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S UMMER 2013 A newsletter for Concord Municipal Light Plant’s business customers

HIGH EFFICIENCY LIGHTING PROGRAM Don’t miss out on the savings If you haven’t yet taken advantage more through lower demand charges. of Concord Light’s High Efficiency Some will also see lower maintenance High-speed Internet Lighting Program, you may be costs, because more modern lighting service missing out on substantial savings. often needs to be replaced less frequently. Concord Light will soon The program offers rebates for begin to offer high- lighting efficiency upgrade projects Congratulations to each of these speed Internet service that cut electric bills without inaugural participants in the High to our business sacrificing lighting levels. In fact, Efficiency Lighting Program: 30 customers. If your most projects result in improved Monument Square; business is considering lighting. Trails End Café and an Internet service During the first year Corner Store; Millbrook installation or upgrade, of the program, 12 Tarry Condominium Association; please call or visit our local businesses and Concord Chair Studio; Middlesex office for a consultation organizations earned rebates totaling School; Draper Labs; Nashoba Brook and estimate. $68,000, and that’s just the beginning Bakery; Dane, Brady & Haydon, of the savings. The 12 projects are LLP/Spaulding Management; Newbury Court; Beede Center; Save the date for our lowering electricity use by a total of Lexington Eye Associates, and Open House 750,000+ kilowatt-hours a year— comparable to the median annual Domino Veterinary Hospital. Save Saturday, energy use of 91 local homes. We can help your business or September 28 for While all 12 businesses are saving organization save energy and money, Concord Light’s Open too. Visit concordma.gov/cmlp to House, to be held at our by buying fewer kilowatt-hours, six learn more about our High Efficiency Operations Center, 1175 will reduce their electric bills even Lighting Program. Elm St. We’re planning food and fun for all ages as we celebrate Substation project will increase capacity the power of local Plans are underway to upgrade Substation 219, service during Public located in the Forest Ridge Road area in West Power Week. The event Concord, in order to keep up with area demand for will feature everything electricity. The project will increase the substation’s from bucket truck rides existing capacity by about 10% to 60 megawatts, to equipment with the ability to expand up to 75 megawatts. demonstrations and information on energy We are now acquiring the materials needed to This West Concord substation will efficiency. See you begin construction, which is scheduled to begin undergo improvements to increase its capacity. there! this fall when electric demand is lowest. The next major milestone will be delivery of two individual $1 million transformers that weigh approximately 60 tons empty and 110 tons fully assembled. They will be transported by rail from Washington, Missouri to Concord, and then offloaded to a truck to reach Forest Ridge Road. Dale Cronan retires after 17 years Dale Cronan is retiring August 23 after 17 years in his second career as Heat for less with Concord Light’s Assistant Director. His first career was at Boston Edison, an ETS experience that stands in stark contrast to his work in Concord. Keep your business “At Edison, I interfaced with customers in 40 cities and towns, and in 30+ warm for less this years there, I don’t recall one customer ever saying ‘we’re so lucky to have winter with electric Boston Edison as our utility’,” he said. “I can’t tell thermal storage you how many times—unsolicited—I’ve heard that (ETS) heat. Whether about Concord Light.” used as a central That difference, he said, is what made his time here furnace or as a so rewarding. “Service is the stronghold of public booster unit, ETS power. It’s so much more customer-driven here. delivers all-day There’s no comparison, none whatsoever.” comfort at less cost Dale Cronan Concord Light’s customer focus offered Cronan than oil or natural many ways to benefit customers over the years, including serving on the gas because it Board of Directors for the Public Utilities Risk Management Association to qualifies for a low improve the way insurance is purchased, changing the vendor that helps off-peak electric rate. manage Concord’s wholesale energy assets, and working to promote energy Concord Light also offers installation conservation and load management. He even wrote a history of Concord incentives. For Light for its Centennial in 1998. details call Carole He is particularly proud of the ETS—electric thermal storage—program, Hilton at 978-318- which now has 100+ local homes heating with off-peak power. At his 3158. suggestion, Concord Light’s office building is heated entirely by ETS units. “Concord has really been a great place to work. The employees at Help hold down the Concord Light, the other Town employees and especially our customers have peak made my time here a pleasurable and memorable experience,” he said. “I Help us hold down shall remember it well.” summer peak demand and costs by New warehouse space under construction joining Concord Concord Light is building a new project staging. An overhead crane is Light's Google Group warehouse space at the Operations also part of the design, to allow for (CMLP-CAP). Join the Center at 1175 Elm St. The space more efficient loading and unloading group to get an email when peak demand will provide of materials such is predicted so you 7,000+ square as transformers can voluntarily feet of secured and wire reels reduce your electric storage space onto work use. Send an email and allow vehicles. Four with the subject and more overhead doors body blank to Cmlp- organization will allow Improvements are underway at Concord Light’s warehouse. cap+subscribe@ for both vehicle passage googlegroups.com. electrical and telecommunications and provide shelter for line crews to stock and equipment. perform work out of the elements. The space will include shelving for Construction is set for completion in storage and open floor space for early September.

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