Foxboro, MA – December 13, 2016 ‐ Energy New England, LLC (ENE), President & CEO John G. Tzimorangas announced today that eleven (11) of its ENE Strategies customers received a combined total of $1.6M in grant awards at the formal announcement of the LED Streetlight Rapid Conversion Grant Program awards held at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke, MA.
“We applaud the Baker-Polito Administration for their commitment to our Municipal Light Plant (MLP) communities,” said John Tzimorangas, President and Chief Executive Officer of Energy New England, LLC. “The assistance and outreach by DOER has resulted in a true partnership with the MLP community and we at Energy New England are proud to be coordinating those efforts for our constituents. Our communities will be helping the Commonwealth achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions because of this outstanding program”.
ENE clients and their awards included:
| Municipal | Grant $ | |
| Concord Municipal Light Plant | $ | 75,211 |
| Danvers Electric Division | $ | 313,233 |
| Georgetown Municipal Light Department | $ | 94,571 |
| Groveland Municipal Light Department | $ | 49,037 |
| Hingham Municipal Light Plant | $ | 216,198 |
| Hudson Light and Power Department | $ | 158,115 |
| Merrimac Municipal Light Department | $ | 35,008 |
| Middleborough Gas & Electric Department (Middleborough) | $ | 98,821 |
| Middleborough Gas & Electric Department (Lakeville) | $ | 4,884 |
| Middleton Municipal Light Department | $ | 39,976 |
| North Attleborough Electric Department | $ | 236,947 |
| Norwood Municipal Light Department | $ | 317,985 |
| Total Grant Dollars Received | $ | 1,639,986 |
The LED streetlights will provide a number of advantages to municipalities including improved visibility, decreased energy consumption, lower maintenance requirements, a reduction in light pollution and the ability to offer enhanced lighting controls.
About ENE – Energy New England, LLC (www.ene.org) is a leading provider of wholesale and retail energy services. The company conducts more than $300M in structured transactions annually, manages 1,100 MWs of demand and 550 MW of generation, and has also grown to become the leading provider of conservation and efficiency services for the public power community in the region. The company’s customer base has grown exponentially over the past few years. Its comprehensive portfolio includes power supply and risk management services, energy and water conservation services, generating asset management, energy brokering, renewable energy solutions, lobbying and legislative advisory services. Energy New England has customers situated throughout New England as well as other power pools. The company works with an increasing number of utilities, independent power producers, industrial, commercial and institutional facilities, municipalities and non‐profits.
About ENE Strategies – ENE Strategies is a subsidiary of Energy New England, LLC.
ENE Strategies was established in 2015 to provide local, state and federal government relations assistance to select clients who could benefit from ENE Strategies long standing strong relationships with appointed, elected and municipal and state professionals through lobbying or local advisory assistance.
