Special Bd. of Aldermen — 08/06/2019 Page 6
We have so far constructed over 8,000 solar energy systems and complimentary technologies as well to enable
buildings, municipalities, private homes to be non-reliant on fossil fuels and energy, self-sufficient instead. Our
Mission is to help this region, New Hampshire is where we do about half of our business. We began up in
Maine, we do also work in Massachusetts as of the last 2 years. Our Mission is to help our communities make
the transition to self-reliance, to clean renewable energy and to protect the things we value; clean air, clean
water, clean land in the process. We will focus naturally on solar at this point but any chance we get to educate
folks around the stead of complementary technologies that do in fact make it possible for individuals but also
communities to lessen their reliance on imported energy through some of these complimentary technologies.
A couple of the non-profits and municipalities we have been honored to work with and with and | would point out
just across town from here, the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter was one of our first local projects two years
ago. | am very proud to be helping them save money through this purchase agreement which | will describe in a
little more detail ina moment. On the commercial side we also work with a number of good businesses in New
Hampshire and in the region. We can go into detail if you’d like on other municipal projects that we’ve done but
just a couple of examples here in New Hampshire which are similar in scale or type of technology to what we
are proposing for Nashua. Again we are happy to provide details and references if you'd like.
Finally we were proud two weeks ago to be named again for the third consecutive year the Number One Solar
Installer in New England and we have received some other honors. We are part of a growing community with
close to 1,000 solar jobs in the State. Many good contractors that we consider partners and we do expect in the
coming years to see many more added as well.
| am going to give a quick overview of how we settled on the two recommended sites for 2019. Ask James who
runs our construction end of the business, actually building the systems to provide a little bit more detail and
answer technical questions you may have about the types of installations and then I'll return to the all-important
financials for this proposal.
As you heard from the Mayor and from Deb there are a lot of City rooftops that are potential candidates for solar
down the road. | am not zooming in all of them here by any means but three main areas that we focused on
with a starting list at the outset of the PPA several months ago of 24 city properties clustered in downtown
Nashua, out at the Waste Water Treatment Plan and at the DPW and Transit Garages. We did do careful
assessments of 10 of the initial 24 after doing some initial assessments of all 24. The two highlighted are the
ones that we are recommending at this point. But just for your interest to give a sense, at the top the first five
are what we defined as the maximum value opportunities.
These are projects with fairly substantial scale, economy of scale as the Mayor mentioned do certainly matter in
terms of the economics of these projects. But through an extensive vetting process over several months, we did
narrow down to these two projects which again is not to say that we wouldn’t love to see Nashua with us or
other solar companies install on many other roofs. But in many cases roof age was a concern as much as we
can put panels on a 15 and 20 year old roof and sometimes if the owner is preparing through some resealing of
seams that does make sense, but generally we don’t recommend it on roofs of that age. We would rather wait
until they are replaced, so that was the primary reason why these projects, the ones not highlighted were
excluded from the portfolio, but we can provide more detail if you wish on others.
Needless to say there is a lot of opportunity and should the City determine after a first wave that it makes sense
to add, we certainly would love to see the City do so with us or with other contractors. Let me turn over to
James to provide a little more detail on the two highlighted projects. We can also speak to Conway if you wish
although we felt it appropriate to focus on the two city-owned buildings for tonight.
