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The Building Energy Masters Series was launched in 2012. We learned a lot. This 3-minute video summarizes some of those important lessons that we can build on to make the program successful in 2013 and beyond. It’s the cliff-notes for NESEA members who haven’t had a chance to get involved yet.
For those of you who didn’t get to join us in Portland for the 2012 Annual Meeting, here’s a synopsis of the Annual Meeting as recounted by Maine Association of Building Energy Professionals’ Robert Howe in his member email titled “Energy Wonks Talk Pretty Good House”.
“Members of both MABEP and the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) spent some quality time together at NESEA’s 2012 Annual Meeting held in Portland this past Saturday evening at the urging of Portland architect Phil Kaplan of Kaplan Tompson, a member of the NESEA board.
The meeting was held at the Portland Public Library and included a tour of the building’s many ‘green’ features. Earlier in the day were tours of other energy efficient buildings in town, led by local architects.
Following some informal networking and munchies, the annual meeting included an introduction of the NESEA staff and board of directors by NESEA President Jim Petersen of Petersen Engineering in Portsmouth NH, and a review of NESEA’s past year by executive director Jennifer Marrapese.
The business meeting was followed by a panel discussion on “The Pretty Good House,” lead by Dan Kolbert of Kolbert Construction in Portland (see photo).
Dan had used the term Pretty Good House at one of the monthly energy wonk sessions hosted by Maine Green Building Supply’s Steve Konstantino at which Kolbert frequently presides. The idea is this: not everyone is going to want to or can afford to build the perfect the house…the net zero energy house…the Passivhaus. So if you have such a client who doesn’t want to go all the way, what do you do?
This sometimes serious, sometimes irreverant, sometimes comical discussion didn’t lead to any hard and fast rules, but did offer some useful insights.
Just about everyone agreed you don’t just walk away from that client, nor do you throw up your hands without trying to get the less-than-perfect client to see the value of building energy efficiency into his or her home.
One panelist opined that a lot of folks want to be half way between the two extremes of ignoring energy efficiency, on the one hand, and being cutting edge, on the other. But others argued that few people strive to be mediocre, and may come around to your way of thinking with a little effort.
Portland’s Paul Ledman said, “If I just had $900 worth of heating oil delivered to my house and then found out that my neighbor has a total energy bill of less than $10 a month, I would covet what my neighbor wants.” For the record, Paul doesn’t have $900 oil bills, but has a total energy bill sometimes less than $10 a month in his unit of the three-unit near-net-zero-energy apartment house he and partner Colleen Myers built on Portland’s Cumberland Avenue. (Incidentally, MABEP members Upcountry Building Inspectors, Island Carpentry and ReVision Energy all had a role in the building’s construction. You can check out Paul and Colleen’s home by clicking here and going to page 17 of NESEA’s online magazine, Building Energy.)
Someone else suggested you shouldn’t leave energy efficiency until the last item on your client checklist, after countertops and other stuff. They will be more inclined to want to include e.e. measures if they aren’t an afterthought.
John Monaghan urged folks to listen to their client and to work with them to achieve the desired outcome.
All in all, it was a lively, entertaining and thought-provoking evening. And that wasn’t the end of it.
Following the meeting, folks adjourned to the comfortable ambience of Grace, the former church-cum-restaurant, a block east of the library on Chestnut St. where we enjoyed good company, drinks and hors d’ouevres.
MABEP members present at the NESEA meeting included Claire Betze, Peter Taggert, Steve Konstantino, John Monaghan, Margo Billings and Bob Howe. An initial discussion about further collaboration between NESEA and MABEP will be continued at the September MABEP board meeting.”
“Rather than a snack, I want to provide the entire meal.”
Those were Marc’s words when we first met to outline his ‘Zero Net Energy Homes’ course for the Building Energy Masters Series. I’ve watched him invest a tremendous amount of time and thought into the course since that initial meeting – now that I see all the content, I can confidently say that he’s achieved his goal. He’s created an incredibly detailed learning path for people who really want to do this work. It leverages a ton of existing content, and Marc’s video presentations take it to the next level and tie everything together.
Click this link to download our working syllabus for the class starting October 1st. The formatting is unpolished, but it will give you a sense for the flow and depth of the offering.
I thought it would be useful to see what the entire meal looks like, just in case you’re hungry.
Welcome everybody to the 2012 annual meeting of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.
I am really excited that we’re here in Portland. There’s a vibrant green building and sustainable energy community here – a community that has built what they need in the form of the monthly Building Science Discussion Group, Maine Association of Building Energy Professionals, Passive House Maine, USGBC’s Maine Chapter, the Pretty Good House movement and many other formal and less formal organizations and collaborations.
The Portland area has traditionally not been as well served by NESEA as many other areas in our territory. And for as long as I’ve been at NESEA, we’ve been hoping to change that. So I was delighted when NESEA board member Phil Kaplan invited me to Portland and asked us to consider hosting our annual meeting here.
Since our first meeting with Phil and the Building Science Discussion Group in June, many of you Mainers have drunk the NESEA Kool Aid. Architect Rick Renner, a longtime NESEA member, is running for the NESEA board of directors. Sam Strickland is serving on a committee to help us create and launch online communities of practice so that geography ceases to be such a challenging barrier for NESEA members who want to learn and share year round. Steve Konstantino of Maine Green Building Supply has become a business member and opened his facility up last night for an annual meeting pre-game – a Building Science Discussion Group to welcome the whole NESEA community to town.
Profound gratitude. As I prepared my remarks for tonight, that was the mindset I started from. I feel profoundly grateful to this community and appreciative of all that we are accomplishing together.
Let me explain to whom I am grateful and why.
I am grateful to the more than 200 members who are really actively engaged with NESEA far above and beyond simply writing a check and receiving their monthly newsletter and their BuildingEnergy Magazine twice a year. It is surely unprecedented within NESEA that almost a third of our members are actively engaged in planning the conference, hosting sites in our Green Buildings Open House tour, submitting content for BuildingEnergy magazine, and serving on NESEA program and board committees.
I am grateful to Jamie Wolf for recently helping us to articulate something that we’ve known intuitively for a very long time: that the BuildingEnergy Conference is NESEA’s crown jewel, or the center of NESEA’s universe, but that it occurs only for 3 days/year in Boston. Jamie shared with me his vision for BE365, which makes the BuildingEnergy experience available to NESEA members every day of the year through various events, gatherings, online learning and other forums throughout the year.
I am grateful to lifetime NESEA member Bernice Radle, who at the ripe old age of 26 is rallying a group of NESEA member preservationists to plan a kick-ass Green Buildings Open House tour in Buffalo on October 13th, and who is trying to bring the rest of the NESEA community into the digital age with her incredible promotional savvy using twitter, facebook, blogging and Pinterest.
I am grateful to Marc Rosenbaum, one of our NESEA rock stars, who has partnered with us, and who has spent more than 100 hours to develop and help us launch a 10-week online course for the BuildingEnergy Masters Series, and who recently shared with me, “I could develop and market a course like this on my own. Yet what appeals to me about this arrangement is that I get to advance my personal mission of expanding our collective capabilities, while creating an income stream, and also give back to this organization that has been such a key factor in my success. However, it’s a business partnership, not a charity - NESEA has skin in the game just as I do.”
I am grateful to NESEA board member Kate Goldstein, who, although she is still a starving student, is digging deep for NESEA this year. Not only did she become a lifetime member – a great investment for somebody who’s still in her 20s – but she has also pledged a leadership gift in our annual fundraising appeal, because, in her words, “The diversity of NESEA’s membership is a gift for us who have not yet found our own path. NESEA is the shelter of our community.”
I am grateful to my staff – at least three of whom, despite being handed a salary freeze this year, have decided to invest some of their discretionary income into NESEA membership because they believe deeply in what we’re about here, and they consider themselves a part of this community.
I am grateful to Paul Eldrenkamp, who confided in me that one of the happiest days of his life was the day that he left his last NESEA board meeting in the mid-1990s. He went and sat in his car for a few minutes and let out a freedom cry that others may have heard even from inside the building. Paul shared that the board as a group (not its individual members) was so dysfunctional, and mired in the day to day operation of the organization, that he couldn’t wait to get out. Well, Paul is a testament to how things have changed for the better. This year, not only is he chairing the BuildingEnergy Conference, and bringing a ton of new talent into the organization through his vast network, but he’s also teaching a BuildingEnergy Masters Series class on Passive House online, and running for the NESEA board!
I am grateful to the 20 or so NESEA members – some long timers, some newbies – who are helping us experiment with and launch active online communities so that they can learn together how best to apply systems thinking in their practices and what are the elements of a generative economy. These communities will serve as a forum in which NESEA members can share with each other what’s working (and what’s not) in service of a more sustainable built environment. Based on what we learn from these communities of practice, we’ll launch others in the new year – including one on Deep Energy Retrofits, one on Zero Net Energy Buildings, and possibly even one on our topic tonight, the Pretty Good House.
These examples barely scratch the surface of all we’ve accomplished together over the past year. And all of this is happening in the worst building environment in 20 years.
In many ways, last year represented the “perfect storm.” Almost everything that could have gone wrong financially, did. NESEA’s membership numbers and Sustainable Green Pages listings continued their steady decline since the housing market crash in 2009. BuildingEnergy registration and exhibitor numbers declined, despite a whopping 97% of our attendees saying that they would recommend the conference to a colleague. We lost substantial donations from two longtime donors whose funding focus shifted and whose portfolios suffered at the hands of a lackluster economy.
We knew before the year even started that we were going to run a deficit in Fiscal Year 2012. We even budgeted for it. We invested heavily in staff, hiring a membership coordinator and a communications coordinator. We also invested in our infrastructure, launching a new website, supported by a new, more nimble database. We knew it would take time for these investments to pay off. Unfortunately, the deficit we ran was larger than anticipated.
NESEA’s reason for being is to advance the adoption of sustainable energy practices in the built environment. The rest of the industry is finally catching on as well.
Last year’s bottom line fails to tell the whole story. It doesn’t tell the story of the momentum we’re building, one practitioner at a time. It doesn’t tell the story of the quality of engagement within our membership, within the BuildingEnergy planning process, and at BE itself.
I truly believe that we’re planting the right seeds, and that if we continue to provide quality engagement experiences, the numbers will follow. I also know that we’ll continue to learn and adjust the plan as we go!
So I’m grateful. I’m invested in this organization and in this community, not just professionally, but also personally, as I complete my own deep energy retrofit and prepare to showcase my home on NESEA’s Green Building Open House tour, which will be held on October 13th throughout NESEA’s 10 states, from Maine all the way down to Delaware.
Now’s the time for you to invest as well. Invest in NESEA and in our future in a way that makes sense for you. If you’re not a member, join. If you are a member, consider donating or sponsoring above and beyond your membership contribution. Or give the gift of NESEA membership to a colleague to help grow our community.
If you’re a newcomer to our community, invest in your own professional development as you get to know us better. Enroll in one of our BuildingEnergy Masters Series courses and partake in high quality interactive educational content from the comfort of your home or office. Learn about zero net energy homes from Marc Rosenbaum, the man who’s probably engineered more of them than anybody else in the Northeast. Learn about Passive House from Mike Duclos and Paul Eldrenkamp, a member of the inaugural group of Passive House certified consultants in the U.S. Then connect with others in your class to share what you’re learning and create a community of practice that can meet in person at next year’s BuildingEnergy Conference.
Attend the Building Energy Conference, exhibit there, sponsor. Even better, help shape our content by joining the planning committee for the BuildingEnergy Conference. Register your most recent project for our Green Buildings Open House tour in October. Enter your best work in NESEA’s Zero Net Energy Building Award to compete for our annual $10,000 prize. Submit an article for publication in BuildingEnergy Magazine, our peer-reviewed journal by and for sustainable energy professionals in the Northeast.
Invest in the community that is building your knowledge base, your practice, your career, and a more sustainable built environment.
Before I close, I’d like to thank a few people without whom this meeting would not have happened. First, thank you to our committee of locals who advised us on all of the nuts and bolts decisions we needed to make – from the beautiful location we are in to the buildings we should include on the tours earlier today to the Pretty Good House speaking program tonight. Those committee members include Matt Holden, Steve Konstantino, Dan Kolbert, and Rick Renner, among many others.
Next, I’d like to thank our sponsors for tonight – Sparhawk Group, Maine Association of Building Energy Professionals, and Thorton Tomasetti Fore Solutions. And a special thanks to sponsors Kaplan Thompson Architects and Pinnacle Windows, who are hosting a party after tonight’s meeting at Grace, a beautifully restored church and restaurant with an awesome looking menu!
Huge thanks also to Phil Kaplan of Kaplan Thompson Architects for advocating in favor of holding the meeting here in Portland and for connecting us with all the folks here who could help make it happen.
And finally, thank you to Kelsey Hobson, our summer intern from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Kelsey came in at the beginning of the summer and flat out handled all the logistics for this meeting, with almost no guidance. She herded a group of benevolent but busy cats to score us this great location, and planned all of the building tours. She did such a great job that we decided to hire her permanently – or at least as permanently as she’ll have us. This is one NESEA emerging professional with a very bright future.
And now, I’d like to welcome to the stage NESEA board chair, James Petersen. James has been a huge champion of our work to “expand the choir,” and has supported these efforts personally by being a NESEA evangelist within his own professional network. James will share with you an update on where the board would like to see NESEA head, and on what your role might be in helping to create our future success.
This spring the first cohort of Building Energy Masters Series students completed the six-week Passive House training, taught by Paul Eldrenkamp and Mike Duclos. They got a phone call from the instructors on the first day of the class and received a packet with the text book and other NESEA-related materials, then worked their way through a series of videos, reading assignments, quizzes, and homework. Here’s what they said about the training:
So – a pretty good start, we think. This summer we’re working on integrating a discussion wall into the course page to promote more interaction within the course, and we’re also going to roll out progress trackers so the instructors can see who’s engaged and who’s not.
A revised and improved version of the Passive House Training will be available this fall, along with two new Building Energy Masters Series Offerings:
In parallel, we’re developing a certificate program to for the Building Energy Masters Series – our goal is to build a sustainable program that facilitates the dissemination of deep expertise. We’ll continue to keep the community informed, and always welcome volunteers or feedback. If this sounds interesting for any reason, let Mary or Travis know how you’d like to get involved.
Recently Fred Unger shared links to a couple of TED talks with NESEA’s BuildingEnergy13 Planning Committee. Here they are:
Peter Diamandis – Abundance Is Our Future
Paul Gilding – The Earth is Full
While the debate these two talks represents is a critical and fascinating one, I kept wondering “How do we really bring it home to the NESEA community at BE13 to make sure the questions Gilding and Diamandis are asking inform the way we think about our day-to-day work?”
We are certainly more than capable of being the clever and creative community that Peter Diamandis describes. It’s also true, on the other hand, that the Big Problems that Paul Gilding describes seem very real to a lot of us in the NESEA community. But the bottom line is that even the NESEA practitioners who are most pessimistic about resource depletion seem pretty eager to get up and get to work in the morning to solve problems for their clients, as far as I can tell. Maybe that’s because active engagement is a great antidote for despair—I certainly didn’t see any evidence of despair at BE12 this past March, only of active engagement.
Here’s what I think is the best way to have the Gilding-Diamandis debate at BE13: Make sure our content is accurate and reality-based; avoid confirmation bias in our selection of topics and speakers; focus on the areas where theory meets practice so that our theory stays grounded in marketplace realities and our practice is informed by a larger context that keeps it in the category of “solution” rather than “problem”. —Paul
I spent this morning on the job site of a high-performance home – a MacArthur Construction Company design-build project in Cambridge, MA. Mike Duclos was there to perform a third-party energy model for the home, evaluating it against the Passive House standard.
As a lowly business person, I was there to answer one question: Why Passive House?
Duncan MacArthur, founder of MacArthur Construction, is a pragmatic guy. He finds Passive House useful for re-framing conversations with mechanical engineers and clients:
I’m just glad somebody’s setting the bar extraordinarily high. It’s something to shoot for – sure, we usually end up backing off in certain places, but by starting the conversation with Passive House we’re ending up in a drastically different place than by trying to make incremental improvements over what was done in the past.
Mike Duclos, instructor for NESEA’s new Building Energy Masters Series Passive House training course, put it this way:
I started my career in technology – building high-tech products. [Holding up his cell phone] At that time nobody thought this was possible. Then somebody built the first one and it was a huge thing that looked like a brick. Now we have iPhones. I think something similar is happening with buildings, and in five years we’ll be in a dramatically different, and better place. Germany is already there – all we have to do is import.
My takeaway: Passive House is easier to understand as an outsider than LEED, or any of the other high-performance building standards. So if you’re committed to sustainable building, it may be the most useful tool available for framing conversations with clients and subcontractors in a way that steers the project in a successful direction. You can play good cop, while the strict, German standard plays bad cop. As a marketer, project manager, and business owner, I see tremendous value in having the right conversations and the power of language on your side. Having Passive House in your arsenal is a great investment for building professionals, even if you don’t get there with every (or any) project.
Thursday, March 8th saw the conclusion of BuildingEnergy 2012, and what a ride it was. We were extremely fortunate to have, in addition to an outstanding cast of speakers, volunteers and international collaborators, balmy weather for the conference. Speaking personally, this was my first BuildingEnergy, and it was simply an incredible experience. If you haven’t already read them, Jennifer, in her blog post, talks about post-BuildingEnergy “re-entry” and gives a shout-out to all the people who made this event so wonderful.
But that’s our take on it. What have other people been saying? Here’s a brief sample of some BuildingEnergy 12 feedback:
“I think this may have been the best NESEA BE conference ever.” John Abrams, South Mountain Company
“What an energetic, dedicated, amazing community! Thanks for all the hard work, organization and passion. This year’s conference again highlighted the remarkable fusion of idealism and informed practice that makes NESEA, and its members, exceptional and effective.”
David Foley
“Thanks to Robert and Paul, their dedicated Track and Session Chairs and special thanks to all the hard working staff and incredible legion of volunteers who pick up the pieces for us mere mortals.”
Joel Gordes
“It never stops! Thanks to all of you (all of us) for this perennial reminder of who we are. Jennifer, Mary, all of the staff and the un-thanked volunteers deserve great praise. They make us happy to ask ‘I am, are you?’”
Bill Stillinger, PV2
“Many thanks to Robert, Paul, Jennifer, Mary & the entire NESEA staff for pulling off another great NESEA experience & for making each one better than the last. The community building pieces as well as several other recent improvements will be studied & replicated (in some way) for future conferences. Thanks for doing so much of the work that will be used to build on for our future.
Thanks especially for making this a tribe that I am most proud to be a member of. I am, Are You?”
Marc Sternick, Dietz & Co. Architects
“May I join Marc in saying a huge thank you to Robert, Paul, Mary, Jennifer and all the staff. You made it look easy!”
Caitriona Cooke
“I have to add my thanks to Robert, Paul, the staff and the whole NESEA Community for a fabulous conference It was a true embarrassment of riches in the best way possible. “
Laura Notman
“For me, the conference as a whole was very much about beginning conversations and connections that will carry on well past the three-day event. I’m reinvigorated, full of new ideas, friends, colleagues, clients, and connections as a result of my time at the conference. I’m excited by the new opportunities that have grown out of this year’s experience.
This is my experience this year… as it has been for many years… Information, yes,… but even more so… a renewal of a sense of mindful, meaning-filled connection to others involved in the excitement and the challenges of sustaining the people and the planet.
A privilege and honor to share this journey with each of you…”
Bart Bales
“To create an elixir like BE, it takes a unique community of dedicated and passionate visionaries. As an attendee, I’m personally grateful to all of you for creating such an inspiring, thought provoking and enlightening conference.”
Jo Lee, Green Machine PR
“Congrats and thx to @NESEAed and the whole team for another exceptional Building Energy event #be12″ @EnergyCircle
“(BuildingEnergy) was amazing. Truly the center of cutting edge building efficiency. Looking forward to engaging everyone further about efficiency.” @475sam
What did you think of BuildingEnergy 12? Let us know in the comments below, or later in in the soon-to-be-released BuildingEnergy 12 survey.
In the meantime, let’s keep the energy going for BuildingEnergy 13 (no, it’s never too early to start planning for the next event.)
A few days from now, clean energy and building science professionals are gathering in Boston, at the NESEA Building Energy 2012 conference. For some it is an annual pilgrimage; for others it may be their first contact with this multi-disciplinary group.
This time around there is an extraordinary offering that I want you to know about: a one day workshop on the importance of thinking in systems.
The Secret Is In The System! The workshop of this name is scheduled for Tuesday March 6. It will be presented by two colleagues with deep experience in this area; Sara Schley and Linda Booth Sweeney.
Irrespective of your professional field, attending the workshop will expose you to a profound way to understand and approach complex problems. It’s a fitting lead-in to the Whole Systems In Action track of conference sessions to follow over the next two days, but it can provide insight into anyone’s circumstances; problems facing organizations, energy efficiency, building science, policy, security, finance, clean energy resource deployment, etc.
The workshop material can be useful to anyone who wants to get beneath the immediate, surface issues they face; to identify the leverage points that will effect the greatest positive change. By thinking in systems we’re able to analyze break-downs in small organizations such as design or construction firms just as effectively as problems on the macro scale, such as those that, like the BP oil spill, invoke “the tragedy of the commons.”
The Building Energy 2012 conference will have an array of important offerings from which to choose. I recommend this one.
Can’t wait for BuildingEnergy12? Neither could we.
Thankfully, one of our BE12 Gold Sponsors and NESEA Members, Renewable Sales, has volunteered to host a BE-caliber session at their showroom in Holliston, MA, February 16, 2012, starting at 5:30pm. RSVP here.
An evening of networking and expert information …
and it’s free! (And there will be food!)
The evening will feature a discussion “Understanding Risks and Rewards: A Conversation on Community Solar,” facilitated by The Cadmus Group, featuring a case study from the Town of Natick and from the City of Medford. MA Department of Energy Resources will speak to its solar programs (e.g., SolarizeMass with MassCEC, SunShot Program grant), as well as support that it can and has provided to Massachusetts municipalities.
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Erin Sweet, The Cadmus Group
Erin Sweet leads The Cadmus Group’s efforts to support local communities with their renewable energy projects. Since 2010, Ms. Sweet has provided owner’s agent technical assistance services to eight Massachusetts cities and towns on behalf of the state Department of Energy Resources. She has assembled lessons learned from Cadmus’ owner’s agent work into a blog for communities interested in renewable energy. Ms. Sweet has evaluated the costs and benefits of water utility renewable energy projects for the U.S. EPA, and created a roadmap to drive renewables development in South Carolina’s Central Midlands region. Ms. Sweet holds an M.A. in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts University, and degrees in microbiology and English from the University of Florida.
Meg Lusardi, MA Department of Energy Resources,
Green Communities Division
Meg is the Director for the Green Communities Division, the organization within the MA Department of Energy Resources that serves as the hub for all municipalities on all matters related to energy. Meg was tasked in August 2008 to launch the development and implementation of the Green Communities Designation and Grant Program, the landmark program for the Division, that has led to 86 municipalities in MA being designated Green Communities. Meg joined DOER in July 2005 and previously worked with the Renewable Energy team on all matters related to renewables development in MA. She previously served as the Chief of Operations for Project Hope, a non-profit in Dorchester, and as a Project Manager at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bob Bois, Environmental Compliance Officer, Town of Natick
Bob has worked in the environmental field on the public side for over 35 years. Presently, Bob is the Environmental Compliance Officer (ECO) for the Town of Natick – a position he’s held for the past 10 years. As the ECO for Natick, Bob is responsible for coordinating Town-wide compliance with all applicable federal and state environmental laws applicable to Town operations and plays a key role in implementing environmental stewardship and pollution prevention projects Town-wide. As Natick’s ECO, Bob has helped the Town achieve ISO 14001 certification for the environmental management system at its water treatment plant in 2007, secured designation from the state DOER as Green Community in May 2010, and helped negotiate two Power Purchase Agreements to install a 1.08 MW solar array system on the roof of six town buildings by the spring of 2012. Prior to working for Natick, Bob worked 25 years with the state DEP in various positions including the Acting Director for the Office of Enforcement. Bob has a BS in biology form Merrimack College and a MS in Engineering from Tufts University.
A representative from the City of Medford (to be confirmed)
With introductions from:
Kevin Price, CEO, Renewable Sales
Kevin Price is CEO of Renewable Sales of Holliston Massachusetts. Mr. Price bring 30 years of construction sector experience to his position, predominantly in the role of wholesale distributor of mechanical equipment. In 2008, he opened a small warehouse to service the fledgling solar market in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts. Since then, he has grown the company to keep pace with the fast expanding market. Renewable Sales now has 3 divisions; the original distribution company that recently expanded operations to a 20,000SF facility in Holliston, as well as two manufacturing divisions. In Dallas, Texas the company manufactures its American Choice PV modules. The third division, Constellation Solar Mounts, manufactures solar racking for commercial and utility scale projects.
Mr. Price is a native of Massachusetts and enjoys New England’s diverse cultural and seasonal offerings. Mr. Price supports a number of charitable organizations on a local and regional basis.
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Here is the essential information:
| What: NESEA invites you to “Understanding Risks and Rewards: A Conversation on Community Solar” presented by The Cadmus Group, and hosted by Renewable Sales Where: Renewable Sales, 35 Jeffrey Avenue, Holliston, MA 01746 When: Thursday, February 16th, 2012; 5:30 – 8:30pm RSVP: http://goo.gl/iKWtB – maximum 60 attendees – so do not delay! (and please let us know if you need to cancel) |
We hope to see you there!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me: rheldt@nesea.org or 413-774-6051 ext. 20
All photos by Matthew Cavanaugh Photography unless otherwise credited.
