Colebrook Energy Committee Minutes Oct 14, 2009
In Attendance: Kevin McKinnon, April Hyde, Brian LaPerle, Larry Rappaport, Julie Moran
Colebrook Energy Committee Meeting: 7:05-7:25
J Moran announced that the town Select Board selected a name for the town committee, which is now the "Colebrook Energy Committee". Select board member M Ouillette asked for the committee to create Bylaws and to have term limits. The committee agreed to create Bylaws after the Expo is over, but did not agree that term limits were needed on a committee, and did not agree to do so.
Committee requests Select Board to add April Hyde to this committee at next Select Board meeting.
CDHFFC subcommittee Report from Dick Harris:
The town has received a grant from the Tillotson Fund for a $25,000 pre-feasibility study, and so the subcommittee is working on the RFP. They will travel to Lancaster on Friday to meet with several members of the District Heating Task Force who have volunteered to help with the process, to write the RFP.
Going forward, they will get proposals to do the pre-feasibility study. Once a proposal is accepted and that study is done, it will give them insight as to the feasibility of a District Heating system for the town. If it is feasible, then an RFP will go out for a Feasibility Study which will determine the options available to the town, including the possibility of adding a pellet plant. Much discussion ensued about the pellet plant, especially about the private/public partnership, and the control of the cost of pellets.
Once a system is chosen, it would need Town approval at the Annual meeting. Then it would go out to bid. Eventually, the committee would like to see a training facility at the site, because of the need to train others in the nation about district heating systems.
D Harris passed around pamphlets from Linka, a Danish company that would like to do a project in the US. This company was at Plymouth State University during a demonstration of their CHP plant, which they want to convert to biofuel. L Rappaport asked if they were ASME Certified because that process takes two years to go through, and therefore costs more to put in.
The meeting closed at 7:25
Notes taken and Recorded by Julie Moran//
Notes approved at Feb 11 meeting. JM
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