Mass. Governor Deval Patrick kicks off major solar project, using PowerDash monitoring

Boston Community Capital (BCC), along with Governor Deval L. Patrick and Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons, hosted a press conference today to officially "flip the switch" on BCC’s Solar Energy Advantage Program.

The Solar Energy Advantage Program is installing 5,000 rooftop solar panels at five affordable housing facilities serving 3,000 residents across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is the first phase of BCC’s Energy Advantage Program, established to finance energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental improvements for affordable housing. Once construction is complete, the solar installations in Phase I will provide one megawatt of solar photovoltaic capacity and annually will generate almost a million kilowatt hours of clean, renewable electricity. That’s an increase of roughly 17% in Massachusetts’s solar capacity.

PowerDash was selected to provide the monitoring and reporting services for the project. The PowerDash solution for this project involves a sophisticated combination of both local and remote wireless communication, simplifying both initial installation and ongoing maintenance of the monitoring systems.

"I congratulate Boston Community Capital and its partners for finding a way to bring clean, renewable solar power to the residents of Washington Elms and affordable housing developments across the state" said Governor Deval Patrick. "Our clean energy future is for all of us, and efforts like this one bring us all one step closer to making it a reality."