[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Massachusetts to evaluate military bases for renewable energy projects

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military reservation goes green with solar energy

 

By George Brennan

Cape Cod Times (MA)

January 18, 2013

 

AIR STATION CAPE COD - By the end of this year, the 102nd Intelligence Wing expects to add a 6-megawatt solar array to the growing list of renewable energy sources at the Massachusetts Military Reservation.

 

And during the next year, the state will pay $1.5 million to audit energy efficiencies at the Upper Cape base and five other military installations across the state, Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray announced during an event Thursday inside the Coast Guard's freshly minted hangar, which is heated with an energy-saving geothermal unit.

 

"There are certainly things that are going on here, the turbines, the work that's been done to date, that I think are leaders," Murray said during a stop at the capped landfill where solar panels are planned. "I think there's a lot we can learn and build upon. This is certainly a leader, and we want to make sure that continues."

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For the entire article, see

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130118/NEWS/301180327

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