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Renewable Energy
Mission: Expand the use Renewable/Clean Energy in Edgewater and Andersonville
The Renewable Energy team and volunteers will:
Help hasten the clean energy economy »
Why: Outdated policies governing electric utilities don’t fairly value clean energy, and polluters have had free license to pollute.
How: Help overhaul obsolete rules that restrict the new energy market, while supporting and defending EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Support public officials and private groups that are working to introduce policies that allow clean energy to flourish.
Ongoing Actions to Suport Renewable Energy Use
1. Solar Community Loans for Edgewater: 2017(Seamus Fitzgerald, Project Lead) The Overhead Project Solar Development, LLC is an independent solar financing company that seeks federally registered 501(c)(3)s in the Edgewater community to partner with. There is no cost to the partner nonprofit and 100% of the profit generated from purchased electricity will be donated to the Edgewater community. The partner non profit must own the building and plan to stay there for at least 20 years.
Breaking News: April, 2017: The Edgewater Historical Society has signed a contract with the Overhead Project Solar LLC to install a 7KW, $30,000 system that OHPSD will fund. EHS would then pay for generated electricity through a power purchase agreement. Savings are measured and reported monthly by the utility (ComEd). The loan has no annual interest charged. It is expected to take around 15 years for the initial investment to be recouped from the loan. Then the solar array is fully owned by them & all savings from solar would belong to EHS. (The OHPSD pool would use the amount of the repaid loan to continue to roll over to new solar projects.)
Additionally, home owners looking to install solar power projects are encouraged to reach out to Seamus for information, installer contacts, and funding requests. For more information contact: seamus@overheadproject.org Cell: 414 403 3930
2. Google Map EESP maintains the data base of renewable energy installations. Map may be used for site tours. http://goo.gl/maps/NEHR6
3. Green Business We work with chambers, businesses and local universities to expand Green Business practices that include Renewable Energy
Nationally - Business Momentum is building for renewables
The Environmental Defense Fund wrote in Fall 2015: Amazon, DuPont, Equinix, Etsy, Intuit, Microsoft, Sealed Air, Starbucks, and Starwood all publicly signed onto the WWF and WRI Buyer’s Principles initiative that aims to make renewable energy easier for companies to procure at a large-scale. These companies join 32 other leading companies, in all representing a demand of more than 30 million MWh of renewable energy.
Also, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Inc., Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, Starbucks, Steelcase, Voya Financial, and Walmart joined RE100, pledging to source 100% of their electricity from renewable energy to reduce CO2 emissions and seize the business benefits.
RE100 is an ambitious global campaign led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, to engage, support and showcase influential businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity. When RE100 was launched at Climate Week NYC 2014, there were 13 original corporate partners. By 2015, 36 major businesses from around the world have joined the campaign, including: IKEA Group, Swiss Re, BT Group, Formula E, H&M, KPN, Nestlé, Philips, RELX Group, J. Safra Sarasin, Unilever and YOOX Group, UBS, and Royal DSM. Subsequent years saw more businesses join the campaign.
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Committee Members of Renewable Energy plan
Members Name
Chair/Solar Loan Project Leader Seamus Fizgerald
Member Tom Murphy
Member Anne Comeau
The Renewable Energy team and volunteers will:
- Host neighborhood meetings and educational presentations on the benefits vs. cost of renewable energy: solar, wind, geothermal etc.
- Work with private foundations and public entities to legally establish a pool of "buying power" or circulating loan funds to assist owners in purchase & installation of renewable energy systems.
- Recruit support of public officials, universities and industry to develop affordable, environmentally friendly renewable energy grids for homeowners and businesses.
- Explore the establishment of an independent renewable energy back up power system in case of unexpected power outages locally or citywide
Help hasten the clean energy economy »
Why: Outdated policies governing electric utilities don’t fairly value clean energy, and polluters have had free license to pollute.
How: Help overhaul obsolete rules that restrict the new energy market, while supporting and defending EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Support public officials and private groups that are working to introduce policies that allow clean energy to flourish.
Ongoing Actions to Suport Renewable Energy Use
1. Solar Community Loans for Edgewater: 2017(Seamus Fitzgerald, Project Lead) The Overhead Project Solar Development, LLC is an independent solar financing company that seeks federally registered 501(c)(3)s in the Edgewater community to partner with. There is no cost to the partner nonprofit and 100% of the profit generated from purchased electricity will be donated to the Edgewater community. The partner non profit must own the building and plan to stay there for at least 20 years.
Breaking News: April, 2017: The Edgewater Historical Society has signed a contract with the Overhead Project Solar LLC to install a 7KW, $30,000 system that OHPSD will fund. EHS would then pay for generated electricity through a power purchase agreement. Savings are measured and reported monthly by the utility (ComEd). The loan has no annual interest charged. It is expected to take around 15 years for the initial investment to be recouped from the loan. Then the solar array is fully owned by them & all savings from solar would belong to EHS. (The OHPSD pool would use the amount of the repaid loan to continue to roll over to new solar projects.)
Additionally, home owners looking to install solar power projects are encouraged to reach out to Seamus for information, installer contacts, and funding requests. For more information contact: seamus@overheadproject.org Cell: 414 403 3930
2. Google Map EESP maintains the data base of renewable energy installations. Map may be used for site tours. http://goo.gl/maps/NEHR6
3. Green Business We work with chambers, businesses and local universities to expand Green Business practices that include Renewable Energy
- Green Business development: In 2014 Heartland Medical Center at 1301 W. Devon opened. Platinum LEED level with Geothermal wells installed The same developer is working on another Devon Avenue LEED certified project.
- Uncommon Ground is in the preliminary stages of planning sustainable building on the areas now used for parking.
Nationally - Business Momentum is building for renewables
The Environmental Defense Fund wrote in Fall 2015: Amazon, DuPont, Equinix, Etsy, Intuit, Microsoft, Sealed Air, Starbucks, and Starwood all publicly signed onto the WWF and WRI Buyer’s Principles initiative that aims to make renewable energy easier for companies to procure at a large-scale. These companies join 32 other leading companies, in all representing a demand of more than 30 million MWh of renewable energy.
Also, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Inc., Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, Starbucks, Steelcase, Voya Financial, and Walmart joined RE100, pledging to source 100% of their electricity from renewable energy to reduce CO2 emissions and seize the business benefits.
RE100 is an ambitious global campaign led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, to engage, support and showcase influential businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity. When RE100 was launched at Climate Week NYC 2014, there were 13 original corporate partners. By 2015, 36 major businesses from around the world have joined the campaign, including: IKEA Group, Swiss Re, BT Group, Formula E, H&M, KPN, Nestlé, Philips, RELX Group, J. Safra Sarasin, Unilever and YOOX Group, UBS, and Royal DSM. Subsequent years saw more businesses join the campaign.
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Committee Members of Renewable Energy plan
Members Name
Chair/Solar Loan Project Leader Seamus Fizgerald
Member Tom Murphy
Member Anne Comeau
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While the implementation of the Paris Agreement or the Clean Power Plan could strengthen and quicken the uptake of clean energy, prices have dropped so low that adoption is now increasingly based on economics, according to a new report from the DOE, 2015 Revolution… Now. The chart above tracks those reductions in price by category.
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The Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project (EESP) is an all volunteer group - and a partner of the Overhead Project, a 501(c)3 non profit group.(EIN 46-4457047). Donations to EESP are tax deductible under IRS rules.*
Use the button above to donate via a secure PayPal link. You may donate directly via check: Make checks payable to the Overhead Project, Inc./EESP Partnership. Mailing address: Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project; Unit 1E; 1516 W. Thorndale Ave; Chicago, IL 60660. Thank You! *Check with your accountant if you have any questions. |
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