Each year, Mass Energy Consumers Alliance holds an annual meeting and dinner to recognize organizations that have contributed to making energy more affordable and environmentally sustainable in Massachusetts. This year’s meeting, its 30th Anniversary, will be held on Tuesday, December 4th at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston.

Somewhat ironically, the meeting had to be postponed from its original date because of Hurricane Sandy. But that means another opportunity to participate in this event. This year’s event features:

• A three-course dinner, featuring locally-sourced food
• A keynote address by Secretary Richard Sullivan, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
• Silent Auction
• Awards Presentations

This year, Mass Energy will recognize:

• Cape Wind – (finally) poised to become America’s first offshore wind farm. It will become a major contributor to the Commonwealth’s clean energy and climate goals.
• Renew Boston – Mayor Thomas Menino’s partnership with NSTAR, National Grid, Mass Energy, Next Step Living, and Action for Boston for Community Development (ABCD), which reached over 15,000 Boston households and resulted in approximately 8,000 home energy assessments. Approximately 2,200 median income households have completed weatherization services under the Renew Boston no-cost offer.
• Scituate Wind and the Town of Scituate – a public/private partnership that installed a 1.5 megawatt wind turbine on public land with significant public benefits and community support.
• Equity Industrial Partners and the City of Gloucester – a public/private partnership that will soon be producing clean energy from two wind turbines in Gloucester. The two 1.5 megawatt turbine are expected to sell about 10,000 megawatt hours in net metering credits to the City of a Gloucester, roughly equivalent to the City’s municipal energy needs.

Tickets to Mass Energy’s 30th Anniversary Dinner are $30 per person and are available here.

Mass Energy Consumers Alliance is a non-profit organization working to make energy more affordable and environmentally sustainable. Its Discount Heating Oil Service now serves 15,000 members, and its Green Power programs, provides green electricity from local renewable sources to 7,000 members strong. Its charitable programs provide heating assistance to those most in need.