Thank you for your interest in Acadia Center and our continuing progress toward smarter energy policies. Read on for some highlights from the past month.
Community solar is a bold step toward a modernized, distributed grid, and in late July Acadia Center experts attended a celebration of NRG Home Solar's new 1.1 megawatt facility in Freetown, MA.
At the end of July Acadia Center released the report "
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: A Model Program for the Power Sector," showing that RGGI has reduced emissions, lowered electricity prices, and improved the economy in participating states.
The EPA's recently-released Clean Power Plan also recognized these successes and identified RGGI as a model program.
Earlier this year Acadia Center released studies analyzing the value of solar power in Connecticut and Massachusetts; in July, it was Rhode Island's turn. Acadia Center experts found that the value of solar to the Rhode Island grid ranges from 19 to 25 cents/kWh, with additional societal values of 7 cents/kWh. Acadia Center also released a Value of Solar report for Vermont. See the press release here.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced at the beginning of July that her office would lead a study of New England's energy needs. The analysis will evaluate options for cost-effectively meeting demand for electricity and natural gas while at the same time achieving necessary reductions in carbon pollution, and the Attorney General's office has called for restraint in certifying new pipeline capacity contracts until the results of the analysis are available. Acadia Center will serve as advisors to the study.
Read More: Acadia Center experts wrote a three-part guest column series published in CommonWealth Magazine in June analyzing the potential negative effects of increasing New England's natural gas capacity.
Read More: A proposed pipeline could cost ratepayers billions of dollars, and Acadia Center and others are weighing in on the public conversation.
Top Rating from Charity Navigator
Acadia Center has earned Charity Navigator's top four-star rating for nine years
in a row, and this year we earned our highest rating yet--99.35 out of 100.00--with a perfect score for Accountability & Transparency. Only 5% of the organizations rated by Charity Navigator have received at least five onsecutive four-star evaluations, indicating that Acadia Center outperforms most other charities in America. Acadia Center is the second-highest-rated charity in the Environmental Protection and Conservation category as well as a selected charity worth watching. See the details of our score and track record on Acadia Center's profile page.
Take advantage of one of the easiest and most convenient ways to support Acadia Center. You can make a gift to Acadia Center by payroll contribution through EarthShare New England's workplace giving program at numerous private companies, many state and municipal government organizations, and in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), by selecting CFC #33903 on your pledge form.
Contributions to EarthShare New England support a broad range of charities committed to protecting public health and our air, land, water, and wildlife.
Acadia Center is a non-profit, research and advocacy organization committed to advancing the clean energy future. Acadia Center is at the forefront of efforts to build clean, low-carbon and consumer-friendly economies.
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