For those considering new home heating or cooling systems, HeatSmart Carlisle/Concord/Lincoln is running a “Meet the Installer” event on Monday, May 7 at 7 p.m. at Concord’s First Parish Church in Concord (10 Lexington Rd., Concord). HeatSmart will also have three open houses to showcase each heating technology:
- Ground-source heat pumps — Saturday, May 19, 2–4 p.m. in Concord
- Modern wood pellet heating — Saturday May 19, 3-5 p.m. in Winchester
- Air-source heat pumps — Sunday, May 20, 2–4 p.m. in Concord
Lincoln’s HeatSmart coaches are John Snell and Belinda Gingrich (HeatSmartLincoln@gmail.com). To register for an open house and get locations, go to HeatSmartCCL.org.
HeatSmart CCL is a community-based clean heating and cooling initiative to help residents and businesses lower their energy bills, improve comfort, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Similar to the Solarize campaign, HeatSmart is a grassroots program driven by volunteers in the three towns.
Lincoln added 15 solar photovoltaic (PV) systems for a total of 107.1 kW and 10 solar hot water systems for a total of 29 kW in the recently concluded Solarize Mass in Lincoln, Sudbury and Wayland (LSW) campaign. The towns selected SolarFlair and New England Solar Hot Water as installers through a competitive bid process and ran a promotion that ran from August 2017 through February 2018, including a month-long extension due to popular demand.
The three Solarize LSW towns added 53 solar PV systems for a total capacity of 407 kW, including 11 systems for 75.9 kW in Sudbury and 27 systems for 224 kW inWayland. For solar hot water, the towns contracted 27 systems for 2,150 square feet of solar collectors for an equivalent of 84 kW. This includes two systems in Sudbury for 8 kW and 15 in Wayland 15 for 7 kW. Lincoln more than doubled its solar hot water infrastructure, adding 10 new systems for a total of 16.
This was the second round of Solarize Mass for the three towns. In 2012, the towns added 137 solar PV systems.
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