NH Community Energy Project
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Welcome
NHEnergy.org was created to provide a gateway to information and resources that promote local energy solutions. It is intended to empower NH's folks on energy committees, in municipalities and schools, and in their businesses and homes to tackle the complexities of reducing our reliance on fossil fuel energy. The sections to the left are provided to organize information so that users can learn, edit, and update the content for sharing with one another.
Getting Started on Your Local Energy Projects
We have a few suggestions for learning about NH's energy landscape, forming a Local Energy Committee or Commission or helping to lead energy projects in YOUR community.
- Review NH Handbook on Energy Efficiency and Climate Change - Volume I and Volume II
- Visit and add entries to current events page about upcoming activities and the latests news from the energy committees.
- Also, please visit our new Calendar.
- WARNING!!: We have now implemented a spam blacklist and it has cut the spam by 90%, we will continue to shut down the rest without ending our policy of anyone can post - except spammers. We will no longer be allowing anonymous edits - all editors will have to register as a result of increased spamming.
Important Announcements
Local Energy Solutions Conference 2012
The Fourth Annual Local Energy Solutions (LES) Conference took place on Saturday, March 31st at Merrimack Valley High School in Penacook, NH. Brought to you by the New Hampshire Local Energy Working Group, the LES conference provided critical resources for local governments and school districts across the state.
View PDFs of conference presentations here.
Who We Are
First there was the Carbon Coalition and the NH Climate Change Resolution. Adopted by 164 Towns in New Hampshire, the resolution calls for action and the creation of local energy committees.
The New Hampshire Community Energy Project, www.nhenergy.org, is a project devoted to the objective distribution and sharing of information. Germinating during the series of statewide sessions for local energy committees, this idea began to take form during the meetings as discussion focused on how to keep everyone informed. The decision to pursue this effort arose from the first meeting of the Rockingham/Strafford Energy Committee Alliance.
This is a grassroots effort reflecting our belief that this issue can and will be solved from the ground up. We are not, and will never be, part of the government. While some may work for the government, this effort is a personal passion and based on the freedom of speech and exchange of ideas. We will, however, accept funds from the government to support these efforts.
As a response to the creation of over 90 local energy committees in 2007-2008, the NH Local Energy Committee Working Group was formed by interested volunteers from Local Energy Committees, nonprofits, state & federal agencies, planning commissions, businesses and citizen groups to help facilitate the formation and work of each of the local energy committees.
The mission of the Local Energy Committee Working Group (LEC WG) was to provide collaborative guidance and technical support to New Hampshire Local Energy Committees seeking to reduce energy use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions within their communities.
In 2010-2011 the LEC WG assessed its work and the needs of local communities to address complex energy issues as well as its relationship to other state initiatives, such as the Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy Board of the NH Public Utilities Commission and its subcommittees. In an effort to serve the needs for support, guidance and resource of Local Energy Committees, Municipalities & Schools in NH, the LEC WG has continued to evolve; now into the Local Energy Working Group. Visit the LEWG webpages - Local Energy Working Group. For more information on the LEWG or to learn how you can lend a hand contact jdundorf at Cleanair-Coolplanet.org
New Hampshire Communities (and others)
The New Hampshire Communities link will take you to a page indicating Cities and Towns throughout New Hampshire who have made a choice to take action. To find out more information on what these communities are currently doing and how you can get involved simply click on the desired community.
We have also added links on the community page to websites for other communities outside the Granite State to provide examples, information, and exposure to what other communities are working on - some of these communities are doing some great work, check them out.
Overview of NH's Energy Landscape
Using & Adding to NHENERGY.ORG
Contacts
If you want to change this page, you must email one of the three below - this page is locked to prevent spam. Sorry, but one bad apple...
wiki bureaucrats: jdundorf at cleanair-coolplanet.org
