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Minutes
Thursday, August 21, 2014
7:00 pm
120 Washington Street, 3rd Floor
Attendees:
J. Elie, C. Keegan, J. Cohen, J. Hayes, R. Nye
Approved Meeting Minutes of 7/17/14 with minor edits.
Guests: N/A
- Introduction – quick update on projects from Energy Manager
- Going to start the feasibility study of solar for municipal buildings, including the parking garages (total of 16 buildings) by Meridian with $$ financed from $2M settlement from Footprint for approximately $12,800. Jeff Elie drafted application to DOER, plan to submit within a week.
- Time to revisit Winter Island with changes to technologies /budgeting & Winter Island redevelopment planning. Jeff Elie, will seek proposal from Meridian for a refresh of wind feasibility for consideration. Additional vendors may also be considered.
- LED Streetlight conversion- 5 bids (Tanko, Ameresco, Johnson Controls, Siemens, SoLux). 8 Communities were included in this bid round. $300 - $350/fixture x 3275 fixtures, $1M project – $100-150K rebate program from NGRID, with wattage reduction of 50-60%, with $180K energy savings, giving a payback of 5 years, and this will allow us to hit our 20% energy reduction baseline year of 2009. Determine if this will be an Energy Savings contract, lease, bond, or other finance mechanism- to be determined by finance & mayor’s office. The lamps will then be on a 10 yr. warranty- so the cost to Electric Dept. will be reduced now that we own them & their maintenance. Hoping to review and optimize lighting plan. Conversations still underway regarding how NGRID bills streetlights (hrs they bill
regardless of hrs of use, and range of wattage regardless of actual wattage). Picking vendor mid-September (by selection committee made up of rep. from each of Beverly, Sale, Gloucester, Melrose, Winthrop) & then finance mechanism to be selected.
- Climate Change
General Discussion
~ ~ ~• Discuss draft RETF by-laws
- Quorum: majority + 1
- Size of Committee: 7 + alternate+ city liaison
- Who can vote: all committee members, not city liaison
- Attendance: 50% of scheduled meetings (via physical attendance, or via electronic means, not to miss)
- Appointment: 3 year term
- Discuss draft Mission statement~- table for email review.
- General discussion of the CLF/Footprint settlement money to be used for renewable projects~ ~ ~ ~(see above – solar feasibility)
- Solar Salem: Jeff Cohen reported that he & Jeff Elie met with Mayor about 2 weeks ago regarding method to continue program thru $$ incentives from installers similar to 70 permits in 4 months.
- Energy Storage and Backup (Microgrids, CHP, etc.) - hold
- Renewable Energy projects~-hold
- Brainstorm projects - hold
Subcommittees Update
- Executive Committee: None.
- Policy Committee: None.
- Outreach/Events Committee: None.
- Projects Committee: None.
Action Items
J. Elie: Send solar proposal from Meridian to RETF members.
J. Elie: Invite Dominick Pangallo to attend an RETF to allow us to meet him.
C. Keegan: Provide other name for wind study refresh consultants to be considered.
J. Elie: will take notes from Bylaws & send draft via email to all members for consideration.
Team: Review draft bylaws & make suggestions for changes to current mission statement.
Administrative:
- Future Meetings: Next Meeting to be held on September 18, 2014
- Agenda items not discussed: None.
- Additional items discussed: J. Hayes reported about NGRID opened up Worcester- sustainability hub. Investigate further as something we could seek out & support.
- Votes Taken: Approved July 17, 2014 meeting minutes
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