The Recorder reports on how owners of rental properties work with businesses like Co-op Power to increase the value and efficiency of their units via the Mass Save program, here. The co-op has been coordinating a grant program at the center of this feature that's been convincing landlords (and others) around Franklin County to get their energy assessments done.
After many delays, Eversource has approved our application to tie the planned 595 KW community owned solar array in Greenfield to the electrical grid. This is good news for energy democracy in western Massachusetts! Read all about it via this front page feature in The Recorder this week.
We're proud of this new profile of our work, "Energy Democracy: Co-op Power, A Profile in Cooperative Ownership," an exciting report from the Center for Social Inclusion. It's very gratifying to have the co-op's work spotlighted by CSI, which works to identify and support policy strategies that transform structural inequity and exclusion into structural fairness and inclusion. Download it here.
Co-op Power was featured this week at the site of the excellent new climate change documentary about Naomi Klein's book of the same name, This Changes Everything, an important new voice on the international conversation about the climate challenge. Read it here.
The writer interviewed local economy expert and author Michael Shuman (Local Dollars, Local Sense) who called Co-op Power “One of the most innovative co-ops in the country and a leader in the local investment movement. Their structure, their democracy, the way in which they’re bringing benefits to members, all of that is pretty cutting edge,” he said.
CEO Lynn Benander was interviewed for a radio show heard on 90 stations across four countries. The host's lead in was this: "What is the answer to giant power companies with equally giant greenhouse gas emissions? One of the best examples is Co-op Power in New England." Listen here.
Our long awaited community-owned recycled-oil-to-biodiesel refinery in Greenfield, MA, is now hiring staff in anticipation of starting up operation! The plant will collect used cooking oil from around the region and turn it into fuel for trucks, tractors, cars, and home heating oil systems. If you know someone looking for good work in western Massachusetts, send them here.
Co-op Power
1 Ashfield Street, Floor 3, Office #4
Shelburne Falls MA 01370
(877) 266-7543 x 3
solar@cooppower.coop
