of Croton-on-Hudson, Mount Kisco, Ossining, Pleasantville and the City of Peekskill in Westchester County, New York (the “Consortium”). WHEREAS, the Consortium Municipalities share the objective of establishing mechanisms and strategies for: 1. Implementing a municipal [...]
There are now 13 of 15 Municipalities which have joined in our innovative Municipal Solar Buyers Group in which Solar opportunities will be identified and aggregated with like opportunities across NWEAC. This aggregation will allow each Municipality to benefit from the scale that our Consortium provides. The net steps for them is to survey their communities for Municipal Solar opportunities, provide detailed information about them so they can be aggregated and then work with our [...]
On Wednesday, May 23rd at 5:00PM all NWEAC particpants are invited to a call at 5:00PM. We will use call-in #s : 208 844 8230, 742814# and discuss the following: Project updates: • Intern Update (Dan/Katherine/Maria) • Municipal Solar Buyers Group (Vince/Herb) • Grant applications (Maria/Mike) • Conference projects follow-up (Mike/Dan/Herb) . NYPA Programs (Joh Markowitz)
Energize Somers was officially launched today, 2 years to the day of the NWEAC Celebration of Interdependence Day and the announcement of Grant Awards for Energy Efficiency from the DOE and NYSERDA. The launch was held in the Somers Town Hall ably led and guided by Councilman Richard Clinchy, SEEC member Frank Maricic and SEEC member Rick Warren. Help and expertise was provided by Patrice Hauptman of the EnergizeNY program. One of the novelties of [...]
Last night , thanks to Mike Gordon, Maria Fields and a small but dedicated support team the vision and potential of NWEAC was put on display for 180 people at the Ossining Public Library. We are sorry not all were able to be there. We are sure all those that did attend were impressed by the scope and prospects of projects that lie ahead, all of which hold promise for the citizens and businesses within [...]
