Cape & Islands Energy Information Clearinghouse

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

The Hummer/Photo Source:Winnepeg Luxury Cars   Canal Electric Plant/Photo Source: Richard Judge   Sinking of the Argo Merchant/Photo Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration   Solar Flare/Photo Source: National Optical Astronomy Observatory   Race Point Photovoltaic Installation/Photo Source: Cape Cod Chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation   Woods Hole Research Center Ordway Campus Green Building Showcase/Photo Source: Cape Cod Center for Sustainability   Woods Hole Research Center Ordway Campus Green Building Showcase/Photo Source: Cape Cod Center for Sustainability   Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority's Propane-Fueled Bus/Photo Source: Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority
The energy present Tools for Managing the Transition The Energy Future

 

Community Snapshot: Sandwich

Significant Projects

The Town of ...

Energy Decision Makers

The town's website is available here. 

Sandwich has a Energy Committee.

Sandwich Energy Committe Members:

Eric Nelson - Chair
Damien Houlihan - Vice Chair
Anna Burroughs-Merrill - Clerk
Kevin Burgess
Thomas Dougherty
Robert Gottsche
Laura Gregorio-Tanguilig
Charles Kleekamp
Sarah Murray
Kathleen Yetman
Selectmen Ex Officio: Randy Hunt

Top

Energy Consumption

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

Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Residential 74,744,670 80,821,698 78,381,290 79,713,464 78,798,347
Commercial / Industrial 56,576,225 51,034,122 49,824,911 51,392,650 58,686,941
Street Lighting 121,090 118,883 116,264 120,497 119,942

Top

Energy Efficiency


The Cape Light Compact (CLC) tracks information on all its energy efficiency programs on a town-by-town basis. For Sandwich , the Cape Light Compact efficiency report shows an annual kWh savings of 970,042 kWh in 2008 as a result of the various CLC energy efficiency programs.

Top

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 Sandwich from an increasing number of sites.

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

Top

Wind Energy Production Wind

At the end of 2007, Sandwich had no net metered wind energy production.

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.

Top

Snapshots of Other Communities

Cape Cod

| Barnstable | Bourne | Brewster | Chatham | Dennis | Eastham | Falmouth | Harwich | Mashpee | Orleans | Provincetown | 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.

This page was last updated Tuesday March 31, 2009

Top


CIRenew Logo
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
__