“PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city is still looking at what it would take to create a new micro-grid for energy in the city’s downtown.
Supported by a $75,000 states grant, a feasibility study has been ongoing to create the grid that would connect key buildings, including the Fire Department, Berkshire Medical Center, the senior center and senior housing units, and downtown businesses to power in case of an emergency.
And, it will increase the capacity for renewable energy sources.
But that is only one step the city has taken in recent years around the issue of energy. The city changed all of its streetlights to LED, joined a municipal aggregation program to competitively bid energy sources for residents and businesses to lower costs and get more from renewable sources and, in 2017, turned on a new 2.9-megawatt solar array built on a former capped landfill.”
Read more of this iBerkshires article; Pittsfield’s Renewable Energy Work Highlighted, published July 30, 2019.
