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At our recent Winter Hill Neighborhood Association annual organizational meeting, we decided that we should have some meetings with the typical agendas, some events that are purely social, and some events that might be kind of a hybrid. The hybrid meeting might be a quick update on local matters of interest or time-sensitive nature, but mostly the meeting would be organized around a theme that neighbors might want to learn about, or discuss, or share ideas on. 

Our first theme meeting, Sustainability, will be February 5 2020, at the
St. Polycarp community room, 6:30-8:30pm.

Future meetings might be on gardening, history, or small business, and more--we are open to more suggestions on this!

Our pitch to you--join us to discuss ideas that we have used ourselves, and that experts recommend, for increasing our local sustainability efforts for everyone. We'll have information from the city as well as from homeowners who have put these things into practice. Larry Yu, a member of the Somerville Climate Commission; Mary Mangan, formerly Solar Coach for Solarize Somerville; and Monte Allen, realtor with deep knowledge of the local property stock, have organized the discussion.

Making Winter Hill homes more sustainable 

Somerville has a 30-year goal to be carbon neutral – and every home has a part to play. The good news is that making your home more sustainable can also save you money and lead to a more comfortable home. Let’s have an open conversation about the baby steps and giant leaps that Winter Hill renters, condo owners and homeowners can take to be part of Somerville’s carbon-neutral future.

Edit to add 2 data sets.
1. Look at our daily use of energy sources for our grid. 
https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts
2.  Our top challenge in Somerville is transportation and housing. https://coolclimate.org/maps
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Although the Solarize program was a limited time, I still get questions from people who know I was involved with it and am a solar home owner myself. 

At our last Winter Hill Neighborhood meeting, it came up again. So I thought I'd create a post with the link I want to share with people about this. 

I am often asked about my installer: we went with
SunBug, and we are very happy with the system 4+ years later. Everything they estimated about our production is totally still on track, and we remain pleased with the physical installation.

The city program used
Solar Flair, another MA company. These folks know our city well now after 100 installations, and understand our permitting and inspection folks. I hear people were happy with them as well. 

One interesting data set for people researching this issue: the MA state organization that tracks "clean energy" tech and programs is the Mass-CEC. They keep a list of all the installations and their cost. So you can see which installers worked in which towns, what the costs were, and so on. Now--keep in mind costs may vary as people had Solarize programs running. or they needed attic structural stuff that might have been in the billing. But at least it's a ballpark of costs and vendors that you can investigate. 

Access the huge spreadsheet of MA installations here: 
https://www.masscec.com/public-records-requests 

On that page, scroll down to "PV in PTS" link. This is an huge excel spreadsheet you can explore. 

And for those of you who are data nerds and want to know how our New England electricity is generated every day, check this out. That mountain of natural gas we use each day... sigh. 
https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts .

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