While we can’t control what goes on in Washington, we can influence what we do locally. We need to keep working on the climate in our own community.

• Get Engaged
• Library Climate Talk
• Greening Your Holidays
• Keeping the Lights On
• Focus on Hudson Light & Power

Buy holiday foods from local small businesses and farmers markets

Ask for items to be placed in recyclable cardboard boxes, paper bags, or reusable shopping totes. Compost leftovers, or provide take-out boxes for your guests, to reduce the amount of food that winds up in the trash.

Minimize online purchasing

Items ordered online are flown, trucked, and/or mailed to get to your home, adding to overall carbon emissions. Instead, purchase gifts from local stores, or give tickets to an event, museum memberships, and other educational and fun experiences that will make good memories.

Ask family and friends what they want and need

Asking ahead of time ensures gifts will be enjoyed and prevents them from winding up in a landfill or sitting unused in a closet.

Don’t forget to donate to your favorite charity

Whether it’s items like clothes, furniture, toys, food, or money, donations to local charities help them help others in need.

Check out this online site to further help you green your holidays:

In the country as a whole, there is a boom in the construction of new sources of clean electricity, largely solar and wind, along with new transmission lines to enable the electricity to be delivered to where it will be used. In Massachusetts, we see the build out of offshore wind and distributed solar installations. Some of this is a result of federal and state programs which encourage these developments. But it is also due to the low cost of these new sources of electricity which are now less expensive than the traditional means of electric generation - coal, oil, and natural gas.

In Stow, our electricity is provided by Hudson Light & Power (HLPD) which serves both Hudson and Stow. You may be most familiar with HLPD because of their affordable electric rates. But there are other benefits including ongoing work and planning for our future electric requirements.

Justin Connell - General Manager Hudson Light & Power

Let’s talk about electrification. There are substantial efforts throughout the commonwealth and beyond to decarbonize our energy usage, particularly through electrification. In our case, electrification encompasses the switching from fossil fuels to electricity for heating our homes, powering our vehicles, and cooking our food, among many other areas.

As society navigates the path of electrification, we at Hudson Light and Power are holistically and systematically preparing for the transition from a supply, demand, and delivery infrastructure perspective. Today, Hudson Light and Power has among the lowest electric rates in the state with an exceptionally clean power supply power portfolio coupled with great reliability. However, with forecasted increases in demand we must ensure that we continue to serve our communities especially as electricity becomes more and more essential in our everyday lives.

Hudson Light and Power incentivizes electric appliances, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers to support the energy transition. With as much importance, the Department forecasts demand growth so that we can continue to enhance both the capacity and reliability of our electric distribution system.



Part of our ongoing efforts include an expansion of the main substation behind our offices on Forest Avenue in Hudson. Hudson Light and Power is currently constructing and interconnecting an additional underground high voltage transmission cable supply to our substation to supplement our two existing high voltage transmission supply lines. This project has been underway for more than a decade is part of a greater effort to improve the reliability of the Greater Boston area. Not only will this increase Hudson Light and Power’s entire utility supply capacity, but the fact that this new transmission is both underground and from a separate upstream substation will significantly improve our system reliability and resiliency. Come learn more about what Hudson Light and Power is with a discussion with the new General Manager at the December Climate talk.