Clean Energy Committee

Meeting Minutes

February 24, 2009 6:30 PM

Called to Order

A regular meeting of the Clean Energy Committee was held at the Enfield Town Hall, Enfield Street, Enfield, Connecticut on Tuesday, February 24, 2009.  The meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m. by Chairman LaPlante

Roll Call

All Members Present

Guest Speaker

Motion to move guest speaker before approval of minutes by Stephen Moriarty , second by Virginia Higley.

Kat West from Sterling Energy discussed her company and their program with the group.  She explained that Sterling gets their power through 80% wind and 20% Hydropower.  Wind is purchased 50% national and 30% from the Northeast section of U.S such as upstate New York.  Sterling has a monopoly on the CT Hydro supply (they get most of CT from Eastern section – Dayville & Collinsville).  Kat went on to discuss enrollment incentives.  They pay $25.00 per Committee signup that we give them. The town gets credit of one point for each one we sign up.  Residential can be a partial enrollment.  Business can be 10, 20,30 or 40% of their bill enrollment in clean energy.  After we sign on to their program, Sterling will give us a form to fill out.  They can help design the form for us if we wish. Kat said pictures help on the form and showing which town building (perhaps library) will get the solar panel would also be helpful to encourage local citizens to sign up for clean energy.   Karen asked if the Town of Enfield needed to sign up for their power usage.  She was told, no that was not necessary to get the $25/sign up from citizens. 

Stephen Moriarty asked whether Sterling had a Public Service Announcement we could use (modify if necessary) on the town TV station.  They don’t.  Kat suggested several sights such as Smartpower.org for suggestions on a non-profit TV spot. Stephen will check out those suggestions

After questions from the group Sterling was thanked for an informative presentation and left.

Minutes of Preceding Meeting

Motion by Virginia Higley, second by Stephen Moriarty approving January 27, 2009 mintues adopted.

Old Business

Home Show -  Members will check their schedules within the next day or two and fill in the spreadsheet from the Town Manager’s office.  Karen noted we needed coverage and we needed to be sure there were at least 2 members for each slot.  Sterling will be sending a box of handouts to the Town Manager’s Office for use at the Home Show and after.  We need to stamp Town of Enfield on the bottom so that we can get credit for any signups from the Home Show.  After discussion group decided to raffle books over the 3 days of the Home Show.

Raymond Gwozdz went over his presentation to the Town Council in March.

New Business

Stephen Moriarty informed group Town has 111 signed up with 117 points.

Ray has someone who will come to a future group meeting to discuss Geothermal.  This person is building a geothermal home. Karen discussed having Chestnut Hill Nursery come to a future meeting to discuss energy efficiency savings through smart plantings and also discussed with the group were green roofs for buildings for a future topic.

Gerard Lefleur discussed contacting a gentleman who installs stationary bicycles at gyms that are used to generate power.  He will attempt to get more information and possibly a future presentation to the group.

Virginia Higley answered a few questions on where the town was on ordinances for wind power generators.

Correspondence

 Raymond Gwozdz shared Levco brochure for cheaper electricity with group.

Adjournment

Motioned by Raymond Gwozdz secondmy Jeffrey Myjak to adjourn at 8:09 PM