Green Energy Committee

The Lincoln Green Energy Committee met virtually to discuss potential future options for the town's Lincoln Green Energy Choice program, continuing a March 19 discussion. The committee identified three sub-issues for consideration: criteria for choosing a new program, substantive options for a new

Green Energy Committee explores alternatives to renewable energy credits. The committee heard from Paul Gromer of Peregrine Group that federal offshore wind delays have made Class 1 renewable energy certificate purchases less effective at driving new clean energy investment. Members reached

Green Energy Committee approves prior minutes, skips embodied carbon comments to ICC. The committee voted unanimously to decline submitting comments to the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding embodied carbon standards, determining that changed ICC rules have eliminated municipal voting rights

Green Energy Committee greenlights rate publicity and state battery storage grant bid. Committee members Gray, Kern, and Sullivan will draft materials comparing Lincoln Green Energy Choice rates favorably to Eversource's latest residential offerings for publication in the town newsletter and Select