The Vineyard Sustainable Energy Committee has reported an impressive 18% growth in the number of solar arrays on the island, with 1,127 currently installed. Nationally speaking, solar is now considered one of the fastest-growing sources of electricity - it's risen by a staggering 4,000 percent in merely over ten years!
The Vineyard Sustainable Energy Committee has reported 1,127 solar arrays currently installed on-Island, up 18 per cent from the beginning of 2020, but expensive grid upgrades stand to cast a shadow over the industry’s progress.
As Vineyard Wind breaks ground on the nation’s first industrial-scale offshore wind farm, global supply chain issues and rising commodities prices have stalled a second project.
At its Monday meeting, the Edgartown select board unanimously approved a request by energy committee chair Alan Strahler to allocate $132,000 of recently secured grant money toward a green community initiative that aims to increase overall energy savings and reduce the impact of climate change. Strahler said the town had been formally accepted into a […]
If an electric vehicle or hybrid vehicle owner is looking for a place to charge their ride on the Island, it isn’t too hard to find. “We recently compiled a list of public chargers, with a total of 30 charging ports. You can find them from Edgartown to Aquinnah,” Alan Strahler, a member of the […]