Patrick says Healey is blocking state's renewable energy growth -Cape Wind

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http://www.capecodtoday.com/news506.htm

Democratic candidate for Governor Deval Patrick called on Lt. Governor Kerry Healey yesterday to listen to energy experts in her own administration and drop her opposition to Cape Wind.

Patrick said, “Opposing Cape Wind after all the preliminary environmental reviews say, on balance, it would be good for our state is just the kind of politics as usual voters are tired of. Cape Wind will mean cleaner air and more jobs from clean industry,” Patrick said. “If we get Cape Wind right, Massachusetts can incubate a new industry and become a world leader in renewable energy.”

Deval Patrick, the Democratic candidate for Governor, made his remarks in Marlboro after touring the Evergreen Solar Company accompanied by Congressman James McGovern. Evergreen Solar is a manufacturing company that makes solar cells and innovative solar “ribbons” that are targeted toward the residential energy market.

Patrick's challenge came on the same week that Selectmen in Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard voted to require all new homes in the town larger than 2,100 square feet to have solar panels or wind turbines as part of their construction.

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1. Interesting...

Selectmen in Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard voted to require all new homes in the town larger than 2,100 square feet to have solar panels or wind turbines as part of their construction.

That's a new one. Is anybody else trying this?

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2. CA

CA put a requirement on % of new construction to have solar, IIRC. They also require that all lighting in new buildings use pin sockets that can only take CF bulbs, and lots of other stuff of which I am no doubt unaware.

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3. Sorry, I meant the wind turbines part... nt