Hi All,
We did not get the grant for a comprehensive energy audit and policy review through Clean Air-Cool Planet. I'm wondering whether the socio-economic factors mentioned here and in the the announcement, may have hurt us in scoring. Hard to say. Very disappointing though, since I was led to believe that we were on the "fast track" because of our previous efforts.
Dave, an important piece in applying for the municipal money through the state will be an energy audit. Do we have money available anywhere to do one or would the geothermal vendor help us out?
I am also switching gears when it comes to the building other than Town Hall. I will talk with Mary Downes and see if we can get audits done through some of their funding, without impacting our request for funds for the geothermal "multi-zone" upgrade.
Please keep me up to date on your thoughts ...
Michelle
Subject: RE: Your question
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:54:18 -0400
From: sharpster@cleanair-coolplanet.org
To: mveasey@msn.com
Hi, Michelle,
Actually, that's a very difficult question about where an application might have fallen short, in this case. The Municipal Energy Assistance team had the challenge of considering a range of criteria and ensuring that communities representing diversity with regard to community size, geographical distribution, socio-economic factors, and previous efforts in community energy savings were represented in the pool of selected communities. Another factor considered was letters of support from different community stakeholders. Therefore, we had to choose among various deserving applications while also ensuring that we met a distribution of all of the factors mentioned.
As I mentioned before, we are keeping the applications of communities that were not selected in the first pool and hoping to reach more of them over the course of the project year. We will definitely be in communication if we find that we have the resources to include Atkinson once the first pool is moved forward.
Sarah Harpster
Clean Air-Cool Planet
Local Energy Committee Project Assistant
(603) 352-2172
-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Veasey [mailto:mveasey@msn.com]
Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 12:03 PM
To: Sarah Harpster
Subject: RE: Your question
Hi Sarah,
I'm part of the Atkinson Energy Committee. Could you tell me where we fell short on the application?
Michelle
Subject: Your question
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:00:52 -0400
From: sharpster@cleanair-coolplanet.org
To: mveasey@msn.com
Hello!
I am sorry for not getting back to your e-mail from last week. You were asking about announcements for the MEAP program. I didn't see which town you are inquiring from. However, I can tell you that we have selected our initial group of towns to begin the MEAP program and the are listed at nhenergy.org. Those towns that have not been selected at this time are all still very much under consideration to receive our support as we complete our work with the initial group of towns and free up our staff resources to work with more of the MEAP applicants. Please let me know if you have more questions. Thanks!
Sarah Harpster
Clean Air-Cool Planet
Local Energy Committee Project Assistant
(603) 352-2172
