The Reading Energy Board (REB) is delighted to announce that Reading was awarded a $267,000 zero-match grant from the state Municipal Energy Resilience Program (MERP)! These funds will pay for weatherization, heat pumps for efficient heating and cooling, and enable other improvements in the energy efficiency and air quality at the Library, Food Shelf, Town Hall and Firehouse.
Want to know more? Come to the next REB meeting, to be held on Zoom Wednesday January 23rd, at 7 PM.
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We've also entered the 2025 home weatherization season. Want your house weatherized by our volunteer weatherization team? Want to pay it forward as a past recipient of weatherization help from REB? Or maybe you want to learn how to weatherize your own home while helping your neighbor save money on energy bills? Or heck, maybe you just want to join for the homemade blueberry muffins and pastries that often show up the morning of the job? Those are ALL good reasons to join us when we next weatherize a resident's home. Email us at readingenergyboard@gmail.com to let us know you are in!
Finally, did you notice that today the sun rose 1 minute earlier and set 1 minute later than it did yesterday? By January 31, we will see 24 minutes more daylight than we did today. And with more daylight comes….more electricity from our town owned solar array! 713 kWhr generated in these first 9 days of January (and ~17,000 kWhr since late August, when the array was turned on). Check out your latest GMP bill to put that in context. Want to know more about solar? Again…come join us! The future is bright!
Exciting things are happening in the energy space in Reading! We need some new faces to help keep all this moving. If you like to have fun, if you care about affordable energy or climate, if you have decided 2025 is your year to take some action to help move toward a brighter future…come join us! We'd love to have you on the team.
Jan 13, 2025, 5:30 to 5:30 PM
Fall Prevention Tai Chi at Springfield LibraryJan 15, 2025, 12:30 to 1:30 PM
Thrive Thrift Store Donation DriveJan 18, 2025, 9 AM to 4 PM