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Thursday, April 15, 2021 - 9:12 am
BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
CANTON The village’s Sustainability Committee recently hosted a presentation for the public on community choice solar programs at their online Zoom meeting recently.
Jeff Domanski, community choice aggregation (community solar) specialist, of Hudson Valley Energy, talked about how such programs might fit with Canton’s overall sustainability goals at the April 6 meeting.
The village, like other local municipalities including the Town of Potsdam, is researching ways and companies to set up community choice aggregation to allow local residents to participate in what is essentially a buyers club for renewably generated electricity. Through the program, municipalities contract with companies which handle the administrative side of the buyer’s club on behalf of the town, managing bids and contracts for energy purchases and working with community solar suppliers and National Grid, a
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