Rewiring America has produced a free Go Electric guide to help residents remove fossil fuels from their lives. (Think heat pumps, EVs, rooftop solar, and induction stoves.) Covered in the guide is information on what to electrify, how to prepare … Read More
Category Archives: Energy
Thursday, July 13 at 12pm. Online. You’re thinking about solar. What’s holding you back? Please join Green Energy Consumers Alliance (GECA) at this webinar for a conversation with EnergySage Solar Advisor Ben Sonnega. EnergySage is an excellent platform that makes … Read More
Shave the Peak is a program designed by Green Energy Consumers Alliance to inform people, via text and email alerts, how and when to reduce power use on days when demand for electricity is significantly higher than usual or average. … Read More
The following blog post was originally posted on the Green Energy Consumers Alliance website by Larry Chretien & Mikaela Hondros-McCarthy on Tuesday, May 09, 2023. Regular readers of our blogs know where we stand on options consumers have for receiving … Read More
Attorney General Andrea Campbell wants consumers who buy electricity on the competitive supply market to know they have collectively overpaid by $525 million. In January 2023, Cambell announced her support to ban the companies like Clean Choice Energy from doing … Read More
Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at 7pm. Room 207 of Newton City Hall (1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton) and online. Under the “Ten Communities Act”, the City of Newton is one of the ten communities selected by the MA Legislature to participate … Read More
Mayor Ruthann Fuller has just signed a new two-year Newton Power Choice contract for Newton electricity customers. The new contract will provide electricity that is 95% from renewable sources, raising the percentage from standard of 84% under the current contract. … Read More
A NetGeo system is a street-segment system of networked ground-source heat pumps. There is a loop of pipe filled with pure water (no glycol added) running up and down the street in the gas utility’s right of way, with service … Read More
Newton has many hundreds of unrepaired gas leaks. Gas can cause explosions and fires, pollutes our air indoors and out, kills our trees and drives climate change. And, the utilities charge ratepayers for the lost gas. We all can help … Read More
Wednesday, May 10 from 1-2pm. Massachusetts State House, Rm 428. Join Mothers Out Front at the MA State House to show support for the Future of Clean Heat briefing, Senator Cynthia Creem’s bill on clean energy transformation. Please email info.ma.newton@mothersoutfront.org … Read More
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