The PMA Room at the Haverhill Public Library has been reserved for Haverhill Energy Task Force meetings on the following dates:

• Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm
• Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm
• Monday, March 16, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm
• Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm
• Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm

The PMA room is on the first floor near the library parking lot. An agenda will be sent out ahead of each meeting. Please send any suggestions you have for agenda items, especially proposals that have been made in the past that should be pursued. Some items that I have in mind:

• Update on recent efforts by the city to go green.
• Bring in experts to answer questions regarding power purchase agreements.
• Presentation on the Portsmouth, NH Green Alliance, an idea that may be worth replicating in Haverhill

There will be a tour of the Covanta Haverhill Waste-to-Energy facility Monday, January 19 at 6:00 pm. This facility, at 100 Recovery Way in Haverhill, MA, generates electric power from trash, landfill methane, and wind. The tour can accommodate up to 20 people. Please RSVP to Mike if you plan to join us. Members of the Boston Alternative Energy Supporters Meetup who plan to join the tour should also RSVP on the Meetup page. You can get directions to the site using the map below.

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I plan to attend this December 2 event at NECC, which the City of Haverhill is co-sponsoring:

There will be a free Energy Efficiency Workshop this Monday, Oct 20th, at 6:30 pm in the Northern Essex Community College Technical Center at 100 Eliott Street in Haverhill, MA. See the flier below. The Energy Task Force will be represented there. This is a great opportunity to learn about the greenest energy source: the energy we don’t use.

In National Grid proposes more solar power, Erin Ailworth explains a new plan by National Grid to build solar arrays in Everett, Revere, Dorchester, and … Haverhill! The Haverhill facility would produce up to 1MW, and would reside on a former KeySpan lot on Hilldale Ave, near Lafayette Square.

This is great news. The proposals still having regulatory milestones to cross, so it will take a while. These will be impressive installations. 1MW of photo-voltaic solar panels will take up quite an area.

The next Haverhill Energy Task Force meeting will be held Thursday August 14 at 7:00 pm, in room 301 of Haverhill City Hall, 4 Summer Street. On the agenda:

• Wind zoning ordinances.
• New task force member Dhruv Mahajan has some ideas for Haverhill projects.
• Status of our recommendations from 2007
• Review of Alcohol Can Be a Gas, a book mentioned in the previous meeting.

Hope to see you there!