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March 16, 2010 - Minutes
A meeting of the Orleans Renewable Energy Committee was called to order at
4:05 p.m. in the Skaket Meeting Room at the Orleans Town Hall by Chair Mary
Jane Curran.
Present: Ken Rowell, Victor Noerdlinger, David Hubbard, Kenneth Rowell, Jim
Hungerford. John Jannell, Planning Dept. Liaison and Paul Rooker, Finance
Committee.
Absent: Sims McGrath, BOS Liaison, Richard Philbrick, Chris Galazzi.
Old Business:
Mass Energy Insight- John Jannell gave.a powerpoint program on the Mass Energy
Insight Program. It is an online website energy data system. It is a one stop energy
info center for the town and it is free. It requires the town to set an energy use baseline
year which the town can select. The energy data has come from the local utility with
John not having to enter the data. The information available is down to the department
and building level. John is still learning the program and it's capabilities. DOER does
have access to the data.
Info within the system can give rates of increase or decrease in energy use with overall
use and emissions. It will track use and cost for departments and buildings. Could be
useful in tracking waste and excess use. Ken Rowell asked about the potential of
entering data for wind turbine and see what impact of usage is. Could show Board of
Selectman impacts that could occur. Audits of Town buildings have occurred with the
police having theirs completed.
Planning Board Meeting - Planning Board meeting on building mounted wind turbines
passed a by-law which would allow roof mounted and free standing wind turbines
through the special permit process. Mary Jane spoke on the information available on
roof mounted turbines and problems associated with them. The business of Sun Wind
LLC and representative Timothy Holmes also spoke about roof mounted wind turbines.
Committee discussed recent problems of storm damage to wind turbines and what the
results will be with the public image of future projects.
COA Solar Project- John Jannell gave an update on the solar panel project at the
Council of Aging. The required documents are being sent to John Kelly as we speak.
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The size and array could vary. John handed out an info sheet on the project. The rate
of the SRECs for the project is currently set at .28 cents.
Noise Meter-The Health Dept. has a noise meter which can be used by Committee.
Jim Hungerford mentioned that he is planning to take a large number of measurements
around town and also to travel to other locations including the MMA wind turbine in
Bourne. Jim will take the measurements at different times at same locations, different
directions, and at varying distances from identified sources of noise. Need a well
rounded approach to identify many sources at varying distances to inform the public of
the noise levels present around town. Locations can also be entered into a GPS data
base to give exact location of measurements.
Minutes of March 2 meeting approved with the inclusion of handouts from Dick Philbrick
and Victor Noerdlinger in Committee minutes records. Vote was 5-0-0.
Next meeting on April 6, 2010 at 4:OOPM in Skaket Room
Meetin adjourned at 5:23
David L, Hubbard, Clerk
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