The Medfield Energy Committee meeting last night had a lengthy and meaty report from John Nunnari of the Building Committee on the new garage and the planned public safety building. The Medfield Energy Committee members were especially interested in the opportunities to provide input into the public safety building, which is still in the planning stages. The garage was already in the construction document phase before town committees began to review it, so that changes could mainly only economically be made only at the edges.
The Medfield Energy Committee had a long discussion of town solar PV installations. Norfolk was recently written up in the Globe as making $200,000 a year off its year old PV array on their closed landfill. Mike Sullivan wants to wait another seven years before doing an array on our closed landfill as then it will be 30 years since its closure and will be deemed officially closed. The fear is that before that time the DEP may require us to cap it anew. The Medfield Energy Committee chair, Marie Zack Nolan questioned whether we should invest in a consultant report of our landfillt o determine whether it has been propely closed, so that we could go ahead with a PV array sooner.
The Waste Water Treatment Plant site will be available in about a year, after the DPW gets into their new garage, and the consensus was that it made sense to start the planning for a PV array on that site now.
Charlie Kellner, the Business Manage for the schools reported on the energy use reductions for the schools from 2008 to 2012. The decreases in energy use ranged by school from about 20% (Wheelock) to three in the 30%’s range to 74% (MHS, but Charlie said because of the construction it was not a good measure for the MHS).
There was consensus that the Town of Medfield should become a Green Community.
The Grist Mill hopes to become the only water wheel generated electricity on the grid.
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