Cape & Islands Energy Information Clearinghouse

A Community Resource Developed Through The Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative

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Community Snapshot: Bourne

Significant Projects

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Energy Decision Makers

The town's website is available here. 

Bourne has a Selectmen's Alternative Energy Advisory Committee.

Members

Name Term Ends
Jonathan E. Aborn June 30, 2009
Virginia Buckley June 30, 2009
Elizabeth Caporelli June 30, 2009
Thomas Gray Curtis, Jr. June 30, 2009
Gene D'Amaddio June 30, 2009
Alan H. Daniels June 30, 2009
George O. Jenkins June 30, 2009
Allyson Bizer Knox June 30, 2009
Paul O'Keefe June 30, 2009
Robert E. Schofield June 30, 2009

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Energy Consumption

NStar provides power delivery services to all Bourne electricity consumers. The table and charts below depict electricity consumption in (in kWh) in Bourne from 2003 to 2007 and show the types of usage.  The information is provided courtesy of NSTAR.

Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Residential 103,230,056 111,227,269 111,261,028 109,135,161 108,587,674
Commercial / Industrial 63,554,624 65,970,640 64,116,490 67,552,486 65,340,231
Street Lighting 570,995 585,273 584,518 586,097 585,745

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Energy Efficiency


The Cape Light Compact (CLC) tracks information on all its energy efficiency programs on a town-by-town basis. For Bourne, the Cape Light Compact efficiency report shows an annual kWh savings of 896,863 kWh in 2008 as a result of the various CLC energy efficiency programs.

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Renewable Energy

The production data below is based on information from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) collected in support of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). RECs are tradable environmental commodities in the United States and represent proof that a specified amount of electricity was generated from an eligible renewable energy resource. Photovoltaic and wind energy producers that do not participate in the RECs program are not represented in the data.  The information is valid as of the end of 2007.

Photovoltaic Energy Production Solar PV

The charts below show a growing amount of photovoltaic energy being produced within Bourne from an increasing number of sites.

Click here to review photovoltaic energy production for all towns on the Cape & Islands..

As part of the Cape Light Compact's "Solarize Our Schools!" campaign, a 2kW solar photovoltaic (PV) systems was installed at the Bourne Middle School. The solar panel at the school shows the daily, weekly, and monthly solar panel performance.

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School

A 2.400 KWdc, 2.160 KWac solar array, installed at the Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School, is shown at the right (image courtesy of the Renewable Energy Trust of the Massachusetts Technology Cooperative.  Commissioned in June 2005, the daily output of this installation is available here.

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Wind Energy Production Wind

The charts below shows a growing amount of wind energy being produced within Harwich from an increasing number of sites.

Municipal Wind Turbines

Click here to review wind energy production for all towns on the Cape & Islands.

For an overview of wind energy on the Cape & Islands, click here.

For more information on wind projects in other communities, click here.

For the status of community wind projects in other towns, click here.

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Snapshots of Other Communities

Cape Cod

| Barnstable | Brewster | Chatham | Dennis | Eastham | Falmouth | Harwich | Mashpee | Orleans | Provincetown | Sandwich | Truro | Wellfleet | Yarmouth |

Martha's Vineyard

For information on the energy situation on Martha's Vineyard, click here

| Aquinnah | Chilmark | Edgartown | Oak Bluffs | Tisbury | West Tisbury |

Nantucket

| Nantucket |

Feedback

Information about renewable energy developments is constantly changing. Please send feedback if you have corrections, updates, or comments for this page please . Suggesstions for additional types of data, information, and graphics that might be delivered through this website would also be appreciated.

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This website is being developed through the Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative (CIRenew). Its framework was created under a community planning grant award from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC). The Clearinghouse provides a central location for the collection, classification, and distribution of data, information, and tools addressing energy supply and use in the Cape & Islands region, both now and in the future.
  • Project management and content development: Chris Powicki, Water Energy & Ecology Information Services
  • Web design/development and content development: Dick Elkin
  • Graphic design: Elizabeth Hooper, Hooper Design
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